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As a designer, I think you just have to make sure you know what you want and stay true to it. You need to have conviction and really just want to make people think in regards to doing interesting things.

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.

I think a good designer can exist everywhere and anywhere and all the time. It's all about being good, and I think that our job basically is to make women and men look good.

As a designer, design director or any creative person, you have to hire great people, support them and make them feel comfortable so they can contribute and give you their best.

As a designer, you have to solve a lot of problems. Even though people are wearing clothes that are supposed to look beautiful, they'll have to do all kinds of things.

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.

I would tell any aspiring designer to take the time to experience everything they can to really get a feel for what direction they want to go in. And most importantly, let your passion and your gut lead you.