Olivier Theyskens famous quotes

In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.
-- Olivier Theyskens

#Fashion #Stores

I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.
-- Olivier Theyskens

#Fashion #Children #Clothes

When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.
-- Olivier Theyskens

#Boys #Moon #Doctors

I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.
-- Olivier Theyskens

#Vintage #Inspired #Designer

Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money.
-- Olivier Theyskens

#Fashion #House #Age

I didn't understand the advantages of staying active until I was about 27.
-- Olivier Theyskens

#Advantage #Active

What is funny is when you do a futuristic movie, you immediately get to be fashionable because you're creating something that doesn't exist.
-- Olivier Theyskens

#Creating #Fashionable #Futuristic

I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.
-- Olivier Theyskens

#School #Feelings #Losing

The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.
-- Olivier Theyskens

#Shoes #Looks #Use

People who don't know me sometimes call me 'Mademoiselle.'
-- Olivier Theyskens

#People #Sometimes #Call Me

We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.
-- Olivier Theyskens

#Ideas #People #Accepted

I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
-- Olivier Theyskens

#New York #Home #Energy

I could live naked... I love it.
-- Olivier Theyskens

#Naked

I don't think couture will die. But it should have no pretension that it will conquer the world. It's not something that will disappear because all you need is a thread and a needle to start making something couture.
-- Olivier Theyskens

#Thinking #World #Needs

My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.
-- Olivier Theyskens

#Design #Intuition #Intellectual

As a designer, I'm not a guy that can be put in a niche.
-- Olivier Theyskens

#Guy #Niche #Designer

I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
-- Olivier Theyskens

#Cities #Littles #Stuff

I love to see what they [Michelle Obama and Kate Middleton] wear but I am not interested. It’s not natural. If you are a girl dressing up in the morning thinking about the whole world having a point of view on what you are wearing, it takes the pleasure out of getting dressed.
-- Olivier Theyskens

#Girl #Morning #Thinking

When I started at [Nina] Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.
-- Olivier Theyskens

#Girl #Next #Nina

Knitted fur is so modern and light, it makes this retro shape cool again.
-- Olivier Theyskens

#Light #Fur #Shapes

When the economy changes, it's not like you want to start eating bad-tasting chocolate.
-- Olivier Theyskens

#Chocolate #Want #Eating

Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic
-- Olivier Theyskens

#Fashion #Art #Believe

When Princess Diana got married, I was a very little kid, I think. I remember her dress, and I found the dress amazing when I was a kid.
-- Olivier Theyskens

#Princess #Kids #Thinking

With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.
-- Olivier Theyskens

#Thinking #Design #Modern

I think the relationship is very tenuous between fashion and art. Many designers have built relationships with artists, which is not something I personally did. But it's true, sometimes you see artists working for a designer or a brand on some specific project or taking care of their environment and making an amazing store.
-- Olivier Theyskens

#Fashion #Art #Thinking

I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.
-- Olivier Theyskens

#Inspiration #Mean #Ideas

I haven't made many wedding dresses. It's a dress very, very important for the girl; it's important to know the person, I believe, but at the same time it should be a shock to the person - the person should be shocked to be suddenly revealed. That's the work of a designer sometimes, to propose an ID of look.
-- Olivier Theyskens

#Girl #Believe #Important

The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence.
-- Olivier Theyskens

#People #Design #Way

Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal.
-- Olivier Theyskens

#Eye #Light #Rose

For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.
-- Olivier Theyskens

#Fashion #Thinking #Long

What is sure is that the satellite view of our world and its evolution is now a common reality.
-- Olivier Theyskens

#Reality #Views #Our World