Fashion Quotations | Page 3

The fact is that even art is subject to fashion.

I am totally, completely, 100% in love with fashion. I would wear Chanel gowns to the grocery store if I could. I'm a huge fan of Chanel and Versace, and I actually have always dreamed of designing my own line one day.

I love the fashion world. I love clothes. I love style.

People should just express themselves and not worry about trends - try to use fashion like a compass, an indicator, examples of things that you can be. It's not to be taken so seriously. It's just clothes.

I can spot someone with similar fashion sense to me a mile off.

The biggest lesson that I've learned is that fashion is this tightrope where you have to be consistent but inconsistent. You need the connective thread but at the same time you need a sense of surprise.

They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes. They shouldn't look like fashion victims.

My wife is very interested in fashion. I am absolutely not. I couldn't give a toss. Fashion is a perfectly valid thing to be interested in. I'm just not particularly interested in pop culture. I think I am more interested in things that have a settled permanence about them.

You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.

I don't like the collusion between high fashion design and high street. You have to know where you stand. I belong to luxury fashion. That's what I've always felt and embraced. I like the best quality, the best fabrics and the most creative field in fashion. I will stay consistent. I belong to this world.

A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

The great thing about fashion is that it always looks forward.

Playing a fashion designer could be the bane of my existence because I am married to a fashion designer.

I learned everything about fashion during my time at the 'NY Times.

You put high heels on and you change.

The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?'

I don't really follow fashion exactly, but I've always been very interested in the way that you present yourself as an expression of yourself, so that's my idea of fashion and style from a personal point of view.

I used fashion to express myself as much as I could. But at some point, it was not enough.

I think fashion is the best value way, the most affordable way in the 21st century, that men and women can express their personality.

I personally love sportswear, and love using it in high fashion.

I went to a fashion show, and this silver-haired guy was staring at me with these piercing water-blue eyes. It scared me because I absolutely saw and knew my entire future.

I feel like skateboarding is as much of a sport as a lifestyle, and an art form, so there's so much that that transcends in terms of music, fashion, and entertainment.

I hope people will say, 'Mr. Valentino, he did something for fashion, no?

I'm an actor, that's what I do every day. Dressing up is part of my job. But whatever you wear you should always be yourself: never go totally with the fashion but use what there is available to be an individual.

I like when a girl knows what she looks like and dresses to accentuate those features.

The biggest thing politically within fashion is that the clothing should be displayed on different body shapes.

Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.

I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.

There are some designers who flash and burn - Courreges is an example of that. But he still marked fashion history. And I don't think that longevity is always a badge of honor. Modern brand management means that we are always celebrating birthdays, when what is exciting about fashion is innovation, not repetition.

Music has shaped men's fashion, and transposed in a playful and witty manner its riding or military heritage. It is difficult to figure out who leads, but music and fashion are connected genetically.

I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.

All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.

I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.

Fashion is quite inclusive and good at embracing different things and different forms of beauty. It's a very liberal industry. You can be yourself. Just not overweight.

When God put everybody here, I don't think that he had a master plan of a pecking order. That's not what you see in the Bible. I disagree with that notion, so in my estimation, we've all been put on this planet to share it. It is our duty and our obligation and our responsibility to make sure that we've done so in the proper fashion.

'That's What She Said' is not Hollywood's standard picture of women: preternaturally gorgeous, wedding obsessed, boy crazy, fashion focused, sexed up 'girl' women. These are real women, comically portrayed, who are trying to wrestle with the very expectations of womanhood that Hollywood movies set up.

I have always loved fashion because it's a great way to express your mood. And I'm definitely a shoe lover. The right pair of shoes can change the feel of an outfit, and even change how a woman feels about herself. A woman can wear confidence on her feet with a high stiletto, or slip into weekend comfort with a soft ballet flat.

Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.

If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work.

I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.

Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion something they truly believe is artistic

Fashion is a tool... to compete in life outside the home. People like you better, without knowing why, because people always react well to a person they like the looks of.

I've always loved fashion so much and I didn't have access to the kind of fashion I really wanted, so I would do vintage shopping.

It is not so for art in appreciation because art is concerned with human behavior. And science is concerned with the behavior of metal or energy. It depends on what the fashion is. Now today it's energy. It's the same soul behind it. The same soul, you see.

