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Luckily I do not have to buy shoes anymore, because I design them! I am off tour, so I can dive in and create the shoes that I want for my line. But okay, I did buy a pair of vintage combat boots because they were so beaten up - I had to have them.

When we were in the design studio I always was pretending like I was in a closet asking my friend before I step out into the world what do I look like? And everybody wants that honest friend before they go and go to dinner or go to an event.

I am extremely involved in the design process of both my brands, Winter Kate and House of Harlow 1960.

What I have learned from different designers is that it is key to be true to who you are and your vision. That is always been my line of thinking. Working through the whole design process, I do not want to create something I wouldn't be proud to wear.

I learn my lines while on the golf course. I try to do two or three things at once. I have ideas for books all the time, I have ideas for paintings all the time, and I write them all down. I take my sketchpad and my iPad, which I design on, and I do sit down and do specific tasks at specific times.

The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there is a single numeric average. But if it is a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that is crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share.

The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena.

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

I am opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I do not waver.

There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.

To be able to design for the plus-sized consumer, for me, that is just beyond. It is a dream.

I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it is not a product it is an understanding of human nature.

I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.

If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.

God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.

I have never had anyone define purity. You probably can not define purity. Purity is to live according to original design.

I do like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.

I studied literature design and fashion design.