As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm not an artist. I'm a fashion designer of clothes.
The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself as an 'artist' - I hate that word. The only way you could be 'arty' was as a fashion photographer, because it still had a certain amount of integrity involved.
I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.
I make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste.
I became a fashion designer by accident. I loved to make portrait drawings when I was a teenager, and from that came the interest in what people were wearing and why they were wearing it.
I always knew that I was an artist. I never expected to be able to make a living.
I am not an artist. I am a craftsman.
I don't like to treat a piece of clothing like an object of art because I don't consider myself an artist. I'm a designer.
If I hadn't been a designer, I'd have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery in order to support myself.
I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.