Quotes About Fashion

But I'm living proof you don't have to spend a lot in order to look great.

When in doubt, I always say, wear black. You can never go wrong with black.

So there I was, sitting on the plane in a black leather motorcycle jacket, seeing these palm trees through the window as we landed. And I thought, Great. Black leather and palm trees. Already I'm fitting in, just like I knew I would... ...Not.

Which type of wedding gown best suits you? If you are lucky enough to be tall and slender, you can pretty much get away with any type or shape of gown. That is why models are tall and slender—anything looks good on them!

You coulld put girls' boyfriends in jail, and I could teach the immigrants how to dress!!!

You can't look prim and righteous wearing a microscopic miniskirt and mile-high heels. Well it's pretty hard, anyway.

Be like Grace: Wear large, dark glasses and a filmy scarf over your hair next time you go out in public. People will totally wonder who the mysterious beauty is, standing in line behind them at Blockbuster.

Today Rommel had on a mink bolero jacket. I am not even joking. It was dyed lavender to match the one slung across Grandmère's shoulders.

If you have the right shoes, you can do anything.

easily solved. It was solved by wearing jeans under my skirt. "Allie," Mom said.

He wants me to boss you around. We'll pick up a pair of stilettos on the way home, he said. I said, I need to go back to Philiadelphia.

Oliver liked to play the part of disaffected youth, but he liked shopping in SoHo even more.

Ingrid dresses more like a librarian than any librarian in the history of libraries.

Be careful what you say," Gladys says, tapping the counter with a pen. "When you're older, you'll want your man to dress better. Some can get pretty lazy. After enough years together, you could find yourself begging him not to wear sweatpants to the Christmas party. Like I know I'll have to do with Bob again this year.

You had the feeling they were nice because they'd decided it was the fashion to be nice.

She had expressed herself, as women will, in a smug broadside of pastel shades. Nothing clashed because nothing had the strength to clash; everything murmured of safety among the hues; all was refinement.

Fashion, like architecture, inheres in the darkness of the lived moment, belongs to the dream consciousness of the collective.

Benjamin's aesthetic is dissectional, drawing on Baroque poetry, Baudelaire's writing and fashion histories. The female body becomes ornament, and in such fetishistic fragmentation, body parts are likened to alabaster, snow, jewels, minerals, and the body can, of course, be made equivalent to – that is, bought for – the metal of exchange: money.

doeskin trousers, topped off with a merino vest and silk scarf. Propped nearby was a handsome cane

Black males who refuse categorization are rare, for the price of visibility in the contemporary world of white supremacy is that black identity be defined in relation to the stereotype whether by embodying it or seeking to be other than it…Negative stereotypes about the nature of black masculinity continue to overdetermine the identities black males are allowed to fashion for themselves.

The men, who lumber around with Cowboys jerseys hanging past their coattails and their pants bagged around the heels of their boots, a fatal foreshortening of vertical line that makes them look like a bunch of hulking twelve-year-olds.

You spent it on oil for your hair,' I said, 'and on baubles for your whores, on furs and on horses, on jewels and on silk. A man, Lord Eardwulf, dresses in leather and iron. And he fights.

women who miraculously spend their working day wearing bondage-tight skirts and vertiginous, destabilizing heels which make their feet look bound the erogenous zones of crushed muscles and cramped bones, encased in upmarket strippers' heels and if she has to cripple herself to signal her education, talent, intellect, skills and leadership potential then so be it

It is interesting to observe what the Cynic teaching became when it was popularized. In the early part of the third century B.C., the cynics were the fashion, especially in Alexandria. They published little sermons pointing out how easy it is to do without material possessions