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Quotes About Fashion

She was dressed for summer in Battle Creek, which meant straddling the narrow line between socially acceptable and buck naked, somehow making a strapped cotton shell and sweaty cutoffs look both girl-next-door sexy and living-room-small-talk appropriate. Kid-tested, mother-approved. I was dressed nearly the same, but looked like a homeless person. "So
~ Robin Wasserman
Their costumes look purchased from the Goodwill store on Tatoine.
~ Roger Ebert
So it's off with the shellsuit and on with the Armanis, Bring out the champagne and the caviar sarnies
~ Roger McGough
Are not couturiers the poets who, from year to year, from strophe to strophe, write the anthem of the feminine body?
~ Roland Barthes
The saint is first and foremost a being without formal context; the idea of fashion is antipathetic to the idea of sainthood.
~ Roland Barthes
printed fashion functions, semiologically speaking, like a true mythology of clothing: it is even because the vestimentary signified is here objectified, thickened, that fashion is mythic. So it is this mythology of clothing (one could also say its utopia) that needs to be the first stage of a vestimentary linguistics.
~ Roland Barthes
Although Rockefeller never said so outright, one senses that he thought Flagler had become a slave to fashion and ostentation, a traitor to the austere puritanical creed that had united them.
~ Ron Chernow
Rockefeller generally conformed to the requisite style, but his family constantly had to remind him to buy a new suit when his current one got too shiny.
~ Ron Chernow
He even had wigs styled for different occasions: golf, church, short walks, and so on.
~ Ron Chernow
If you can see a bandwagon, it's too late to get on.
~ Lee Child
Second conclusion: If you can see a bandwagon, it's too late to get on.
~ Lee Child
pyjamas, all patterned and baggy. Late
~ Lee Child
wearing beanie hats
~ Lee Child
expensive silk jacket, ambitious.
~ Lee Child
Disenchantment, like any other fashion, having started off among the elite had now been passed down to finish its days among the lower orders.
~ Lermontov
noticed, had powdered hair that curled all
~ Lewis Carroll
I am starting a collection of only right-hand gloves. It's ever so bourgeois to have two.
~ Libba Bray
I hate high heels. Walking in high heels for eight hours a day should be forbidden by the Geneva Convention.
~ Libba Bray
DiscomfortWear™, shapewear designed to eliminate rills, ripples, and muffin tops. In some cases known to eliminate circulation and breathing. If you're not uncomfortable, it's not DiscomfortWear™.
~ Libba Bray
We have work to do if you are not to be a total failure like high-waisted, acid-wash jeans.
~ Libba Bray
Sinjin was sitting bare-chested with Petra's blue feather boa wrapped around his neck and draped over his shoulder. His long dark curls had been teased and sprayed into a sexy mane. Heavy black eyeliner rimmed his eyes. "Am I not gorgeous? I want to snog myself. I'm like a postmodern Lord Byron." "You put the ironic in Byronic," Petra quipped. "Well said, luv.
~ Libba Bray
Fashionable debutantes in pastel chiffon party dresses wilt into leather club chairs like frosted petit fours melting under the July sun.
~ Libba Bray
Fashionable debutantes in pastel chiffon party dresses wilt into leather club chairs like frosted petits fours melting under the July sun.
~ Libba Bray
Modelo? ¿Actriz? ¿Princesa? Es demasiado hermosa para ser alguien corriente.
~ Libba Bray