Dresses Quotes - Page 28

• When women do succeed, the press, even the industry press, spend far too much time talking about how we dress, what shoes we're wearing, who we're meant to be seeing. That's pretty sad for women, especially when it's written by women who really should know better.

  Zaha Hadid

  Success, Shoes, Talking

  "I don't do nice" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2006.

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• At least I get my little black dress cleaned once in awhile.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Black, Littles

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• Yes I had to dress up in drag but what fun. And now I feel like a real lady.

  Robbie Williams

  Fun, Real, Appearance

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• I was a bookworm, and very skinny with big, thick glasses. I never went on dates and guys were afraid of me because I was smart. So I got contact lenses, started to dress a little better and tried not to talk about Plato with boys. It worked!

  Julianne Moore

  Plato, Smart, Boys

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• It's better to be dead, or even perfectly well, than to suffer from the wrong affliction. The man who owns up to arthritis in a beri-beri year is as lonely as a woman in a last month's dress.

  John Forbes Nash

  Lonely, Men, Years

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• When I wear a really nice and classy dress out, the papers never print it.

  Jodie Marsh

  Nice, Paper, Print

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• A dim capacity for wings demeans the dress I wear.

  Emily Dickinson

  Philosophy, Wings, Capacity

  Emily Dickinson, James Reeves (1959). “Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.83, Heinemann

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• I like Halloween. It gives you a chance to dress up like something you're not, you know? Like when the Miami Dolphins put on football uniforms.

  David Letterman

  Football, Halloween, Miami Dolphins

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• Fashion has become a joke. The designers have forgotten that there are women inside the dresses. Most women dress for men and want to be admired. But they must also be able to move, to get into a car without bursting their seams! Clothes must have a natural shape.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Moving, Men

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• I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fashion, Design, Black

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• It was so cold in New York City today that the Statue of Liberty had her torch under her dress.

  David Letterman

  New York, Cities, Liberty

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• It is not easy to dress well.

  Jil Sander

  Easy, Wells

  "Jil Sander: 'If I had the power I would ban leggings'". Interview with Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2011.

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• In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Morning, Dark, Gun

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• She comes out of the sun in a silk dress, running like a water color in the rain.

  Al Stewart

  Running, Rain, Expression

  Song: The Year Of The Cat

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• You men out there probably think you already know how to dress for success. You know, for example, that you should not wear leisure suits or white plastic belts and shoes, unless you are going to a costume party disguised as a pig farmer vacationing at Disney World.

  Dave Barry

  Humorous, Party, Men

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• People think modeling's mindless, that you just stand there and pose, but it doesn't have to be that way. I like to have a lot of input. I know how to wear a dress, whether it should be shot with me standing up or sitting.

  Linda Evangelista

  Thinking, People, Sitting Down

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

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• I think my daughter actually influences my style more than having boys. I tend to dress more masculine with pants or shorts or flat boots, and she makes me want to dress more stylish, more girly.

  Kourtney Kardashian

  Daughter, Girly, Boys

  "Exclusive: Kourtney Kardashian On Keeping Up With Three Kids". Interview with Kerry Pieri, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 7, 2015.

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• When my mother was trying to teach me how to make friends when I was a kid, she'd bring girls over to the house and I'd give them all my clothes. Nothing changes, I still do it. And then I wonder, "Where is that really nice Isabel Marant dress that I spent a fortune on? Oh my god, I gave it to Liza."

  Courtney Love

  Girl, Mother, Nice

  Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. May 1, 2014.

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• I think to be a true style icon, you just have to dress yourself. There are so many actresses floating around who have people picking out their outfits for them; that's hard for me to wrap my head around or celebrate.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Thinking, Icons, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My aim is to create the perfect dress!

  Victoria Beckham

  Perfect, Aim

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• As I grew up and began identifying myself as a feminist, there were plenty of issues that continued to make me question marriage: the father "giving" the bride away, women taking their husband's last name, the white dress, the vows promising to "obey" the groom. And that only covers the wedding.

  Jessica Valenti

  Husband, Father, Names

  "My big feminist wedding" by Jessica Valenti, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2009.

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• Women particularly can dress modestly and in the process contribute to their own self­ respect and to the moral purity of men. In the end, most women get the type of man they dress for.

  Tad R. Callister

  Men, Self, Moral

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• In the end, most women get the type of man they dress for.

  Tad R. Callister

  Men, Ends, Type

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• When Princess Diana got married, I was a very little kid, I think. I remember her dress, and I found the dress amazing when I was a kid.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Princess, Kids, Thinking

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• I haven't made many wedding dresses. It's a dress very, very important for the girl; it's important to know the person, I believe, but at the same time it should be a shock to the person - the person should be shocked to be suddenly revealed. That's the work of a designer sometimes, to propose an ID of look.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Girl, Believe, Important

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