Fashion people think that the careful Nice companies are boring beyond measure. (Nice people think fashionistas look silly and should Get A Life).

It is not easy to find someone your size once the Freshman Fifteen turns to the Sophomore Forty or the Senior Sixty. Even when, through some miracle of self-restraint and bulimia, college girls managed to...

I’m always right, always wrong. Dressing bad’s like loving you there is nothing i haven’t worn. Nothing, I haven’t said before. You are nothing I haven’t felt before.

These jeans looked so good on me when I looked in the mirror I wanted to fuck myself.

As long as you wear clothes you love, which suit your body and your personality, it won’t matter if you’re wearing a dress that was in vogue five years ago; you’ll still look amazing. Also,...

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for...

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.

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.

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.

We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.

Respect is not creative … Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore — and then you get something out of her.

Department stores are not really out of fashion, but they will struggle if they don’t provide what customers want.

So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.

Fashion is my passion, and I respect the creativity that you find in its different levels.

So the fact that the media all jump on a story in a similar fashion is not surprising. The opposite, when a voice cuts through to say something different or original, is surprising.

I had no name for that particular hue of orange, other than unfortunate.