Quotes About Fashion

When I was growing up, I didn't really have a lot of different things I could wear. As I got older, the more I could look different on an everyday basis, the better.

I knew nothing about the industry, I didn't go to fashion school, but I was brave enough to do things in a different way.

I like the American style. I love L.A. They have a completely different way of dressing.

For a lot of people looking at a 19-year-old model, there's a feeling that 'I can't pull that off.' But there's so much you can pull off if you can find the confidence to look at fashion in a different way and make it unique for yourself.

Obviously fashion is a completely different world from football.

Ive never had a perm; I used to have it straightened with a hot comb, back in my 'A Different World' days.

Costume is a massive thing. I think costume makes you stand differently.

I've always dressed differently. I've always had my own deal.

It's absolutely delightful to get dressed up for a lovely evening, but when it goes from being a fun thing to being a chore, and a chore that men don't have to do, then we need to think about it differently.

Most women don't think to wear bold lip colors, which is just all the more reason to dig out those lipliners and lip colors and put them on.

Fashion only seems to make sense if it's rooted in some dimension of history or if it feels like a continuation of an idea.

I can't sleep in the evenings. Most of the pictures people see of me are me going to work events: a Fendi dinner one night, a Prada dinner the next, and working all day.

I am a makeup junkie... Yves St. Laurent, Christian Dior, and anything else that looks good.

I was never really interested in fashion before I started to work with Dior. I didn't see fashion as an art form.

Dior makes me look good, and I make Dior look good.

The fact that designers like Lagerfeld, Gaultier, Galliano and Dior could believe in Alek made me believe in myself, too.

In the early '50s, it was still the time of Christian Dior's New Look. Every dress was big and important, and I thought I must do something completely different. Women needed something for daytime that was wearable.

I love Dior and Commes des Garcons, but I can't really afford them.

Growing up, I used to literally run home from school to watch the Dior and Galliano shows online.

There are so many levels in fashion that I'm happy to dip in and dip out of it all.

When I started out, the idea of comfort in shoes was almost a dirty word.

I just think it looks so cool when a woman has a dirty martini. She looks so powerful.

I'm a boots girl. I always wear boots. They only look better when they get dirty.

When I first started, it was a dirty word to say you made clothes for people to wear... I was a little ashamed of it. You didn't always feel you were this amazing creative force.