Fashion Quotations | Page 4

You can't just come from Kansas, go into fashion and be all naive. The fashion world is very different to where I'm from.

Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.

I think the music comes first, then comes the fashion, and thus, the lifestyle. I believe it starts with music, and then the person delivering it delivers the lifestyle, the fashion. Madonna is a great example of that.

More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but thats more like a spice.

We are optimistic, but we are optimistic in a cautious fashion.

But again, I put in my time with Marvel and DC so there was that period of my life of trying to learn how to draw and tell stories in a proper fashion.

I've never been in love with fashion, actually; trends and catwalks don't interest me. I love clothes; I love them historically and currently. They represent a spirit of the times and the zeitgeist.

I'm not a slave to fashion; I'm into exercising my individuality.

I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.

I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

Fashion isn't something I madly follow. I tend just to wear what I like and what fits me well.

Fashion is a funny thing to talk about. I think what you wear is definitely an extension of you, but I also think it's totally arbitrary.

I have a showroom where we experiment with twelve cakes. We develop sketches and ideas for cakes for the next season. We work with the top fashion designers to see what type of lace they are using or work with the top florist for us to be able to make various sugar roses or flowers.

If taking one-self seriously as a woman means committing to a life of grooming, pumicing, pruning and polishing one's exterior for the benefit of onlookers, then I may as well leave my unwieldy rucksack to the top of a bleak Scottish hill and make my home there under a stone, where I'll fashion shoes out of mud and clothes out of leaves.

I'm involved in music and fashion a lot more than I used to be, so my style has definitely changed - for the better, of course. It's given me greater insight into what colours work, what looks good on camera, and what I feel comfortable in.

Fashion is not always about what's new, it's also about what's good. And I think if you need to see what's good, you have to be there.

Fashion is about owning whatever you're wearing, regardless of if it's a high fashion statement or not.

I don't think about fashion or trends - I've never really been that kind of person.

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

Fashion is about what you look like, which translates to what you would like to be like.

The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.

History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion.

The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.

I'm not an elitist. I hate the fashion industry sometimes because it becomes so focused on the elite.

I decided if it was going to be a mistake to come to New York and try and make a career in fashion, then it was going to be my mistake... But the American dream is real. I'm living it.

I definitely like clothes as much as the next girl, just not to the extent of people who work in the fashion industry.

I sing about UFOs and extraterrestrials, and so I designed a UFO fashion. It includes science-fiction bikinis and Bermuda Triangle shorts.

I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.

Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs.

Fashion people think that the careful Nice companies are boring beyond measure. (Nice people think fashionistas look silly and should Get A Life).

There's such a huge link with fashion, with front covers of magazines and selling products, but that's not what you go into the job for, and yet you're persuaded that's what you have to do to create the opportunities for yourself.

I think the moment that I'm very proud of is building a business without using animals. And, hopefully, changing people's perception of how you can do luxury fashion.

An evening dress that reveals a woman's ankles while walking is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen.

When I fell into modeling, because I wanted to work in fashion. I wanted to do styling or make-up. I ended getting picked up to be a model instead during my work experience.

Fashion should be something that in the morning, when you open your window, you say, 'Oh fantastic, sun!' Then you take your shower, you say, 'OK fantastic, which colour I wear today because I feel happy?' This should be fashion.

I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology.

It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves - motifs of rebellion.

I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.

I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.

At the end of the week, it's nice to just hang out in a pair of jeans and let my hair down. I need a break from all that fashion!

I was ten years old when my first 'Vogue' cover sang me its siren call and dashed me against the treacherous rocks of fashion obsession.

The bedrock nature of space and time and the unification of cosmos and quantum are surely among science's great 'open frontiers.' These are parts of the intellectual map where we're still groping for the truth - where, in the fashion of ancient cartographers, we must still inscribe 'here be dragons.'

Any style that Nike makes in all black, shoe, sweatshirt, onesie, doesn't matter, I pretty much need to have.

Mostly I'm writing about people, so I feel constrained to take with me my view of people, my curiosity about how people choose the things they do and why they come to certain decisions in a certain fashion and all the things that drive most writers.

I think fashion is a lot of fun. I love clothes. More than fashion or brand labels, I love design. I love the thought that people put into clothes. I love when clothes make cultural statements and I think personal style is really cool. I also freely recognize that fashion should be a hobby.

I really like fashion, but I'm not a fashionista by any means.

Women often don't want to admit that they like fashion. And yet fashion enthralls everyone, from the taxi driver to the mega-intellectual. I have often asked myself why this is. I don't know the answer.

