Fashion Quotes - Page 36

• Oh, wondrous power! how little understood, Entrusted to the mother's mind alone, To fashion genius, form the soul for good, Inspire a West, or train a Washington.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Mother, Inspire, Soul

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1848). “Three Hours: Or, The Vigil of Love: and Other Poems”, p.90

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• When you don't understand the fashion world you're just grateful you get to wear good clothes.

  Anton Yelchin

  Grateful, Clothes, World

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• People in the fashion industry have used the press a lot more than people in the film industry, because you have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything.

  Elle Macpherson

  People, Film, Used

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• I remember sitting at the end of my mum's bed being fascinated by her ritual of getting dressed. It was a very methodical and considered process. I suppose you could say she was my first real muse.

  Matthew Williamson

  Real, Bed, Sitting

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• I've always done the style that I loved, so I didn't mind sending an old pair of jeans down the runway. It's about that style. It's not Hedi Slimane. You know, I'm not all that familiar with his thing-I really don't look. I certainly know who he is.

  Hedi Slimane

  Jeans, Style, Mind

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• It's a secret language, known to all different people, in different ways, that enables them to read a subliminal message without realising they're reading it. It affects people on many levels, and even people who think they're not into fashion, or reject fashion are then being informed just in the case of rejecting it. The fact that they had to react against it was a conscious decision.

  Louise Wilson

  Reading, Thinking, People

  "Remembering Louise Wilson OBE". AnOther Interview, origin.anothermag.com. May 17, 2014.

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• I think it's important that there is a change, especially in fashion. I'm pleased to be part of a 'new breed' of models who perhaps don't exactly fit the status quo.

  Devon Aoki

  Thinking, Important, Fit

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

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• It's pathetic to have regrets about fashion. Things to do with my life, yes, I have regrets there.

  Simon Le Bon

  Regret, Things To Do, Pathetic

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• The new fashion is to talk about the most private parts of your life; other fashion is to repent of your excesses and to criticize the drugs that made you happy in the other times.

  Mick Jagger

  Drug, Excess, Made

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• Oh, they've been putting in the long hours ... But is that because they don't have the skills, and everything takes twice as long? Or do they put in these hours to avoid what they should be doing ... which is stopping and binning a lot of [their work]?

  Louise Wilson

  Skills, Long, Stopping

  "The fashion stars of Central Saint Martins". Interview with Johnny Davis, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2010.

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• I often ask students: 'Is this what you would show Tom Ford?' and they say: 'No, we'd have done more work' or 'We'd have dressed better.' So I say: 'Why don't you do that here?'

  Louise Wilson

  Done, Students, Shows

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• Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.

  Fatima Siad

  People, Television, Waste

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• It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Culture, Exile, Has Beens

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• Ann Taylor - great name, great real estate, shitty business. Gap -great name, great real estate, declining business. J.Crew - Hellooo? Great name, better fashion image than the Gap.

  Millard Drexler

  Real, Humorous, Names

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• There is no better designer than nature

  Alexander McQueen

  Design, Designer, Design In Nature

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• A lot of people believe that you don't need to know the history and that creates newness. I disagree: we should always be informed and then destroy it.

  Louise Wilson

  Believe, People, Needs

  "Remembering Louise Wilson OBE". Interview with Donatien Grau, origin.anothermag.com. January 2013.

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• Students may feel the criticism is harsh, but I think it's possible they haven't had criticism before. It's my job to point out when something is badly done, or when there's no point of view. To build a brand you have to have something about you. If not personality, then some thought process. I'm 40, and they're young, so they're meant to be informing me. They should be bringing me a book or something that I haven't seen, not like some obscure chant book by Dominican monks, but an image of the way they see the world.

  Louise Wilson

  Jobs, Book, Thinking

  Interview with Lee Carter, www.hintmag.com.

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• It is a fact that, in the West, we live in a capitalist society, but that does not mean that we cannot be guided by the idea of a social conscience in our work. Yes, fashion design requires consumers to consume, but we can do our bit for society by running our companies in a socially responsible way, and by creating products that promote respect for social and environmental issues. There is also the possibility for power and influence to be a force for change.

  Giorgio Armani

  Change, Running, Mean

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• In order to be able to live at all in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.

  Alice Walker

  Order, America, Justice

  Alice Walker, Barbara Christian (1994). “Everyday Use”, p.79, Rutgers University Press

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• The message of a leopard-print jumpsuit is clear: 'I am a huntress who delights in eating the offal of her prey.'

  Simon Doonan

  Leopards, Delight, Messages

  Simon Doonan (2008). “Eccentric Glamour: Creating an Insanely More Fabulous You”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• What's becoming very obvious to me is that fashion is art.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Art, Becoming, Style Icons

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• You're considered superficial and silly if you are interested in fashion....But I think you can be substantial and still be interested in frivolity.

  Sofia Coppola

  Silly, Thinking, Superficial

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

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• If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lonely, New York, Coffee

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1425, Delphi Classics

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• Now, we're just imitating and imitating and imitating what we've done before. The real revolution on how we make clothes and how we wear clothes is about to come. I don't know if we should be afraid or not. That's when we're going to see a Steve Jobs in the industry.

  Norma Kamali

  Jobs, Real, Clothes

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• My school is the world, and my teacher is the people. It is very important not to stay cloistered in the office if you want to create. We have to go out in society to understand how people live and dress in their real lives.

  Alberta Ferretti

  Teacher, Real, School

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