I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand.

It's not the bullet that kills you, it's the hole.

For most of us, design is invisible. Until it fails

A shoe has so much more to offer than just to walk.

You can solve all the world's problems in a garden.

I like to find areas where design has not yet gone.

I believe that I am a hat designer, not a milliner.

Sustainability takes forever. And that's the point.

Design is inherently optimistic. That is its power.

Men are like bulls. They cannot resist the red sole.

Really good shoes have to seduce both men and women.

You can't come up with ideas if you don't see first.

Content is often the reason users come to your site.

You want stealth? Be a rogue in 'World of Warcraft'.

I wasn't into pop music, even at a really young age.

If I run, I'm much healthier - I run on a treadmill.

The role of art in society differs for every artist.

Golf is not a fair game, so why build a course fair?

How a hat makes you feel is what a hat is all about.

If you do what you love, it is the best way to relax.

I buy Dries van Noten shoes. I love his clothes, too.

The shoe is very much an X-ray of social comportment.

There are 9 rejected ideas for every idea that works.

There is a voice, and there is a DNA to how I design.

I admire anyone that follows the road less travelled.

Design is not art. Design is utilitarian, art is not.

I grew up in a little village in the west of Ireland.

One sits more comfortably on a colour that one likes.

It is much easier to drive without having an accident.

I personally use the web as an Intelligence Amplifier.

Designing my shoes, I'm thinking timeless. Not trendy.

Do I make fashion mistakes? Yes, but I won't say what.

All of the worlds problems can be solved in the garden

Unless ideas are massaged into reality they evaporate.

I'm not worried. Good luck, ... the center of gravity.

Every day, I like to make hats that make people dream.

Just throw me in my coffin now with these earrings on.

I actually have more shoes than anyone will ever know.

Learning by doing is the only way I know how to learn.

I think the job of an original designer is to inspire.

I didn't even know Vogue existed when I was growing up.

I listen to my stomach. It tells me when I am starving.

We have to control our battery development and testing.

Playing dress up begins at age 5 and never really ends.

Microsoft shoots for the moon. Sony shoots for the sun.

If you can design one thing, you can design everything.

Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.

I believe in the balance between dreaming and building.

To do something innovative means that you reject reason.

Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great.

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