Designer’s Quote of the Day

July 29, 2010 at 9:56 pm 1 comment

Embrace the crooked zipper!

Kristen Simms, one of the contestants on Season 8 of Project Runway, gave this advice to designers on tonight’s episode. I love it! Sometimes it is okay to go with your mistakes and use them in your design.

I had a wonderful design day. You know that moment after you have worked up your sketch, figured out your dimensions, done all the math, crocheted the piece, then with bated breath you seam it all together and it comes out perfectly, just as you had originally envisioned. You finally breathe a sigh of relief and then your heart mounts up with joy and excitement. Well, that happened to me today and I am so thrilled (actually I’m doing the happy dance!). I LOVE my current design. I can not wait to share it with the world. A part of me, though, does wonder what Tim Gun, the mentor on Project Runway, would say about it?