Quotes About Fashion

For me, I tend to enjoy wearing any period costume. I love how fashion and clothing has changed and evolved through time.

I went to school for clothing and textiles and thought this is what I was going to do. Then I started working in costumes and literally said, 'I don't know if I can take the actors.'

Sometimes I just do costumes, sometimes I just do fashion, and sometimes I blend the two.

I like costumes. I am always dressing up - I'm very English like that.

Of course everyone dreams of living in the 17th or the 18th century because of the costumes, but there were so many incommodities.

I've always wanted to do a period drama - I love the costumes and the make-up.

I'm not chic, I could never be chic.

I grew up on a poor council estate so I know what it feels like not to have the money to dress as you'd like.

I have a collection of caps, but I never count them.

Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.

When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.

I've never tried to do couture, because it's a whole different beast.

I only take risks in couture, but I don't take risks in athleticism.

I have a very haute couture way of working.

Couture has a power that ready-to-wear can never have; the attention of les petites mains as they sew; all that love and belief goes into the cloth. That's what you feel when you wear it.

I even do my ready-to-wear samples like couture.

I have a couture body.

I want to be on the cover of 'GQ.' That's a personal goal.

I was on the cover of a lot of magazines, and there were compliments about beauty and fashion and what I was wearing. Man, if you get locked into that, you can lose your freedom as an actress.

I always go with a classic hair look - sleek and to the side - for election coverage.

Everyone covering 'Stage Beauty' asks me: 'What's it like to wear a dress?'

I think you can tell a lot by someone's footwear - cowboy boots would put me off, as would a man in Ugg boots or Crocs.

A lot of my family going back were cowboys and barrel racers, and I'd say I'm 50 percent high fashion and 50 percent cowgirl.

Fashion is so mass-produced now; I hope there will come a refocus on how people see couture. And I would also hope for a new focus on the craft.