Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements yet these are in truth very often owing not so much to design as chance.
To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.
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When I design and wonder what the point is I think of someone having a bad time in their life. Maybe they are sad and they wake up and put on something I have made and it makes them feel just a bit better. So in that sense fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But only a little.