Elizabeth Hawes Quotes
Women want to wear what they do because of what goes on in their heads. Their size and shape have practically nothing to do with it.
It is impossible to be completely abstract about clothes because they have no life unless they are worn. They must fit onto a body or they do not exist.
No garment which distorts the shape and motion of the wearer is beautiful, nor s any garment beautiful which emphasizes more than one or at most two of your sexual characteristics.
There is no word in English for chic. Why should there be? Everything chic is by legend French. Perhaps everything chic is in reality French.
I don't know when the word fashion came into being, but it was an evil day. For thousands of years people got along with something called style and maybe, in another thousand, we'll go back to it.
One of the most fascinating things about the world of fashion is that practically no one knows who inhabits it or why it exists. There are a few people who know how it works, but they won't tell.
rule number one for all American women: You are to be seen and felt, but not heard. Listen and do as you are told and everything will be all right.
Style doesn't change every month or every year. It only changes as often as there is a real change in the point of view and lives of the people for whom it is produced.
The French legend is a very simple one. All really beautiful clothes are designed in the houses of the French couturiers and all women want those clothes.
Yesterday people were permitted to change things. They will be permitted to advocate changing them tomorrow. It is only dangerous to think of changing anything today.
If one is willing to have children, rhythm is probably the best method of contraception.
All one really requires for putting anything over is enough energy and resistance to keep on plugging the idea. Someone will eventually fall.
