Dresses Quotes - Page 40

• I've worn a dress at my wedding. I've worn 6-inch Louboutins. I've got no fear and no shame.

  A. J. McLean

  Louboutins, No Fear, Shame

  "My Gay Interview With A Backstreet Boy: ‘I’m The Fag Hag’". Interview with Chris Azzopardi, pridesource.com. August 28, 2013.

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• A little black dress is something to rely on. To fill you with confidence and ease. To have an attitude that is pure and effortless, yet sexy and classy.

  Stella McCartney

  Sexy, Attitude, Black

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• The little black dress must be luxurious, rich, sensual, diaphanous, exotic, severe, lush, demure, demanding, frivolous, amusing, and it must linger in memory, but above all, it must be simple and little and black.

  Carolina Herrera

  Memories, Simple, Black

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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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• I have always been drawn to designing fashions that are rebellious, like black leather jackets on suburban kinds, a corset dress, punk, blue jeans. I love that. Fashion changes all the time, and what is considered extreme or elegant or luxurious (or not luxurious) is changing all the time.

  Jean Paul Gaultier

  Fashion, Blue, Leather Jackets

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• Unfortunately, the greatest photographers don't pay extreme attention to the clothes. If they decide to put a dress in a bathtub or in front of a cow in the countryside with dirt everywhere, well, the dresses come back... ready to be put in the garbage.

  Valentino Garavani

  Clothes, Attention, Pay

  Harper's Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com.au. August 10, 2010.

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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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• 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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• 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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• Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian conditions of existence. Many white-collar jobs require no more skill and pay even less than blue-collar jobs, conferring little status or security.

  Christopher Lasch

  Jobs, Blue, Class

  Christopher Lasch (1991). “The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations”, p.68, W. W. Norton & Company

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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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• London is one of the few cities where people still dress properly and fashion exists. Every day I see women who've thought about their outfits. They've picked out the bag, put on proper shoes. ... Do you know how rare it is in parts of America to actually see 'an outfit'? France? I don't want to be anti-French but there isn't a more unattractive group of people on the streets.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Cities, Shoes

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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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• Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of no use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed instrumentalities, or to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  White, Trying, Use

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.406, Harvard University Press

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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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• I have got one of those faces that change every day: you can dress me up, make me look vampy and then make me look 12 years old. But don't all women do this thing? We all take on these roles.

  Geri Halliwell

  Years, Roles, Looks

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• If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.

  Arthur Machen

  Dream, Men, Ties

  Arthur Machen (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Arthur Machen (Illustrated)”, p.1199, Delphi Classics

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• My mother…was perfectly horrified when I began shooting and tried to keep me in school, but I would run away and go quail shooting in the woods or trim my dresses with wreaths of wildflowers.

  Annie Oakley

  Mother, Running, School

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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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• My interest in society - at times so pronounced that the word snob comes a little to mind - derives from the fact that I like an immense number of things which society, money, and position bring in their train: painting, tapestries, rare books, smart dresses, dances, gardens, country houses, correct cuisine, and pretty women.

  Frank Crowninshield

  Country, Smart, Book

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• Quarterbacks should wear dresses.

  Jack Lambert

  Should, Quarterback

  "Super Bowl Hangover: Is the NFL Brand at Risk Due to Concussion Lawsuits?" by Christian Moritz, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 2012.

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