Gianfranco Ferre famous quotes

As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.
-- Gianfranco Ferre

#Thinking #Design #Paper

The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process.
-- Gianfranco Ferre

#Cities #House #Design

The white blouse can be light and floating, impeccable and austere, sumptuous and all-enveloping, tight and close-fitting. It rises up to frame the face. It sculpts the body by transforming itself into a second skin. Imputed with glamour and poetry, freedom and impetuousness, the prim white shirt turns out to have a thousand identities…
-- Gianfranco Ferre

#Light #White #Identity

A fragrance is like a dress, an expression of personality. It can be both erotic or powerful, or both, but it always combines femininity and sensuality.
-- Gianfranco Ferre

#Powerful #Expression #Personality

A fragrance always combines femininity and sensuality.
-- Gianfranco Ferre

#Perfume #Sensuality #Femininity

Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.

I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.

…words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out--the silk is her life, her home, her safety--her food and drink too--and if it is attacked or pulled down, why, what can she do but make more, spin afresh, design anew….

Delete, delete, delete and at the end find the ‘core aspect of the design’

Because it is a national landmark, there is only one way to judge the Kennedy Center - against the established standard of progressive and innovative excellence in architectural design that this country is known and admired for internationally. Unfortunately, the Kennedy Center not only does not achieve this standard of innovative excellence; it also did not seek it. The architect opted for something ambiguously called 'timelessness' and produced meaninglessness. It is to the Washington manner born. Too bad, since there is so much of it.

Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.

Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?

A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.

This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.

I dont make notes for myself because I either lose them or they make no sense to me at all. I once found a piece of paper with the note: everything. Apparently I made a note to myself not to forget everything!