Quotes About Fashion

At that time turbans had not yet arrived in Lyme- though I can report now that Margaret pushed the fashion onto Lyme's women, and within a few years, turbans were a common sight up and down Broad Street. I am not sure they complement empire-line gowns as well as other hats, and I believe some laughed behind their hands at the sight, but isn't fashion meant to entertain?

She smiled brightly on Mrs. West. "Who's your dressmaker, Mrs. West?" she asked, with a view to avoiding the woman all costs. Such extremes of fashion as the purple shift dress which Mrs. West was almost wearing was not for Phryne. She preferred her personality to supply the outrageous edge to her appearance, not her exposed bosom.

So it was that Phryne acquired a skimpy costume of Fugi cotton, with fringes, in a blinding shade of pink known colloquially as 'baby's bottom', a pair of near-kid boots with two-inch heels, an evening bag fringed and beaded to within an inch of complete inutility, stockings in peach, and a dreadful cloche hat with a drunken brim in electric blue plush. Her method in choosing these garments was simple. Anything at which Dot exclaimed, 'Oh, no, Miss!' she bought.

Her Beretta was holstered in her garter worn high on her thigh, under the shapeless blue dress. She had donned shoes in which she could run. The high heels had done their work and could be presented to the poor, assuming that they wanted to court a broken ankle along with their other problems. Along her forearm, covered by the loose sleeve, her throwing knife was strapped. Phryne, as a helpless victim, was a complete failure.

Als ich endlich ins Esszimmer hinunterkam, war die Frühstückszeit glücklicherweise schon so gut wie vorbei. Xemerius hing am Kronleuchter und baumelte mit dem Kopf. "Na, wieder nüchtern, kleine Saufnase?" Lady Arista musterte mich von Kopf bis Fuß. "Ist das Absicht dass du nur das eine Auge geschminkt hast?

You don't have to carry a designer bag that costs more than a car to look cool.

A friend of mine has a big farm in the desert, and she picks up feathers and roadkill for me, then makes it into clothes. I think it's cool to wear roadkill. If I died and somebody wanted to wear my teeth around their neck to VMAs, I'd feel honored.

Also, the realization that fumes from the nitrate of mercury used in the felt-making process affected the nerves of hatmakers and caused their speech to blur and nerves to twitch — hence the term "mad as a hatter" — also helped the public to lose interest.

What color is a chameleon placed on a mirror? ... The chameleon responding to its own shifting image is an apt analog of the human world of fashion. Taken as a whole, what are fads but the response of a hive mind to its own reflection? In a 21st-century society wired into instantaneous networks, marketing is the mirror; the collective consumer is the chameleon.

To be able to design for the plus-sized consumer, for me, that's just beyond. It's a dream.

If you don't want me to be in love with you, you're going to have to stop looking so lovely. First thing tomorrow I'm having your maids sew some potato sacks together for you.

I am a huge fashion fan. It's a really cool way to express yourself.

I design some of my own clothes now.

I'm just going to have one last blackout in a dirty pink lace dress

Everything people call fabulous or amazing lasts for about ten minutes before the culture moves on to the next thing.

We'd have to start wearing long wigs and eye shadow and glitter pants." "Okay, okay, well, that's life,

The Westway, the old strip club on Clarkson Street, is still there, but today it's owned by a hipster restaurant entrepreneur who caters to the ironic cultural lifestylers, more fashion world than art, people who are "cool" because they live in New York.

I just feel my best when I'm all glammed up.

White is actually one of my favorite colors. I have a white car. I love white.

I really see myself continuing to design clothes, fragrances.

You can do anything you put your mind to, and you can do it in stilettos.

The story in this book entitled "Kaiana, the Last of the Hawaiian Knights" concerns them both, but Kalakaua's description of Cook's character as Exacting, dictatorial, and greedy" is uninformed. One feels that Kalakaua was reflecting a fashion of the time to downgrade the contribution of Captain Cook and to justify Hawaiian treatment of him.

Nice jewelry and a boys corpse. Oh you're so pretty.

Yes, dammit, a good bra can change everything.