Quotes About Fashion

Time changes nothing, girl, but the size of your underwear. . .and hopefully your hairdo.

The poetry of fashion lies in the creation of illusion

Mr Witwould: "Pray, madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? I find I must keep copies." Mrs Millamant: "Only with those in verse.... I never pin up my hair with prose."

Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.

I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.

Nobody looks good with brown lipstick on.

I am not trendy. I am not 'in fashion'. I am simply a positive human being who has a positive outlook on life.

Your clothes should be as important as your skin.

If you want a new look, get a new hair style.

I like being a woman in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.

Growing age can kill the beauty, not the style.

Stressed, depressed, but well dressed.

Shoes are just a pedestal. What interests me is the power of the woman who wears them.

If I had the power, I would ban leggings.

Never underestimate the power of a shoe.

Never underestimate the power of dramatic lips.

Always wear high heels. Yes, they give you power. you move differently, sit differently and even speak differently.

The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.

Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse.

catching a glimpse of his rather hippyish form in a mirror, he wonders at this atavism of apparel, is it an inversion of foetal ontogeny, in which the phenotype passes through previous fashion stages? Soon there will be gaiters and gloves...I will probably die, he thinks, clad in animal skins.

De twijfel zit in zijn werk als een breipatroon in een damesblad.

This prolific and inventive photographer (Edward Steichen) must be given credit for virtually inventing modern fashion photography, and as the tohousands of high-quality original prints in the Conde Nast archives prove, only Irving Penn and Richard Avedon have since emerged as serious historical rivals.