Quotes About Fashion

It's very difficult for designers today. How can someone produce so many shows? Now the minimum is four a year.

Australia has produced amazing costume designers that are unheralded.

I've had people say to me, 'You'll never sell handbags. You don't work with leather, and leather is luxury.' To me, it's the complete opposite: leather is everywhere - it's so cheap a material; it's so mass produced. Over 50 million animals a year are killed just for fashion. For me, it doesn't have a luxury element to it.

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

Fashion is not about product; it's about an interesting idea that you can't resist buying into.

I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.

I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.

A blow-dry with no product leaves me looking like a Mongolian cushion.

I tend not to like an awful lot of what is going out under my name now because it is just all product. Who needs it?

People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.

The best lip product in the world is something I'm scared is out of production. It's YSL's Kiss-and-Blush in this really muted pinky brown.

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

Production chains, how consumers can drive change: all these things may seem at odds with fashion, but arguably, they're not.

Clothing, and the products that you buy, are really about how they make you feel.

Our fashion for us, it's an expression; first of all of life, I put all of myself in my fashion. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, but this is a mirror, an expression about Domenico and Stefano. It's not just a profession: it's a person with a lot of personality.

I wouldn't have taken up modeling as a profession. It was more of a hobby.

I design for a feminine woman who appreciates art a lot, either as a profession or as a hobby.

I was always interested in fabric, clothes and designing. Maybe I would have been a designer by profession if I didn't start acting.

I wanted to be a shoe designer, but I never thought it could be a profession. But what was the alternative? Doctor? Too dirty! Air-hostess? Maybe not! Then someone gave me a book on Roger Vivier, and, cheri, instantly I knew that was it!

What I like to wear, I do myself. I don't know how that sounds, but it's the truth. My life is so mixed with my profession that I don't know where I begin or my work ends.

I have never been a professional model; I have had some modeling sessions.

It's incorrect to assume you can be a fashion editor because you blog, if you don't have experience to look at fashion in a professional way.

Everyone's curves fall in a different place. But you can't put something of mine on and not see curves.

There was a time in my life when I tried a lot of different things, different looks. Between the ages of 17 and 22, there were a lot of bad looks. But I guess you learn from your mistakes. After that, I kind of found my style and what I like to wear.