Quotes from Phoebe Philo


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The older I get, and the more collections I do, the more I'm driven by real style and beauty. My aim is to reveal and not to display women.


There is absolutely a gap in the market for thirty something women and, the more I look at it, the more I feel there needs to be a sense of ease and choice.


My mother used to dress me in quite good-taste clothes, and I really wanted things that were sparkly and spangly and trashy and nasty. I don't know if I ever chose fashion; it was just there in me.


I'm happy to do interviews from time to time, but I don't find them that necessary - and that hasn't seemed to have affected people's understanding of our work.


Women should have choices, and women should feel good in what they wear.


Things have to sell, of course, but if I don't want to put bags on the runway, we don't put bags on the runway. I have complete creative control.


My relationship with fashion is playful and very expressive of what I'm feeling at the time.


It's been a bit tricky trying to establish a 'designer' profile and not a designer-cum-girl-around-town.


I was very, very eager to work. It's just the way I am.


I just have to be very, very organised.


I have an innate fear of fame. I've never thought being famous looked like such a good place to be. I love being incognito.


I feel very much that I am a human being, with human limitations, and I need to respect that.


I don't know whether that comes from having a family - having something very important at home that needed to be protected.


When I was deciding whether or not to take the job at Celine, I didn't really look at the history of the house. I had other offers to come back, but they weren't right, or they wouldn't let me stay in London, which was non-negotiable.


My favourite eras for styles are still the 70s and 40s, and there will be a few iconic pieces to build the wardrobe around, like there were at Chloe, but I want there to be a feel of mix-and-match.


I never had a massive desire to buy clothes. I liked to customise the clothes I already had or was given when I was younger. If I didn't like them that much, I made them how I wanted them to be.


I'm not interested in clothes that just convey a certain look or fashion. Clothes for me have always been a form of self-expression.


I'm just not very interested in decoration.


I try not to intellectualise what I do.


I don't believe in making fashion difficult.