A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials.
Interpretation
A challenging economy can foster creativity by forcing designers to innovate with limited resources.
Diane Von Furstenberg suggests that tough economic times can actually benefit the design world by merging necessity with functionality. When resources are scarce, designers are motivated to think outside the box, leading to creative solutions and innovative designs that may not have emerged in more affluent circumstances.
In practice
In a discussion about resilience in design during economic downturns.
There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!
The little black dress is the true friend...she travels with you...is patient and constant...you go to her when you don't know where else to go and she is ALWAYS reliable and timeless.
One of the most important things about fashion is to dress as well as you can, look as attractive as you can, and at the same time be comfortable with yourself. Be easy about your clothes; forget about them.
All women are strong. My mother survived Auschwitz, and fear wasn't an option when we were growing up. If we were afraid of the dark, we were put into the closet until we weren't.
You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.
I design for the woman who loves being a woman.
Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally.
But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.
What do I care if you are good? Be beautiful! and be sad!
An awful lot of storytelling isn't really about making people understand - it's about making people care.
Finding a photograph is often like picking up a piece from a jigsaw-puzzle box with the cover missing. Thereβs no sense of the whole. Each image is a mysterious part of something not yet revealed.
If I were able to write, I probably would. But movies have given me a part of my life where I can express feelings and bring convictions to an audience as if I could write. So I made 'Gandhi' about human relations, prejudice and the empire. In 'Cry Freedom' I expressed my horror and disgust about apartheid.
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