Quotes by Fashion Designers

My design is no design.
Issey Miyake
Paris is a heaven for all woman's obssesions: hot men, great chocolates, scrumptuous pastries, sexy lingerie, cool clothes but, as any shoe-o-phile knows, this city is a hotbed of fabulous shoes.
Kirsten Lobe
Obession makes everything possible
Novala Takemoto
You fueled my obession, even encouraged it and your selfishness ruined my life
Novala Takemoto
A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city are never appropriate. Shorts should only be worn on the tennis court or on the beach.
Tom Ford
I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.
Gloria Vanderbilt
There is a time for work. And a time for love. That leaves no other time.
Coco Chanel
When I can no longer create anything I'll be done for.
Coco Chanel
When a woman dressjBS up for an occasion the man should become the black velvet pillow for the jewel.
John Weitz
Success is the sweetest revenge.
Vanessa Williams
Since everything is in our heads we better not lose them.
Coco Chanel
I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become.
Coco Chanel
We don't want to push our ideas on to customers we simply want to make what they want.
Laura Ashley
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
Coco Chanel
Life is a risk.
Diane Von Furstenberg
I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite which I would like.
Coco Chanel
Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.
Coco Chanel
I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite which I would like.
Coco Chanel
Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.
Coco Chanel
There is a time for work. And a time for love. That leaves no other time.
Coco Chanel
There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.
Coco Chanel
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
Coco Chanel
The purpose of life is life.
Karl Lagerfeld
That is the best-to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny.
Gloria Vanderbilt
There are people who have money and people who are rich.
Coco Chanel
Fashions fade - style is eternal.
Yves Saint-Laurent
Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.
Christian Dior
Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.
Coco Chanel
Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.
Coco Chanel
Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.
Coco Chanel
In my life I doubt if I will ever forget the sensation of your lips against mine
Novala Takemoto
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
Coco Chanel
Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.
Coco Chanel
Compromise is low class. I don't have anything against the poor, but being low class is the root of all evil
Novala Takemoto
Love is cursed by monogamy
Kanye West
A balloon seller sells his breath till death to spread happiness, while he can't taste any of it.
Sujit Meher
I want to be the purveyor of a certain silhouette or a way of cutting, so that when I am dead and gone people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.
Alexander McQueen
A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion
Coco Chanel
Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth,but to make them beautifu
Coco Chanel
fashion has a right to exist, because it permits people to define themselves over and over again.
Ann Demeulemeester
Evening fashions have to be fabulous.Don't be just better...be the BEST.
Tony Bowls
These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.
Karl Lagerfeld
Fashion is life-enhancing and I think it's a lovely, generous thing to do for other people
Vivienne Westwood
Purses are dreamt up by artists, not architects.
Lauren Conrad
Walk like you have three men walking behind you.
Oscar de la Renta
Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.
Coco Chanel
I don't do fashion, i am fashion
Gabrielle coco Chanel
Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.
Alexander McQueen
Style isn't just about what you wear, it's about how you live.
Lilly Pulitzer
To be irreplaceable you have to be different.
Coco Chanel
Take all the fullness out of this skirt," they say. "Ok," we say, "but you'll feel awfully silly in it next year." "What do I care about next year?" they answer. "Any dress which isn't in style for at least three years isn't any good to begin with," we say.
Elizabeth Hawes
Don't buy much but make sure that what you buy is good.
Christian Dior
Don't let anything be too much for you
Claudia Pegus
Young girls need to learn that sexiness isin’t about being naked.
Marc Jacobs
And again and again, why, oh why, Joe Rosenthal, were you so surprised when skirts got long and waists natural? For three long years it had been coming. It was a style, Mr. Rosenthal. Style is never unpredictable. But Rosenthal and Levine are not occupied with style. They believe that everything changes twice a year and they want it to. Otherwise people wouldn't have to buy so many clothes. Nor are the manufacturers occupied with quality because it wears and makes future buying unnecessary. They are not concerned with whether clothes are useful or beautiful or functional. That, apparently, is not a part of their job.
Elizabeth Hawes
After all, the butt of Fashion's dirtiest jokes is the public. The present American boast, that all women can be beautifully dressed if they choose, has been so clearly stated in so many ways for so long a time, that a large number of American women believe themselves to be beautifully dressed who are actually horrors to behold. Take those $10.75 copies of the dresses worn by the Duchess of Windsor in the summer of 1937. You could tell by the look on the faces of the American girls who wore them that they really felt beguiling enough to snatch off a Duke because they had a modified silhouette corresponding to that of a Duchess. The actual dress, stinted on material, cheaply imitated as to print design, bad in color and ill-fitting, was a horror to behold. You may say, if the girl feels like a Duchess, what more do you ask? I say, she looks to me like the worst mass-pro- duced imitation of a Duchess I can imagine, and it just isn't pretty.
Elizabeth Hawes
Part of being a conscious human being, is having an intention. And if you put an intention into whatever you do, it’s definitely going to be more satisfying in the end
Daphne Guinness
Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off.
Coco Chanel
Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.
Mary Quant
Fashion sighs after trends. I want timeless elegance. Fashion has no time. I do. I say: Hello Lady, how can I help you? Fashion has no time to even ask such a question, because it is constantly concerned with finding out: What will come next? It is more about helping women to suffer less, to attain more freedom and independence.
Yohji Yamamoto