Dresses Quotes - Page 23

• I used to dress up as a model for Halloween, like every year.

  Chanel Iman

  Halloween, Years, Used

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• I very much related to the idea of sexual identity and how it doesn't have to be black and white. When I first came out, there would be butch people in baseball caps, and that wasn't me, and then there were girls in heels and dresses, and that didn't feel like that was me either. But after a while I learned there's a lot of ground in between.

  Dee Rees

  Girl, Baseball, Black And White

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• Have I ever been horrified to see someone in my clothes? Many times, but I close my eyes and look the other way. That happens to everyone. What can you do? Go and tell her, 'Don't wear that dress again'? We designers always have fantasies in our heads, but the difficult task is to make them reality. Because you can be the best designer, but designing in your own place and with nobody wearing [your clothes], then what happens? You're nowhere.

  Carolina Herrera

  Eye, Reality, Clothes

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• The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process.

  Gianfranco Ferre

  Cities, House, Design

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• The European boys have small ideas but they sure know how to dress 'em up.

  George Gershwin

  Boys, Ideas, Ems

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• People are more interested in ideas than dress.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Ideas, People

  "Pierre Elliott Trudeau" profile in "The Greatest Canadian" at CBC, October 29, 2004.

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• A woman should dress to attract attention. To attract the most attention, a woman should be either nude, or wearing something as expensive as getting her nude is going to be.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Attention, Should, Expensive

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.251, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Our democracy, our culture, our whole way of life is a spectacular triumph of the blah. Why not have a political convention without politics to nominate a leader who's out in front of nobody? Maybe our national mindlessness is the very thing that keeps us from turning into one of those smelly European countries full of pseudo-reds and crypto-fascists and greens who dress like forest elves.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Country, America, Leader

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• Sexual excitability is increased and leads to hasty engagements, marriages by the newspaper, improper love-adventures, conspicuous behaviour, fondness for dress, on theother hand to jealousy and matrimonial discord.

  Emil Kraepelin

  Adventure, Hands, Bipolar

  "Lifetime Editions of Kraepelin in English: Manic-depressive insanity and paranoia".

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• General, get up dress quick you are a prisoner!

  John S. Mosby

  War, Get Up, Prisoner

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• Dress designing, incidentally, is to me not a profession but an art.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Art, Design, Profession

  "Shocking Life".

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• When I was nine years, growing up on the south side of Chicago, in the ghetto. The Robert Taylor Projects. I came home from school, I showed my mother a picture and said "Momma, that's you in the rocking chair. There's daddy over there." I said, "Momma, one of these days, I'm gonna be big and strong. I'm gonna be a football player. I'm gonna be a boxer. I'm gonna buy you a beautiful house and I'm gonna buy you pretty dresses." That's all I want to do in life.

  Mr. T

  Beautiful, Football, Mother

  Source: chicagoist.com

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• My friend George and I were walking on the beach in Norfolk, and there were thousands of [razor-clam] shells. They were so beautiful, I thought I had to do something with them. So, we decided to make [a dress] out of them. . . . The shells had outlived their usefulness on the beach, so we put them to another use on a dress. Then Erin [O’Conner] came out and trashed the dress, so their usefulness was over once again. Kind of like fashion, really.

  Alexander McQueen

  Beautiful, Fashion, Beach

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• What I do is look at ancient African tribes, and the way they dress. The rituals of how they dress. . . . There's a lot of tribalism in the collections.

  Alexander McQueen

  African Tribes, Looks, Way

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• Yves Saint Laurent gave women power, Chanel liberated them and when I joined Lanvin, I thought 'what do I bring to women? One day, I received an SMS from a friend in New York - she was in a taxi on the way to court to face her arsehole ex-husband, and she said to me 'Alber, I am wearing a Lanvin dress, and I feel so protected.' That to me was the biggest compliment I ever received. To have a 500 gram piece of silk make her feel protected - that made me very happy indeed.

  Alber Elbaz

  New York, Husband, One Day

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• And this is what we called our childhoods. Little more than a dress rehearsal for adding our digits to the butcher's bill of war.

  Stefan Molyneux

  War, Childhood, Rehearsal

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• If you dress a new something in old habits, it’s easier for the public to accept it.

  Charles Duhigg

  Old Habits, Accepting, Easier

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• The picture of me is nearly finished, and I think it is magnificent.  The green and blue of the dress is splendid, and the expression as Lady Macbeth holds the crown over her head is quite wonderful.

  Ellen Terry

  Thinking, Blue, Expression

  Dame Ellen Terry (1908). “The Story of My Life: Recollections and Reflections”

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• I believe someone should be able to dress according to the mood they're in. It shouldn't be forced and you shouldn't have to follow a trend.

  Cher Lloyd

  Believe, Trends, Able

  "17 Minutes With Cher Lloyd". Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. June 18, 2012.

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• Iconic clothing has been secularized. . . . A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as the blood he hopes to shed. Seen on a coat-hanger, with no man inside it, the uniform loses all its blustering significance and, to the innocent eye seduced by decorative colour and tactile braid, it is as abstract in symbolic information as a parasol to an Eskimo. It becomes simply magnificent.

  Angela Carter

  Hope, Eye, Men

  Angela Carter (1998). “Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings”, Penguin Group USA

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• Child of woe is wane and delicate... sensitive and on the quiet side, she loves the picnics and outings to the underground caverns... a solemn child, prim in dress and, on the whole, pretty lost... secretive and imaginative, poetic, seems underprivileged and given to occasional tantrums... has six toes on one foot.

  Charles Addams

  Children, Feet, Tantrums

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

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• My friend told me he was going to a fancy-dress party as an Italian island. I said: 'Don’t be Sicily’.

  Tim Vine

  Party, Italian, Islands

  "Tim Vine: the man behind the masterful one-liner" by William Langley, www.telegraph.co.uk. August 23, 2014.

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• I liked women as a shape to dress.

  Gianni Versace

  Shapes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I dress women the way I see them and the way I envision them from day one, thus my customer knows that what she is looking for she will get.

  Rachel Roy

  Way, Customers, Knows

  "Interview: Entrepreneur & Designer Rachel Roy". Interview with Felicia C. Sullivan, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2009.

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• I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.

  Rachel Roy

  Feet, Video, Want

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