Daily Inspiration Quote by Isaac Mizrahi

Design, in Isaac Mizrahi's telling, is a stubbornly visual argument: it refuses to be reduced to the neat little narratives we use to sell everything else. "You can't really get it until you see it" doubles as a boast and a defense. A boast, because it elevates the designer's authority over the armchair critic or the client who wants to debate taste in the abstract. A defense, because it lets fashion off the hook from over-explaining itself in an industry that constantly demands justification: Why this hem? Why that silhouette? Why now?

Mizrahi came up in a moment when fashion was becoming mass media - runway shows turning into television-friendly spectacle, designers becoming personalities, and clothes becoming content. In that context, the line reads like a refusal of pure talk. It pushes back against the culture of pre-judgment: the mood board pitches, the trend forecasts, the think pieces that want the point before the garment exists.

The subtext is also about risk. Design is a wager that only pays out in the reveal, when fabric, movement, and proportion finally cohere on a body. Until then, you're asking people to trust an intuition they can't yet access. Mizrahi's sentence flatters the eye as the ultimate judge, but it also exposes the vulnerability of making something new: you can explain it perfectly and still fail to make it land. Seeing isn't just believing; in fashion, it's the only receipt that counts.