Fashion Quotes - Page 12

• Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.

  E. M. Forster

  Clothes, Deep Life, Transcendentalism

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.448, Delphi Classics

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• A beautiful dress may look beautiful on a hanger, but that means nothing. It must be seen on the shoulders, with the movement of the arms, the legs, and the waist.

  Coco Chanel

  Beautiful, Mean, Clothes

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• I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.

  Alexander McQueen

  People, Want, Dresses

  "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty review - superficially magnificent" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2015.

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• Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.

  Coco Chanel

  Beauty, Thinking, White

  "Chanel". Book by Jean Leymarie, 1987.

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• The first rule that a geisha is taught, at the age of nine, is to be charming to other women...Every girl in the world should have geisha training.

  Diana Vreeland

  Girl, Should Have, Training

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• I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Sunglasses, Radiance, Jewelry

  Twitter post from May 01, 2013

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• You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap!

  Dolly Parton

  Funny Valentines Day, Funny Relationship, Looks

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2015

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• Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.

  Christian Dior

  Beauty, Zest, Design

  Ladies' Home Journal, April 1956.

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• You gotta have style. It helps you get down the stairs. It helps you get up in the morning. It's a way of life. Without it, you're nobody.

  Diana Vreeland

  Morning, Style, Way

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• Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of the future, and should never be static.

  Oleg Cassini

  Mirrors, Style, Mind

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• There's never a new fashion but it's old.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

  Quentin Crisp

  Sad, Being Yourself, Teenage

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• I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.

  Gilda Radner

  Witty, Funny Inspirational, Life And Love

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• Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.

  Charles Churchill

  Knavery, Use, May

  1761 The Rosciad, l.455-6.

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• Fashion seldom interferes with nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Grace, Efficiency, Interfere

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1852). “The Optimist: A Series of Essays”, p.248

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• I always say I hope to God I die in a town with a good tailor, a good shoemaker, and perhaps someone who's interested in a little quelque chose d'autre.

  Diana Vreeland

  Littles, Tailors, Towns

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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• Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Style, Dull

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• Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.

  William Hazlitt

  Issues, Clothes, Vain

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.205

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• The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Fool, Rich

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• When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.

  M. H. Abrams

  Thinking, People, Complaining

  "Honored literary scholar M.H. Abrams continues his labors (of love)". Interview with Linda Grace-Kobas, news.cornell.edu. June 11, 1999.

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• I often take a brand-new suit or hat and throw it up against the wall a few times to get that stiff, square newness out of it.

  Fred Astaire

  Wall, Squares, Suits

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• Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.

  Diana Vreeland

  World, Release, Banality

  Diana Vreeland (1985). “D.V.”, Vintage

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• Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality.

  Alexander McQueen

  Looks, Pieces, Sexuality

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• If you are trying to slip out without waking a sleeping man, zips are a nightmare. Haven't you ever tried to creep out of the room unnoticed the following morning? I've done that many times.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Morning, Sleep, Men

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• If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed, but either too stiff, too tight, or too fashionable.

  Beau Brummell

  People, Looks, Well Dressed

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