Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests

I don’t suppose I can wear the flamingo tie,” he said as he pulled on black socks. “It’s a bit festive, given the occasion,” I responded. “Can’t wear it to the opera,” said the Colonel,...

She wore tight corsets to give her a teeny waist – I helped her lace them up – but they had the effect of causing her to faint. Mom called it the vapors and said...

You can go to Graff and buy a diamond that’s flawless. You aren’t going to be able to buy the same diamond at Fortunoff, but it’s still a diamond you can enjoy. If fashion can...

She was wearing a purple T-shirt, with a skinny black dress over it that made you remember how much of a girl she was, and trashed black boots that made you forget.

Perfection isn’t necessarily found only in publicly accepted trends. Perfection is found in self.

The fashion world has been great. We started Apple Bottoms about seven years ago; it’s interesting to be able to create something from your perspective, for your fans and support. It’s a little different for...

The late eighties was a good vintage. ID was not yet fashionable so a lot of people were doing it for the right reasons – to make good design, not become stars.

She was never without dark glasses, she was always well groomed, there was a consequential good taste in the plainness of her clothes, the blues and grays and lack of luster that made her, herself,...

Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.

I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn’t exist anymore.

And her old Uncle William used to say a lady is known byher shoes and her gloves.

It felt really good to beat a top-ranked team in convincing fashion. It showed we’re not overrated.

It seems to make little sense how a person’s self-worth or self-confidence should be wrapped up in how much their jacket is worth or what shoe they are wearing. Does a person’s round or pointy-tip...

Oh! do look at Miss Oriel’s bonnet the next time you see her. I cannot understand why it should be so, but I am sure of this—no English fingers could put together such a bonnet...

Who can really say who invents something first in fashion?

It’s not very easy to grow up into a woman. We are always taught, almost bombarded, with ideals of what we should be at every age in our lives: “This is what you should wear...

A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.

Cyrilly expected Sylvia – as an intelligent and ambitious young woman – to walk around pale-mouthed and flat-shoed. She saw intellectual inclinations and a taste for fashion as mutually exclusive and assumed that Sylvia would...

I have a shirt that’s skin tight. It’s made from human flesh.

String several words together in a sentence and you have a language necklace. My I love you would look great with your favorite red dress.

Before job interviews, I think: What color tie best represents me as a person this company would be interested in?

I was sufficiently recovered from my nervous condition – or else the booze was beginning to work – to be able to discuss with Rudi the merits of checked or striped trousers, which had been...

A woman’s perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.

You couldn’t tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.

It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.

Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.

Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.

The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.

The importance of Fashion Week is really the exposure because the fashion industry is so competitive. It’s key exposure, a really important moment in the spotlight for a designer at any level.

Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today.

I wear heels. It’s not for a fashion statement, it’s… ammunition.

Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.And falsehoods the truths of other people.Other people are quite dreadful. The only...

Principals say that teachers don’t want to be fashion police.

Chic rarely bothers to leave the Rue De Faubourg Saint-Honore.

In my typical way, I declined to respond, saying that I didn’t want anyone to run to a store just because I endorsed a trend. Besides, a trend is good only if it works for...

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In the Sixties, fashion was about liberation. It was about setting women free; it wasn’t about being unable to walk.

Dessert is to a meal what a dress is to a woman.

I don’t try to be in fashion; I don’t try to follow trends. You just end up out of fashion that way.

It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.

Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.

A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion

Remember this: No one is looking at your imperfections; they’re all too busy worrying about their own.

My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.

I’m not really into the fashion thing.

The difference between style and fashion is quality.

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

Damn pity. If I’d known what crimes I’d be exposed to under the guise of fashion, I may have very well stayed dead.

I’m a designer, and I work very hard at that. People sometimes want to put down fashion by saying it’s frivolous or superficial, but it’s not that way at all. It’s actually very hard work.