Hussein Chalayan Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Technology is the only means through which you touch on new things.”
-- Hussein Chalayan

#Mean #Technology
“I think the experience of feeling isolated, of not fitting in, creates the urge to explore.”
-- Hussein Chalayan

#Thinking #Feelings #Fitting
“I have an interest in architecture, although more theoretically than anything else. I think architecture tries to understand what the body wants to occupy, not the body itself.”
-- Hussein Chalayan

#Thinking #Trying #Architecture
“My interest in fashion came from my interest in the body as a central cultural figure, not from admiring other designers - but of course I love Mason Martin Margiela, and I love Sybilla.”
-- Hussein Chalayan

#Fashion #Designer #Admiring
“I wish we could edit our lives, be more selective with whom we spend time and what we spend our money on. To appreciate more what we all have - we appreciate things more when we lose them.”
-- Hussein Chalayan

#Appreciate #Wish #Spend Time
“I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture.”
-- Hussein Chalayan

#Creative #Parent #Architecture
“My furniture is banal and my house is pretty empty. The hardest thing to find is a sofa that is comfortable and looks good. The ones I like are never comfortable.”
-- Hussein Chalayan

#House #Empty
“It's not always important to do a "show," but a live element always works better for me, unless I am making a film that goes beyond the clothes.”
-- Hussein Chalayan

#Important #Film
“London scene consists of mostly foreigners. We see ourselves as British in many ways, but not English.”
-- Hussein Chalayan

#Scene
“I came to London when I was a year and a half for four years. Since then I have been back and forth. I do mostly feel like a Londoner: I enjoy the Angle-Saxon acceptance of difference and I feel it's more of an integrated society than most places. But this is in London, not the rest of the UK.”
-- Hussein Chalayan

#Acceptance #Enjoy #Integrated
“Istanbul is one of the most incredible cities in the world, and a must - see as much as London, Paris, or New York. It's the past, present, and future, and a city where you never know what will happen from one minute to the next. It's also a melting pot of so many cultures from that region which is so often homogenized by the nation-state.”
-- Hussein Chalayan

#Past #Culture #World

Hussein Chalayan Quote Technology Is The Only Means Through Which You Touch On

Hussein Chalayan Quote Technology Is The Only Means Through Which You Touch On

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