Quotes About Fashion

There has come into fashion a strange and easy manner of suppressing the revelations of history, of invalidating the commentaries of philosophy, of eliding all embarrassing facts and all gloomy questions.

The cause of all this youth's crimes was the desire to be well-dressed.

Madame Dufour stood at the head of the table, dressed in a severe black dress that revealed the soup spoon–sized hollow at the base of her long neck. A single diamond brooch was her only adornment (one good piece, ladies, and choose it well; everything makes a statement, nothing speaks quite so loudly as cheapness).

Vianne," he says. "I wanted you to meet my daughter." He reaches back for a classically beautiful young woman wearing a chic black sheath and vibrant pink neck scarf. She comes toward me, smiling as if we are friends. "I'm Isabelle," she says.

We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves.

The world isn't purposeful. It isn't ruled by reason. The world wants to play. Fashion queens have always aroused more interest than future generations and their fate.

After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.

She was looking more sleazy than grungy today, in an orange top cut so low that you could ski down the bare skin in front.

Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it.

And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.

I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.

When I was four I asked my mother for a valet for my birthday.

What I do, Coco would have hated. The label has an image and it's up to me to update it. I do what she never did. I had to find my mark. I had to go from what Chanel was to what it should be.

I'm not a social person. Not that I'm not at ease. I'm pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It's not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that's all.

I think tattoos are horrible. It's like living in a Pucci dress full-time.

Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion--it exists to be destroyed. If everybody did everything with respect, you'd go nowhere.

If you attach no importance to weight problems, if not being able to wear new, trendy small-sized clothes does not cause you any regret, this book is not for you.

I am a completely different person when I am working on different collections.

I sketch in a way that people can nearly do the dresses without me coming in for a fitting. Every single detail, every proportion, every cut -- everything.

As a rule, models are unfamiliar with what the word eating means to most people.

Anyone who would wear all white like that clearly has issues

No woman dresses below herself from mere caprice.

I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.

If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings.