Quotes by Fashion Designers - Page 4

One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.
Karl Lagerfeld
Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
Yves Saint-Laurent
The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven't had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there.
Yves Saint-Laurent
Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans — it’s up to you.
Karl Lagerfeld
A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.
Christian Dior
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
Coco Chanel
A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.
Coco Chanel
The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
Yves Saint-Laurent
I believe in myself like a five-year-old believes in himself. They say look at me, look at me! Then they do a flip in the backyard. It won't even be that amazing, but everyone will be clapping for them.
Kanye West
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Coco Chanel
Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English--but are great in remembering signs
Karl Lagerfeld
Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.
Karl Lagerfeld
Most people are full of themselves and speak only the obnoxiously superficial, in other words they're annoying as hell
Novala Takemoto
True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.
Nicole Richie
It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it....
Nicole Richie
The only things that erased my lonliness were written works
Novala Takemoto
People shock me when they say they never read. When I was young, if people didn't read they would never admit it. Now, its quite acceptable to be anti-intellectual.
Joan Vass
The young need discipline and a full bookcase.
Vivienne Westwood
Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
Karl Lagerfeld
He says black, I say white and we do grey
Lazaro Hernandez
He says black, I say white and we do grey
Lazaro Hernandez
Everyday is one less day.
Tom Ford
I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.
Karl Lagerfeld
There is a time for work, and a time for love. That leaves no other time.
Coco Chanel
For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.
Karl Lagerfeld
Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.
Karl Lagerfeld
Real relationships - the kind that were supposed to last but never did - were more trouble than they were worth.
Lauren Conrad
I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.
Gloria Vanderbilt
Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently
Karl Lagerfeld
Unbreakable, would you thought they called me Mr. GlassLook back on my life like the ghost of Christmas pastToys R Us where I used to spend that Christmas cashAnd I still won't grow up, I'm a grown ass kidSwear I should be locked up for stupid shit that I didBut I'm a champion, so I turned tragedy to triumphMake music that's fire, spit my soul through the wire
Kanye West
For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them
Karl Lagerfeld
The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine
Karl Lagerfeld
Success is the best revenge.
Kanye West
Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore – and then you get something out of her
Karl Lagerfeld
Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive
Karl Lagerfeld
Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
Coco Chanel
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Coco Chanel
I don't subscribe to any religion so it didn't matter to me if I prayed in a shrine, temple, or church. Butbe cause I was asking for so much I assumed Buddha and the Christian God wouldn't even listen
Novala Takemoto
Live like there’s no tomorrow and learn as if your life depends on it
Omar Kiam
Years ago I asked my friend, the great actress Ruth Gordon, to articulate in a few words the secret to her indomitable, unsinkable spirit. Her reply was a gift that became a mantra for me:“It takes courage.It takes believing in it.It takes work.It takes rising above it.It takes me liking you, and you liking me.It takes the dreaming soul of the human race that wants it to go right.Never stop dreaming.Think about it.
Gloria Vanderbilt
Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests
Karl Lagerfeld
It's all possible and I'm living proof.
Ralph Lauren
I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.
Karl Lagerfeld
Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip.
Karl Lagerfeld
The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.
Karl Lagerfeld
I had an interview once with some German journalist—some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists—maybe a week after—and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, ‘It’s impolite; remove your glasses.’ I said, ‘Do I ask you to remove your bra?
Karl Lagerfeld
Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.
Karl Lagerfeld
I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.
Karl Lagerfeld
Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.
Karl Lagerfeld
The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.
Karl Lagerfeld
I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.
Karl Lagerfeld
Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.
Karl Lagerfeld
People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.
Karl Lagerfeld
Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
Karl Lagerfeld
The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.
Karl Lagerfeld
I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.
Karl Lagerfeld
Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.
Karl Lagerfeld
I exist here, now. I'm not much interested in the future. Or, more precisely put, I do not believe in the future. To exaggerate a little, I have no faith that I will still exist tomorrow or the day after. What is more, I absolutely detest retrospection. That dislike is balances only by my desire to make my way back home as quickly as possible.
Yohji Yamamoto
From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.
Tom Ford
To be happy--one must find one's bliss
Gloria Vanderbilt