Madeleine Vionnet Quotes

• The dress must not hang on the body but follow its lines. When a woman smiles the dress must smile with her.

  Madeleine Vionnet

  Smile, Fashion, Clothes

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• The couturier should be a geometrician, for the human body makes
  geometrical figures to which the materials should correspond.

  Madeleine Vionnet

  Body, Figures, Should

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• Taste is the feeling that permits one to tell the difference between what is beautiful and what is merely spectacular.

  Madeleine Vionnet

  Beautiful, Differences, Feelings

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• I only like decoration if it plays second to the architecture of a dress.

  Madeleine Vionnet

  Play, Dresses, Architecture

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• If a woman smiles, her dress must also smile.

  Madeleine Vionnet

  Dresses, Ifs

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• Insofar as one can talk of a Vionnet school, it comes mostly from my having been an enemy of fashion. There is something superficial and volatile about the seasonal and elusive whims of fashion which offends my sense of beauty.

  Madeleine Vionnet

  Fashion, School, Enemy

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