If I see a fashion show with literal influences, it doesn't make me think any more. It doesn't make me dream.

May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.

Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh.

Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.

The '60s are my favorite decade - with the Cold War, the women's movement. And then there's the music, the fashion, the clothes, the hair.

I studied fashion at the London College of Fashion. I get involved in it as part of my own styling, so if I wasn't a pop star maybe a fashion buyer or a stylist.

I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe it's more segregated between those different disciplines I think.

Being one step ahead of a fashion trend is not so important to me. What matters is to always forge ahead.

As a Business Ambassador, I am delighted to help both new and established British designers receive the recognition they deserve in the global fashion arena.

I think fashion is repulsive. The whole idea that someone else can make clothing that is supposed to be in style and make other people look good is ridiculous. It sickens me to think that there is an industry that plays to the low self-esteem of the general public. I would like the fashion industry to collapse.

When I started out in fashion, everything had to be very structured and tight and controlling, and now I'm getting to a point where I think - I could wear a great big parka, that could be quite fabulous. I haven't always got to show off my size, show off my shape. It's a turning point for me.

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept

The fashion world is much more ephemeral than the film industry and moves at a faster pace, and it's got even more frenetic since the Nineties; more paparazzi hanging about and it seems to me there are even more fashion magazines.

The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.

Fashion has always been a repetition of ideas, but what makes it new is the way you put it together.

Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.

It is extremely important to me that the social and environmental issues associated with the production of fashion clothing are addressed.

When you love fashion, there is no weekend. Everything just blends together.

I think fashion, mishandled, can be quite toxic. It becomes about image and the cult of celebrity. I think when an artist is seen at a lot of parties as a celebrity, I find that worrying. I think it can limit them.

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

My cat is older than many fashion models. I won't even discuss the fact that she also weighs more.

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other. Love is an echo in the feelings of a unity subsisting between two persons which is founded both on likeness and on complementary differences. Without the likeness there would be no attraction; without the challenge of the complementary differences there could not be the closer interweaving and the inextinguishable mutual interest which is the characteristic of all deeper relationships.

I've always described my taste in fashion and music as being very eclectic and uniquely based off my feelings that day. That's the wonderful thing about style. You can be whatever you want to be. You can describe yourself however you want to describe yourself.

I think it's the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers.

I think music influences fashion and has done so for generations.

Fashion is about fun, you know, and I think a lot of people forget that sometimes.

I love fashion as much as I love basketball! It is a great joy for me to express myself through designing my own collection.

I think there is a case for strong action and intervention when there is criminality and when the leaders are corrupt or behaving in a criminal fashion.

I wanted to be a fashion journalist and went to the London College of Fashion to do a journalism and promotion course.

I started this charity, Fashion for Relief, in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina happened. New Orleans was actually the first place I visited in the United States. It was one of my first big jobs, a shoot for British 'Elle.' It was April 14, 1986.

For me, it's important to anticipate where fashion is heading.

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.

Learn to invest in the best quality you can afford and wear pieces in different ways.

The new fashion is to talk about the most private parts of your life; other fashion is to repent of your excesses and to criticize the drugs that made you happy in the other times.

What I find most interesting in fashion is that it has to reflect our time. You have to witness your own moment.

I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.

What's becoming very obvious to me is that fashion is art.

Men's fashion has a certain heaviness in the fabrics and construction. But also there is a heaviness in the mentality.

I'm so excited for my first fragrance! I chose to partner with Dots because I love what they do for their customers, bringing them the hottest trends in fashion, accessories and fragrance at unbelievably low prices. It's amazing!

I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.

Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is more knowledgeable, and I have to be better every single day.

I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.

I learned from working in the fashion world that if I have a day when I feel slapped in the face, or if someone has been mean, I just have to get back up and it will be another day. I think about what I'm grateful for. I look at my kids and my husband and think, Wow, I'm a really lucky person.

Just because you work in the fashion industry, it doesn't mean you live your life in fashion.

I find my dress sense tends to be a bit of a mixture between high fashion and unique vintage pieces with a little bit of street trends. For example, I might find a really nice, suede dinner jacket that I'd wear with a basic plain white shirt and some chinos and a pair of Nike trainers.

Fashion, for me, is anything that's aesthetic and beautiful. Art, food, film. It's something that I appreciate and really like.

I was brought up to understand that we are all here on planet earth together.

I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening.

As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.

The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering.

I didn't like the '80s at all; it was a vulgar moment of fashion.

The new is not a fashion, it is a value.