Quotes About Fashion

I'm constantly trying to find new ways to get my hair out of my face.

I make 98% of my collection in New York City and am generating jobs, so fashion isn't just frivolous for me. I understand levity about it. I also understand the depth of it.

New York City is the most important location in the world... it is the center for fashion, culture and finance.

There was always Helmut Newton coffee table books around when I was growing up.

I've loved music. It was my first everything, but fashion and clothes is just the next step.

I kept buying bucket hats. Next thing I knew, I felt like I didn't look right without one.

Yeah, I grew a goatee, and the next year, everybody had them.

Maybe I'll buy myself a nice Gucci bag.

The clothes of Courreges are so nice.

I like nice clothes, whether they're dodgy or not.

My favorite designer is Christian Lacroix, not just because his clothes are amazing and I love them, but because he's so nice. When I did his fashion show, he was the first one to arrive there and he helped everyone.

It's nice to have someone write a couture character for you.

Karl Lagerfeld looks very tough because of the glasses, and he has all these rings and the leather gloves, and he's so smart. But he's a very nice person... when he comes into a room or studio, he is going to say hello to each person, and the same when he leaves.

One nice thing that I have discovered about Los Angeles is the enthusiasm with which people dress.

If I was a bajillionaire, I would spend a lot of time at Barneys just buying all kinds of great things all the time. I would have so many black cashmeres it would be out of control. I like the way nice things feel very much.

I used to feel guilty about having nice things, because there was so much good I could be doing with that money. I always tell people that, if you can afford what I'm wearing, then you can afford to make a difference. But fashion has taught me that it's not a bad thing to love yourself and take care of yourself.

I still am very street - I just have nicer clothes. I'm not ashamed of that.

All brands, whether high-ticket luxury ones such as Cartier or Rolls-Royce or 'masstige' ones with luxe-y overtones but altogether more affordable, all want to grow. Even brands that may have started in a modestly niche design and lifestyle fashion can find themselves under pressure to go global or to sell out at the top.

I couldn't go now to a brand that had a niche attitude like... gothic. I couldn't do that. Well, I could do it, but I wouldn't find it interesting, challenging.

There's a great niche in the market for what I do, which is effortless style.

Rachel Bilson, Nicole Richie, Vanessa Hudgens... so many of my idols growing up were Bongo girls.

Carey Mulligan- I'd love to dress her. And Nicole Kidman.

I work predominantly with tailors from Nigeria, Ghana, and Senegal.

I like to have glasses for day and night.