Fashion Quotes - Page 6

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.

Charles Baudelaire

1. Find your own style and have the courage to stick to it.2. Choose your clothes for your way of life.3. Make your wardrobe as versatile as an actress. It should be able to play many roles.4. Find your happiest colours - the ones that make you feel good.5. Care for your clothes, like the good friends they are!

One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery.

What a strange power there is in clothing.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Under the pink Harlequin sunglasses strawberry dangling charms, and sugar-frosted eyeshadow she was really almost beautiful.

Francesca Lia Block

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

Why nowadays there's a new fashion every day.

In all, his outfit required nearly two thousand man-years of research and development, eight barrels of oil, and sixteen patent and trademark infringement lawsuits. All so he could possess casual style. A style that, in logistical requirements, was comparable to fielding a nineteenth-century military brigade.But he looked good. Casual.

I put on some make-up, turn on the 8-track, and I'm pulling the wig down from the shelf - suddenly I'm Miss Punk Rock Star of Stage and Screen and I ain't ever turning back!

John Cameron Mitchell

French girls still have the Jane Birkin culture. You can go just like that, without makeup, without managing your hair.

From time to time, you may see a girl wearing her black opaque tights as pants. They are, in fact, not.

I think in black.

Oliver liked to play the part of disaffected youth, but he liked shopping in SoHo even more.

Melissa de la Cruz

You make all the fashion statements just by dressing up your mind.

When does a fake Mohawk become a real Mohawk? Who decides? How do you know if it's happened?

[Looking like a straight girl] means wearing clothes that seek and destroy comfort. These are garments designed by gay men to attract heterosexual men. The straight girl is simply the hanger for an inside joke.

Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us.

Any actress who appears in public without being well-groomed is digging her own grave.

The most important thing to wear is a smile.

It's not a concert you are seeing, it's a fashion show.

Freddie Mercury

You could dress it up with a sequined headband,” Magnus suggested, offering his boyfriend something blue and sparkly. “Just a thought.” “Resist the urge, Alec.” Simon was sitting on the edge of a low wall with Maia beside him, though she appeared to be deep in conversation with Aline. “You’ll look like Olivia Newton-John in Xanadu.” “There are worse things,” Magnus observed.

Cassandra Clare

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

There's more to clothing than just adornment. It does more than merely change how the world perceives us. It changes how we perceive ourselves.

Jacqueline Carey

What I really love about them... is the fact that they contain someone's personal history...I find myself wondering about their lives. I can never look at a garment... without thinking about the woman who owned it. How old was she? Did she work? Was she married? Was she happy?... I look at these exquisite shoes, and I imagine the woman who owned them rising out of them or kissing someone...I look at a little hat like this, I lift up the veil, and I try to imagine the face beneath it... When you buy a piece of vintage clothing you're not just buying the fabric and thread - you're buying a piece of someone's past.

I've no idea when I'm going to wear it, the girl replied calmly. I only knew that I had to have it. Once I tried it on, well... She shrugged. The dress claimed me.

The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.

Buy less, choose well & do it yourself!

Vivienne Westwood

What do you want?" Sophronia was moved to exasperation."Me? Stockings and breeches to come back in fashion. I do miss seeing a man's calves.

Okay, let's see if I got this straight. The butt is the new breast, and the lower back is the new ankle. Now if only we could figure out where the brain has moved.

Celia Rivenbark

I'm so not interesting in having to try and make something out of foil."What, you didn't like the poncho with wraparound leggings?"It was beyond hideou- wait a minute. You watch that show?"My mom loves it."But your suppose to be sulking in the basement getting ready to light fires."What can I say? I'm a failure as a teenager. I watch TV with my mom.

Elizabeth Scott

The imprint of Miss Hepburn is absolutely, totally present. Like it or not, she will be the most important look of the twentieth century.

And once we reach the city, my stylist will dictate my look for the opening ceremonies tonight anyway. I just hope I get one who doesn't think nudity is the last word in fashion.

Suzanne Collins

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

Whoever said that money can't buy happiness, simply didn't know where to go shopping

Bo Derek

It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.

L.M. Montgomery

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.

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

As she always did on any really important day, Penelope Hayes wore red.

I'm sure they didn't notice anything but you. You should wear flames more often," he says. "They suit you.

Suzanne Collins

It costs a lot of money to look this cheap

It was my friend Frank, a writer in San Francisco, who finally set me straight. When asked about my new look he put down his fork and stared at me for a few moments. "A bow tie announces to the world you can no longer get an erection.

People always ask me how long it takes to do my hair. I don’t know, I’m never there.

I believe that treating other people well is a lost art.

Tim Gunn

Are you in fashion? You look like you're in fashion.""No," [Magnus] said. "I am fashion.

Cassandra Clare

this blue shirt i have is practically the same color as my jeans, and looking all-blue is something only cookie monster can pull off.

Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.

Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool

Aesop

Sometimes comfort doesn't matter. When a shoe is freakin' fabulous, it may be worth a subsequent day of misery. Soak in Epsom salts and take comfort in the fact that you're better than everyone else.

You look... amazing!" And I have to say, I agree. I'm wearing all black - but expensive black. The kind of deep, soft black that you fall into. A simple sleeveless dress from Whistles, the highest of Jimmy Choos, a pair of stunning uncut amethyst earrings. And please don't ask how much it all cost, because that's irrelevant. This is investment shopping. The biggest investment of my life. I haven't eaten anything all day so I'm nice and thin and for once my hair has fallen perfectly into shape. I look... well, I've never looked better in my life.But of course, looks are only part of the package, aren't they?

Sophie Kinsella

I don't suppose I can wear the flamingo tie," he said as he pulled on black socks. "It's a bit festive, given the occasion," I responded. "Can't wear it to the opera," said the Colonel, almost smiling. "Can't wear it to a funeral. Can't use it to hang myself. It's a bit useless, as ties go." I gave him a tie.

High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

Christopher Morley

I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Bow ties are cool.

A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

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.

I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Henry David Thoreau

[Piper] rushed to get dressed. By the time she got up on deck, the others had already gathered—all hastily dressed except for Coach Hedge, who had pulled the night watch. Frank’s Vancouver Winter Olympics shirt was inside out. Percy wore pajama pants and a bronze breastplate, which was an interesting fashion statement. Hazel’s hair was all blown to one side as though she’d walked through a cyclone; and Leo had accidentally set himself on fire. His T-shirt was in charred tatters. His arms were smoking.

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