Quotes About Fashion

Jihad is the Afghan bling.

Joan Rivers telling Lauren Bacall her dress is all wrong is like Carrot Top telling Lenny Bruce he needs to get an edge.

I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers.

I want to be the Joan of Arc of fashion. I want to be the link between the runway and the real woman.

A Joan Crawford dress looks really good on an hourglass figure.

I got rid of my glasses and they changed my hair. That's really all they did. They went shopping for me, so the clothes are different too. It wasn't like Extreme Makeover where I got a nose job or anything.

Around '62 in Baltimore, all the girls had those big hairdos. And then suddenly, a few of the really hip ones started doing their hair straight. And people panicked. And it was called going 'Joe,' meaning Joe College. And people would say, 'I don't know. Should I be 'Joe'? I can't decide.'

I'd say in general, my style is Johnny Weir style. It's my style. I can't classify it as anything else.

I'm always jealous of Johnny Depp's sense of style, but if I tried to get away with a floppy hat and waistcoat, I'd look like a homeless person.

I have always drawn strength from my late mother's life. When Eunice Johnson set up the first major fashion show for African-American audiences more than 50 years ago, she did so at a time when black Americans, especially black women, were still fighting for a seat at the table - any table.

Richie Rich, Keoki, Amanda LaPore are really successful. They've joined the culture at large.

I think it is childish for men to joke about women's clothes, to make fun of our hats, to complain over the cost of a good fur coat.

I always joke and say I want to invent a comfortable stiletto and then retire.

Wearing heels is no joke.

lilac ruffled shirt, green satin knickerbockers, tights, pink cummerbund tied in a floppy bow and pointy white satin shoes with gold buckles

It's so trendy, almost bleeding to death. All the cool girls are doing it.

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.

Perényi had found in the garden everything from sexual politics and class struggle to culinary fashion and, particularly relevant to me, ecological insight. The garden in other words, was better approached as an arena than a refuge. --Intro by Michael Pollan

Cock your hat - angles are attitudes.

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.

Fashion is a tyrant from which there is no deliverance; all must conform to its whimsical

That hat looks ridiculous." "Fortunately, I can change hats," Wayne said, "while you, sir, are stuck with that face.

Spook smiled. "Elend is a forgetful scholar - twice as bad as Sazed ever was. He gets lost in his books and forgets about meeting he himself called. He only dresses with any sense of fashion because a Terriswoman bought him a new wardrobe. War has change him some, but on the inside, I think he's still just a dreamer caught in a world with too much violence.