Fashion Quotes

We've been sold a concept of joy through advertising. It was somehow sold to us through a Gucci bag or something.

I am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.

Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later.

Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon.

Fashion is the healthiest motivation for losing weight.

Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman's jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with.

I love fashion, I love architecture and I love image making so if I can, I would put all these three in one pot.

Fashion designers are dictators of taste.

Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It's a way to communicate oneself.

Fashion is general. Style is individual.

To call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is ever wearable.

I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.

Modesty died when clothes were born.

We have this saying, Christy and I. We don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day.

So many people preach that they love fashion, but really it's what I live for!

My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman.

I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.

I do not believe there has ever been a name as important as Pierre Cardin in the general history of couture.

I wash with my own soap-wear my own perfume...got to bed on my own sheets... have my own food products. I live on me.

I think it's interesting to see how things come into and go out of fashion.

Fashion is above all an art of change.

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

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.

Buy less, choose well & do it yourself!

Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer.

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.

Fashion is only different skins for different flavours of you.

These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.

The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all.

Elegance is timeless. It withstands trend; It withstands the commercialization of what fashion and style have become.

Culture changes, fashions change, customs change. Great music is immortal.

Fashion breaks my heart.

Pure, intense emotions. It's not about design. It's about feelings.

When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don't get carried away-it's only dresses.

The fact is that even art is subject to fashion.

It’s easier to follow fashion than it is to have personal style.

Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don't care, that's a decision. There's something you're trying to say.

When I think about fashion I think women will never lose that appetite for fashion.

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

I adore artifice. I always have.

Fashion is always uncomfortable. When you get comfortable, you never get the look.

Fashion needs incredible women, alive, stimulating, with style like Diana Vreeland. She is the most. The way she talks expresses all her values.

I think [ fashion philosophy] it's about your smile and your smell.

You can never have too many friends.

I'd like to put on buckskins and a ponytail and go underwater with a reed, hiding from the Indians... To me, that's sexy!

Putting on a beautifully designed suit elevates my spirit, extols my sense of self, and helps define me as a man to whom details matter.

You just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text.

Fashion is a playground up until a certain age. But then you have to find your own signature and your own style.

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

To insist, even with Olympian assurance, that life appeared quite by chance and evolved in this fashion, is an unfounded supposition which I believe to be wrong and not in accordance with the facts.