Quotes About Fashion

Most designers don't dress in fashion. They dress in an anonymous way so that people are just judging their work.

For women, style codes are not merely about being smart or presentable, they are a platform for judgment.

I love cashmere. For casual, I like Juicy Couture. I love the beading in Badgley Mischka. I like Dolce & Gabbana. There's such a lot to choose from.

My first job in the States was as a junior fashion editor at 'Harper's Bazaar,' which I enjoyed, but not for all that long because I was fired by the editor in chief, who told me that I was too 'European.'

I didn't grow up with money; I didn't come from a rich family. But what fashion gave me was an escape into a world of creativity: if I couldn't afford that Junior Gaultier jacket, then I'd get one from the market and customise it.

My first boyfriend was a fashion designer. He was a junior in high school, I was a freshman.

I want to design women's clothes just as much as men's clothes.

It's fun to play dress up for work, but when you have those off-days, it's nice to just be low-key.

If you took some of the behavior that you see in the fashion world and put it anywhere else, it would just be embarrassing.

In America, I can just be glamorous, which is lovely. People are happy and accepting of exactly what it is I do.

Don't be too influenced by what's 'in fashion.' Just be a bit more individual about it.

I'm like this. When I feel something, I want to do something, I do it - I just do it. So I'm like this also in my life: if I want to wear some crazy clothes, I put it on.

Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don't care attitude about clothes. You don't care, you just do it and it looks great.

I think it's always very important to be comfortable and just kind of expressive; if you take fashion too seriously, then you lose the fun of it. I think you should always take the risk.

I'm not too big on stylists. I find it fun just looking for myself, seeing if I can put things together. It's like a secondary hobby for me.

Selling $500 shoes when you make $12 an hour is just an awkward economic juxtaposition.

Working with Kanye is really exciting and inspiring 'cause you get to see how he brings the fashion to life.

For my style influences you've got to look at Kanye first. Pharrell when I was growing up, too.

In DC, it's really edgy to listen to Kanye West or Jay-Z, and it's a thing to know who Azzedine Alaia is - you know what I mean? But I do care about issues, and I was really political in high school, always marching.

There's a lot of work that goes into it - if you think about how many collections a year that Karl Lagerfeld has to do, with Chanel and all the other things he does - you can't do that unless you are working 18 hours a day. It's really a lot of hard, hard work.

I was impressed with what someone like Karl Lagerfeld built and did and the house that he made, but there was never really a female figure I wanted to emulate.

The attention from the fashion world is something that I didn't expect. I've shot with Bruce Weber and met Karl Lagerfeld. Having that kind of attention is really exciting.

Karl Lagerfeld is the hardest-working man in showbiz!

I'm influenced a lot by Chanel and by what Karl Lagerfeld has done.