Fashion Quotes - Page 9

• They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes. They shouldn't look like fashion victims.

  Ralph Lauren

  Beautiful, Thinking, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

  Golda Meir

  Reign, Imposition

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• By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.

  Issey Miyake

  Way, Size

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• It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.

  Gene Tierney

  Actors, Feels, Neurotic

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

  Mae West

  Funny, Women, Memorable

  "The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West".

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• Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?

  Dorothy Parker

  Heart, Men, Gowns

  "Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words".

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• 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

  Women, Jeans, Clothes

  "Karl Lagerfeld's Fashion Therapy". Harper's Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 13, 2009.

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• When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today.

  Caitlin Moran

  Mean, Today, Style Icons

  Caitlin Moran (2011). “How To Be a Woman”, p.211, Random House

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• Fashion somehow, for me, is purely and happily irrational.

  Hedi Slimane

  Irrational

  "Hedi Slimane: putting the flounce into fashion" by Viv Groskop, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2012.

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• I think that because I'm overweight, [my] fantasy was lightness. So I project my fantasy to the clothes, and now all I do is light, light clothes because it's the one thing I don't have. That is why I'm too afraid to lose weight because then I might make heavy clothes.

  Alber Elbaz

  Thinking, Clothes, Light

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• When you go to a nice restaurant, you want to be relaxed and have a drink and everything, you want to look at people who look well. You don't want to look at some slob with an open shirt and a hairy chest. At least I don't.

  Iris Apfel

  Nice, People, Want

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• What you wear is such an expression of who you are. That's like someone picking out who I'm going to date!

  Diane Kruger

  Expression, Who You Are

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• When you don't feel to dress means that you are depressed. You need a fashion shower.

  Anna Dello Russo

  Mean, Dresses, Needs

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• I've always worn jewellery but for a time it went out of fashion. Like grungy and punk bands didn't wear jewellery because it was stupid.

  Tom Jones

  Stupid, Band, Punk

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• I dress for women and I undress for men.

  Angie Dickinson

  Women, Men, Dresses

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• I would love to do a Western again if Westerns came back into fashion.

  Bruce Boxleitner

  Western, Ifs

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• I was such a late bloomer when it comes to fashion.

  Debra Messing

  Late

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• Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Ends, Obsolescence

  Marshall McLuhan (2010). “The Medium and the Light: Reflections on Religion and Media”, p.139, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion.

  Leigh Hunt

  Sacrifice

  Leigh Hunt (1873). “The Indicator, and the Companion: A Miscellany for the Fields and the Fire-side”, p.239

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• I think it's important that there is a change, especially in fashion.

  Devon Aoki

  Thinking, Important

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You are never to lose sight of nature; the instant you do, you are all abroad, at the mercy of every gust of fashion, without knowing or seeing the point to which you ought to steer.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Sight, Knowing, Mercy

  Sir Joshua Reynolds (1842). “The Discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.218

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• Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  Artist, Essentials, Novelty

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• The climax of absurdity to which art may be carried when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in the works of Boucher.

  John Constable

  Art, May, Absurdity

  John Constable (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)”, p.590, Delphi Classics

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• The changing styles are the expression of a restless search for something which shall commend itself to our aesthetic sense; but as each innovation is subject to the selective action of the norm of conspicuous waste, the range within which innovation can take place is somewhat restricted. The innovation must not only be more beautiful, or perhaps oftener less offensive, than that which it displaces, but it must also come up to the accepted standard of expensiveness.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Beautiful, Expression, Innovation

  Thorstein Veblen (1993). “A Veblen Treasury: From Leisure Class to War, Peace, and Capitalism”, p.93, M.E. Sharpe

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• The art world is now a fashion industry, led by its Whitney Biennial 'nose for the new look.' But nobody, it seems, has the guts or the brains to blow the necessary whistle and holler, 'Hold on guys! What the hell is this ugly bit of business?

  Abe Ajay

  Art, Blow, Guy

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