Quotes About Fashion

I studied fine arts, and color and composition was always my thing, but I've never been too wild with my fashion.

If I'm wearing a vintage '50s-style dress, I'll wear some funky, wild shoes by a contemporary designer.

I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.

When you see a fantastic colour or cut in a magazine, perched up on some famous so-and-so's head, it's tempting to ask your stylist for the same, but do not be fooled. The hair in those fancy photos can be very high maintenance.

If I was left to my own devices, you would see about ten T-shirts in rotation with maybe a few nice pairs of jeans - but I also like to look good. I like feeling really well put together, I just don't have the aptitude and the knowledge to do that.

When my agents tell me how much I'm going to be paid for a film, instead of quoting a figure, they'll say: 'You're going to make ten pairs of Christian Louboutins.'

Here's another secret - I have really big feet. I'm a size ten, so every opportunity I get I buy myself shoes.

I like clothes that you can't tell what era it is, clean, and something I can look back at in ten years and not say, like, 'what the hell was I thinking?!'

With the rise of the Internet, fashion did become part of the global entertainment industry in the last ten years, and will follow the digital evolution of the music or film industry.

I'm a suit guy. I like wearing them for the sense of completion they offer. I like buying them for the sense of near permanence - the knowledge that whatever I buy will be part of my life for the next ten years or so.

I'm like 6'2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

I tend to like the most basic pieces with the perfect fit and fabric, like a simple tank.

I tend to like to make my statements more in fashion than in beauty, because what I normally respond to is when someone looks really effortless and deconstructed, beauty-wise, and they're fashion is really grand. Someone like Kate Moss is a great example.

I have a fetish for shoes; makeup and jewellery so I tend to splurge more on these products than clothes.

I like very funky stuff - I tend to be attracted to flare pants and anything that has glitter.

I love period drama as much as the next person, but there's a tendency to let all of the costume get in the way of the people.

I actually don't shop very much. I have a tendency to rotate a few pairs of ripped jeans and an old cashmere sweater.

I think there is some resistance when people talk about ethical fashion, and a tendency to panic that if you're bringing a moral agenda and highlighting the origins of the garments, you can't incorporate style. But there's no reason why style and conscience can't co-exist.

Sometimes when you're working on a period piece, there's this tendency to be nostalgic about the period and do everything superglamorous, which can end up looking cliche.

I happened to get interested in jewelry when an ethnic tendency was reawakening in fashion.

I have a great admiration and tenderness for Azzedine Alaia. I haven't seen him in a while, but I guess he must be still sewing some dresses at night.

The taste of people with large bank accounts tends not to be on the cutting edge.

The cycling helmet can save your life, but it doesn't look good and tends to ruin your hair.

The way the media tends to cover fashion is as this superfluous, vacuous industry. They focus on models and shows, but behind all that is a massive global industry.