Quotes About Fashion

I've been introduced to some huge designers that I could never afford. It's really cool.

It was definitely my grandmother who introduced me to fashion.

I don't think I'm the one that invented glamour at all.

I love flip-flops. It's the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana.

The best designers are French - we all know that. That's a fact, I'm not inventing anything.

People with a lot of money don't dress as well as people who have to make do, who have to be inventive. Those are the people who are always more interestingly dressed, I think. Everything I do, I do with gut instinct. If I think too much, it won't come out right.

I just think people should invest in the world. Don't invest in fashion, but invest in the world.

There's a whole generation of women who never really heard the word investment before, when it came to fashion. They've been buying things because they were cheap.

Fashion is not an investment. If you wear a dress and don't get many compliments, you won't wear it again. It's not like buying bonds.

You can't build a fashion business with a short-term perspective, unless you're prepared to make investments that you know are not going to pay dividends immediately.

It is London fashion week, and once again I haven't been invited to any shows. This is upsetting given my well-known love of fashion, or, as I think of it, playing with the dressing-up box.

I get invited to premieres, and I've been to a few fashion shows and stuff, but I always get really bored. I feel quite awkward. You have to wear something by them, and it all feels like, 'Why am I doing free advertising for you?'

I'm giving curvy women a seat at a table that we've never been invited to before - a table with high-end fashion people who have never considered us beautiful.

I was never made to feel that fashion was frivolous and any old dress would do. Fashion was serious stuff in my house and in my life. In fact, most memories I have growing up involve beautiful dresses.

When it comes to swag, there's no gender involved.

My involvement in fashion is not at the highest artistic level.

Fashion has always been in conflict with convention. Style involves some knowledge of both. But you can pretty much forget these seasonal injunctions.

With fashion, you really need to understand the aspects of construction. Not just design on an iPad.

It is hard to have a fashion business in any country, but even more difficult in Ireland.

I'm very proud that I was always able to be myself and didn't really care what people thought when I wanted bangs with my little Con-Air curling iron, and I wanted to wear glitter on my eyes and rings on every finger and charm necklaces that look like I was wearing baggage while I skated. But I do look back, and man, those '90s bangs.

It's ironic to watch a dress on a mannequin or a model on a catwalk who's not anything like the person that's going to buy it.

I have quite a collection of ironic band T shirts.

I like the irony in my work.

I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.