Quotes About Fashion

Dressing with style is akin to issuing a manifesto; dressing fashionably is like signing a petition.

I always feel like a woman designing for a woman. I know what you want to accentuate and what you want to hide.

I don't design clothes for the Queen, but for the people who wave at her as she goes by.

I started at the very highest level so the upper end is something I know very well. I know it instinctively. But all the years I was designing, it frustrated me that I could reach so few women.

Whoever's designing for plus-size doesn't get it. The entire garment needs to be reconceived. You can't just take a size 8 and make it larger.

If Mrs Merkel wants to wear Westwood, I can promise that I will design clothes for her that will make her look chic, refined and influential.

I never wanted to be a fashion designer, although there is a book somewhere of fashion design I did for a collection when I was seven years old. I always wanted to be an actor.

Designing my shoes, I'm thinking timeless. Not trendy.

Designing came to me. I didn't have to move.

It's a corset design making me look very, very slim and trim. I call it a corset dress. Very Hollywood glamour with the silk.

I don't want to find myself designing for the press.

I tend to gravitate toward Proenza Schouler and Alexander Wang. Their designs are accessible and easy.

Are you pro- or anti-macassar?

I never knew that I would be actually designing clothes or as into fashion as I am now.

All-around 21st-century artist the great Kanye West at Design Miami/ Basel

I started by designing a sweater very close to the body, because I couldn't find any for myself.

Ever since I was a little girl, I wanted Valentino to design my wedding dress. Valentino is the definition of timeless elegance. I don't think there's another couture house like it.

For me fashion is an expression of art that is very closely related both to me and to my body. I see it as an expression of identity combined with desire, moods and a cultural setting.

Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.

Clothes became my attraction and obsession early. I wasn't so interested in dressing myself because I was not my object of desire.

In Italy there is a supreme know-how and a desire to achieve that doesn't really exist anywhere else. You can't make clothes like that in America, because it's just not in the tradition.

Fashions, being themselves begotten of the desire for change, are quick to change also.

The cues that arouse desire are changed by Fashion, but feel like the proddings of Nature.

It is best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.