Quotes by Fashion Designers - Page 2

Fashion is never wrong.
Malcolm McLaren
The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.
Mary Quant
No garment which distorts the shape and motion of the wearer is beautiful, nor s any garment beautiful which emphasizes more than one or at most two of your sexual characteristics.
Elizabeth Hawes
My idea is always to avoid nostalgia.
Miuccia Prada
Elegance is elimination.
Cristóbal Balenciaga
If you are the type who truly longs to be a Southern Belle at all times, regardless of taking twice the space available in bus, subway or elsewhere, you had best remove yourself to a large estate replete with servants.
Elizabeth Hawes
My role in all of this is very simple. I make clothing like armor. My clothing protects you from unwelcome eyes.
Yohji Yamamoto
Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
Yves Saint-Laurent
When a woman smiles,then her dress should smile to
Madeleine Vionnet
It is impossible to be completely abstract about clothes because they have no life unless they are worn. They must fit onto a body or they do not exist.
Elizabeth Hawes
Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.
Karl Lagerfeld
Women want to wear what they do because of what goes on in their heads. Their size and shape have practically nothing to do with it.
Elizabeth Hawes
I think in black.
Gareth Pugh
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 in my clothes.
Yves Saint-Laurent
Buy less, choose well & do it yourself!
Vivienne Westwood
The imprint of Miss Hepburn is absolutely, totally present. Like it or not, she will be the most important look of the twentieth century.
Manolo Blahnik
A beautiful dress may look beautiful on a hanger, but that means nothing. It must be seen on the shoulders, with the movement of the arms, the legs, and the waist.
Coco Chanel
Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.
Karl Lagerfeld
A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
Coco Chanel
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.
Coco Chanel
I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.
Coco Chanel
Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!
Coco Chanel
I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.
Coco Chanel
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Yves Saint-Laurent
Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.
Coco Chanel
I am anti-social and have a dark personality. I have no redeeming qualties and nothing to offer, therefore I could never have what I wanted
Novala Takemoto
It's not like I'm all into nostalgia and history, it's just that I can't stand the way things are now
Novala Takemoto
Be classy. Anything but trashy.
Coco Chanel
Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves and, of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys they’d just walk around naked at all times.
Betsey Johnson
That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.
Gianni Versace
Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel.
Coco Chanel
In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.
Coco Chanel
Everything good in life is either immoral, illegal or fattening.
Nicole Richie
I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.
Coco Chanel
Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics
Coco Chanel
Think pink but don't wear it
Karl Lagerfeld
The visions of a healthy brain,Give us pleasure over and again;For this home was done,From the daytime dreams of one.
Omar Kiam
Twenty-three is old. It's almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s.
Jessica Simpson
When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.
Karl Lagerfeld
Platypus? I thought it was pronounced platymapus. Has it always been pronounced platypus?
Jessica Simpson
I only had the right to sit in the shadows of the world,in complete silence. Whether I was laughed at, or told I was discusting, or thought of as unpleasant I would sit in the shadows.
Novala Takemoto
After you make a fool of yourself a few hundred times, you learn what works.
Gwen Stefani
When you craft something you create an eternity. When you tear down you hurt and you destroy, but anger doesn't last forever and soon your destruction is but dust under the muse of another's creation.
Matthew Williamson
Where should one use perfume?" a young woman asked. "Wherever one wants to be kissed.
Coco Chanel
A smile is the only infectious affliction everyone is encouraged to spread.
Omar Kiam
A story is the shortest distance between being a stranger and being a friend.
Paul Smith
I had a dream, which seemed so real,I was King of the world, so full of appeal,Upon waking I found I wasn't alone,In a kingdom called Home, sitting on a throne.
Omar Kiam
Attitude is everything.
Diane Von Furstenberg
Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.
Coco Chanel
Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
Coco Chanel
A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.
Coco Chanel
No matter the age, a woman who is unloved is lost - unloved she might as well die.
Coco Chanel
I always knew the woman i wanted to be- I knew I wanted to be a woman who was independant
Diane Von Furstenburg
I have a firm belief in such things as, you know, the water, the Earth, the trees and sky. And I'm wondering, it is increasingly difficult to find those elements in nature, because it's nature I believe in rather than some spiritual thing.
Bill Blass
Sometimes people have been stepping so long, they have forgotten what it's like to be stepped on.
Lauren Lilly Conrad
Character is beyond obligation. You could kick your shoes off at the door, flick your cigarete butts onto the sidewalk or talk only in slang, those things are forgivable if you have character
Novala Takemoto
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
Elsa Schiaparelli
Blame or credit, does not belong to the child alone. Parents, those who raised the child, must be given equal credit, or blame. That does not change, when the child is one, twenty or ninety years old.
Omar Kiam
Society has put up so many boundaries, so many limitations on what’s right and wrong that it’s almost impossible to get a pure thought out. It’s like a little kid, a little boy, looking at colors, and no one told him what colors are good, before somebody tells you you shouldn’t like pink because that’s for girls, or you’d instantly become a gay two-year-old. Why would anyone pick blue over pink? Pink is obviously a better color. Everyone’s born confident, and everything’s taken away from you
Kanye West
I really had no idea you'd be this stupid but then again you were the only person that really got me
Novala Takemoto