Quotes About Fashion

As a kid, I collected 'Vogue' every month for three years.

I have a background in graphic design and have been designing t-shirt graphics for years.

I love wearing whatever is comfortable, and that could be something which was in trend years ago. So, I don't follow fashion.

I became a fashion designer to make clothes for the people, not to be a top couturier in the French tradition.

At the beginning, we didn't have the money to pay big names, which is how looking for new faces began a tradition that still continues 30 years into the Guess history. It's been interesting to follow their careers after a Guess shoot, for both photographers and models, because the exposure around the world becomes so huge.

I think cycling has always had a tradition of being a bit dapper, especially back in the day.

Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.

The place where I think social media fails is in showing the knowledge, the tradition of stitching the clothing, of cutting the fabric, of the tannery, of the skinning of the jewels - this knowledge needs respect. Online and social media is the future, but we need to learn from the past, too.

Moving to one show each season will significantly help to simplify many aspects of our business. Maintaining two separate, disconnected calendars has been a result of tradition rather than practicality.

I think Hong Kong has always had this tradition of custom-made suits, which I've never done but love the idea of.

I just feel the traditional runway format is old-fashioned.

I love traditional shoes. I have a nice couple of pairs of traditional Oxford-style shoes, a pair of Edward Green shoes, and I aspire to a pair of hand-made George Cleverley shoes. Mark McNairy, all those are amazing.

I'm lucky that I'm inside the fashion industry and see clothes from a different perspective than the traditional consumer. Being able to curate, edit, and style product to make my own look is a privilege, but something I think men are becoming more aware of how to do.

When I was designing Mrs. Obama's dress, half of me was saying, 'What would Halston do?' The other half was saying, 'Be who you are.' Halston, me, America, India - it's been such a great combination. This is what makes me who I am, with the clean lines I learned from Halston and complicated Indian over-the-top Bollywood traditions.

I always try to design fashion that is interesting and innovative, and I like to break traditions and challenge people's expectations.

Gay icons usually have some tragedy in their lives, but I've only had tragic haircuts and outfits.

I've had a lot of tragic hairdos and outfits.

Being dull and boring is far more tragic than being tacky.

I've been criticized by my generation, artists from the '70s - and there's nothing more tragic than artists from the '70s still doing art from the '70s - because I blur all these borders between fashion and pop.

I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don't have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.

Never fit a dress to the body but train the body to fit the dress.

When you look at the runway now, the girls are 15 and 16 years old with no knowledge of clothes, no idea how to project themselves. I was trained how to show off the dress, how to move to make the clothes look better.

I trained as a designer, so I'm always terribly keen about what I'm going to look like.

I'm always in flats. Jeans, jumper, flat shoes or a pair of trainers. It would probably surprise people, but I have to be comfortable. It's not about me dressing up and looking good. I've got to get stuff done.