With fashion, you really need to understand the aspects of construction. Not just design on an iPad.

I'm not fashionable, and I know nothing about fashion, but I have my individual style, and style is eternal.

One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action.

I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.

To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.

So many people are following fashion now. It's become fashion-tainment.

Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.

Mimicking the intricacies of the human brain, a neuro-inspired computer would work in a fashion similar to the way neurons and synapses communicate. It could potentially learn or develop memory.

If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion.

I was such a late bloomer when it comes to fashion.

Fashion will last forever. It will exist always. It will exist in its own way in each era. I live in the moment. It's interesting to know the old methods. But you have to live in the present moment.

There's a tendency to think that young designers only do fantasy fashion, but I'm more interested in making clothes that women can afford.

Evening is a time of real experimentation. You never want to look the same way.

We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.

I was always into fashion because my mom has always been interested in fashion. She majored in fashion merchandising in college, and it's always been something we have in common.

My parents have influenced my fashion choices. I inherited many of their older garments, and I like their style. I love my mother's elegant and dramatic couture dresses and the feeling for colour my father has.

Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner.

It's hard to go with a trend. As soon as it's out, everyone picks it up. It's important to stay true to yourself. Have fun with fashion instead of letting it dictate.

I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.

One of my core values is to help redefine what it means to be a strong and beautiful woman in the music and fashion worlds and to empower the wonderful things that make us unique.

I like to dress up every day, so I think fashion is an everyday process.

If people decide thin is out, the fashion industry won't have thin models anymore. Have you spent time with fashion people? They are ruthless. They want money. And the one thing they know is people want clothes to cover their bodies. Unfortunately, most people aren't comfortable with their bodies.

Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take.

Fashion is such an insider's club, but slowly, the playing field is evening out. Through social media, everyone can have a front-row seat.

Clothes are like a good meal, a good movie, great pieces of music.

Fashion somehow, for me, is purely and happily irrational.

Academics, who work for long periods in a self-directed fashion, may be especially prone to putting things off: surveys suggest that the vast majority of college students procrastinate, and articles in the literature of procrastination often allude to the author's own problems with finishing the piece.

The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion.

The attention from the fashion world is something that I didn't expect. I've shot with Bruce Weber and met Karl Lagerfeld. Having that kind of attention is really exciting.

But if fashion were easy, wouldn't everybody look great ?

I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.

Fashion takes its inspiration from society and everyday life, which is the same for everyone, and this is perhaps the reason why certain elements recur.

I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.

You think your friends have good taste in fashion, until they ask you to wear an ugly bridesmaid dress!

When I think about fashion I think women will never lose that appetite for fashion.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

All my stuff is men's fashion. It's always oversized shirts, boyfriend blazers and trousers.

I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering.

I went to a public high school and most of the comedy was coming from the black kids and the Asian kids and the Hispanic kids. And, the coolest kids to me where always the black kids. They were always fashion forward and they always dressed the coolest. They were always the best dancers, and just the coolest people.

There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.

The fashion world feels more normal to me when I'm with them.

You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work.

The turnover of fashion is just so quick and so throwaway, and I think that is a big part of the problem. There is no longevity.

When I was going to Paris for Paris Fashion Week, I'd often walk down the street and go into all the different shops that we didn't necessarily have in the U.K., and Maje was definitely one of the ones that stood out for me.

Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

'Garage Magazine' has a strong track record of promoting diversity and racial and gender equality in the worlds of art and fashion and will continue in our mission to stir positive debate on these and other issues.

China approaches fashion with strong enthusiasm. And I believe that this enthusiasm can be translated into something interesting, economically speaking. Not only for my brand, but also for other brands.

No one knows anything about the fashion industry in Brazil. They don't care what you do. They just want the beach and the sun and the fun. I feel the freest and the happiest there.

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

I love fashion. I always have. When I was a kid, I was in almost full-on costumes when I went to school, and I've retained a bit of that in my adulthood.

You don't have to be naked to be sexy.

The whole scale and scope of the decorating and fashion business in this country are incomparably grander than in London. Whats thrilling about America in general, and the New York fashion scene in particular, is its optimism. It makes the whole experience energizing and uplifting.

Polo drifts gently in and out of fashion.