designers don't wear design
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Steve Jobs has it all nailed down. You wear the same thing each day. No guess work, no over dressing, no under dressing.
I usually wear a t-shirt, a pair of jeans and my vans/new balance/oakleys to work each day, and on warm days, I wear shorts. If I have a client meeting, I wear a nice collared shirt, jeans or khakis.
I totally understand where some people say that designers should look the part in a big corporate meeting, and that is very true, but honestly, I don’t care to spend my hard earned cash on designer t-shirts and foo foo labels. Yeah I have a really really nice suit (its the one thing I did go overboard on) but I would much rather spend the cash on my wife to look good, and not me.
As for the correlation of me not wearing haute couture and not knowing how to design...that’s horse shit. If I buy a $12 gap t-shirt vs. a $60 Diesel t-shirt that only means that I have $48 to spend on a taco dinner for myself and friends, or a book on Gerhard Richter or skateboard parts. Being penny wise doesn’t mean that you are design foolish.