Quotes of the Week - March 9, 2010:
"Young players, young boys, rich boys - this is the problem."
-- Fabio Capello the England soccer football manager, says money is
spoiling the game.
"I want you to know, Mrs Obama, that I'm your husband's No 1 fan.
And not just because he's a black man. He's mixed. And I wouldn't really
know what that looks like anyway." --Stevie Wonder greets Michelle
Obama, wife of US president.
"I've only been with two men my entire life. I've never even come
close to having a one-night stand." -- Actress Megan Fox says she
is no man-eater.
Topic: Fashion Quotes - Famous Fashion
Quotes, Quotations, Sayings
Fashions fade, style is eternal. Yves Saint Laurent
Dumpy frump a fashion disaster. New York Post headline On Prince Charles's wife Camilla during
their visit to the USA.
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
If you are not in fashion, you are nobody. Lord Chesterfield
Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is
attractive without zest. Christian Dior
The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you
go. Life is too short to blend in. Paris Hilton
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of
fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. Anthony Burgess
Elegance is a question of personality, more than one's clothing. Jean-Paul Gaultier
Style is primarily a matter of instinct. Bill Blass
I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty,
sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes. Yves Saint Laurent
I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not
for fashion, not for men. Marlene Dietrich
Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying
to other women. Elsa Schiaparelli
A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes. Edith Head
Only great minds can afford a simple style. Stendal
About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are
total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs. Manolo Blahnik
When in doubt, wear red. Bill Blass
The difference between style and fashion is quality. Giorgio Armani
I don't do fashion, I am fashion. Coco Chanel
Fashion is as profound and critical a part of the social life
of man as sex, and is made up of the same ambivalent mixture
of irresistible urges and inevitable taboos. Rene Konig
They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for
his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
A good model can advance fashion by ten years. Yves Saint Laurent
I don't design clothes. I design dreams. Ralph Lauren
A woman's dress should be like a barbedwire fence: serving its
purpose without obstructing the view. Sophia Loren
Fashion is architecture. It is a matter of proportions. Coco Chanel
People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry,
but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive. Calvin Klein
The goal I seek is to have people refine their style through
my clothing without having them become victims of fashion. Giorgio Armani
When a person is in fashion, all they do is right. Lord Chesterfield
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously
the new. Henry David Thoreau
There are a lot of gay people in fashion, but it's not as if
every gay person is a great creator. Calvin Klein
Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are. Quentin Crisp
There has been a change in men's attitudes toward their clothes.
Men are more aware of fashion; they're not afraid of it. Calvin Klein
I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can't accept
that it should originate there. Coco Chanel
In difficult times fashion is always outrageous. Elsa Schiaparelli
Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror
of the time in which we live, a translation of the future, and
should never be static. Oleg Cassini
I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty
little pleats: it was the girls I liked. David Bailey
I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of
the fashion alphabet. Giorgio Armani
They seek him here, they seek him there,
His clothes are loud, but never square.
It will make or break him so he's got to buy the best,
'Cause he's a dedicated follower of fashion. The Kinks Dedicated Follower of Fashion, song written
by R. D. Davies.
The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions
of the generation before last. George Bernard Shaw
A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we
are compelled to alter it every six months. Oscar Wilde
Fashion is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas. Bruce Oldfield
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with
the desire to seem rather than to be. Edwin Hubbel
I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. Gilda Radner
It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions. Voltaire
Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias,
quilted bags and Austrian doorman's jackets, pearls, chains,
shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play
with. Karl Lagerfeld
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with
time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things
which always become ugly with time. Jean Cocteau
Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are. Quentin Crisp
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend
on simplicity. Plato
The dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following
the shape of the dress. Hubert de Givenchy
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without
reason and imitation without benefit. George Santayana
Today, fashion is really about sensuality-how a woman feels
on the inside. In the '80s women used suits with exaggerated
shoulders and waists to make a strong impression. Women are
now more comfortable with themselves and their bodies-they no
longer feel the need to hide behind their clothes. Donna Karan
There is no fashion for the old. Coco Chanel
So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date. Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Respect is love in plain clothes. Frankie Byrne
Fashion is made to become unfashionable. Coco Chanel
The lamb began to follow the wolf in sheep's clothing. Aesop
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. Ralph Waldo Emerson
She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork. Jonathan Swift
When his wife asked him to change clothes to meet the German
Ambassador: If they want to see me, here I am. If they want
to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits. Albert Einstein
Clothes don't make a man, but clothes have got many a man a
good job. Herbert Harold Vreeland
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's
clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear. Anatole France
We live not according to reason, but according to fashion. Seneca
Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight
Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. Dave Barry
While clothes may not make the woman, they certainly have a
strong effect on her self-confidence - which, I believe, does
make the woman. Mary Kay Ashe
Above all, remember that the most important thing you can take
anywhere is not a Gucci bag or French-cut jeans; it's an open
mind. Gail Rubin Bereny
The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through
street grates. Dave Barry
The dress is a vase which the body follows. My clothes are like
modules in which bodies move. Pierre Cardin
I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding
which clothes to wear. Katharine Hepburn
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence
on society. Mark Twain
The expression a woman wears on her face is more important than
the clothes she wears on her back. Dale Carnegie
Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make
ourselves its slave. Napoleon Bonaparte
What a deformed thief this fashion is. William Shakespeare
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful
with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things
which always become ugly with time. Jean Cocteau
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to
alter it every six months. Oscar Wilde
The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing, 3. 3
The fashion of this world passeth away. Bible, 1 Corinthians