Fashion Quotes - Page 37

• We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions. No woman can be well dressed unless she is comfortable in what she is wearing.

  Bill Blass

  Reality, Perception, Style

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• In order to look special wearing the chancy unique; it must be worn with your persona, and if the two don't blend, then the look becomes pear-shaped.

  David Bowie

  Unique, Clothes, Order

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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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• I love fashion, but I'm not obsessed with it.

  Christy Turlington

  Style, Obsessed, I Love Fashion

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It doesn't matter one damn bit whether fashion is art or not. You don't question whether an incredible chef is an artist or not-his cakes are delicious and that's all that matters.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Art, Cake, Matter

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• I've used a lot of jersey, but I've also done a lot of complex pattern weaves in these fabrics in solid colors, and there are lots of little dresses for cocktail and evening. I've done a series of very important evening dresses as well, just to show that these two ideas can also work well together. Today's woman can wear an important evening dress or a simple pant and top. It's all in the personality of the woman.

  Giorgio Armani

  Simple, Color, Ideas

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• I am especially grateful that I have been able to keep my own style over the decades, in spite of the many changes that have taken place in the world of fashion and in its business.

  Valentino Garavani

  Taken, Grateful, Style

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• It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without a choice of fabric - without a practical or visual reality.

  Giorgio Armani

  Eye, Reality, Drawing

  "Talk Asia" with Anna Coren, edition.cnn.com. June 22, 2012.

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• Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don't care, that's a decision. There's something you're trying to say.

  Felicity Jones

  Choices, Decision, Trying

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• I think the moment that I'm very proud of is building a business without using animals. And, hopefully, changing people's perception of how you can do luxury fashion.

  Stella McCartney

  Animal, Thinking, Luxury

  Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 04, 2012.

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• Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, War, Lechery

  'Troilus And Cressida' (1602) act 5, sc. 2, l. 192

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• I get inspiration from movies, from fashion, then completely random things you'd never think of.

  Santigold

  Inspiration, Thinking, Random Things

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• I am what I am. Before I was not so proud to make fashion. My family thought fashion wasn't very interesting. So I hid that.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Interesting, Proud, My Family

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• I like individuality in fashion - it annoys me when celebrities put on a bodycon dress and a pair of high heels and suddenly they are 'style icons.'

  Georgie Henley

  High Heels, Icons, Individuality

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• The '90s were really just bad for fashion and hair.

  Emilia Clarke

  Hair

  "‘Game of Thrones’ Emilia Clarke On Daenerys’ ‘Blueprint’ For The Future". Interview with Maureen Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 27, 2012.

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• I like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion.

  Anni-Frid Lyngstad

  Thinking, Slave, Conscious

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• Now that cleverness was the fashion most people were clever - even perfect fools; and cleverness after all was often only a bore: all head and no body

  Walter de La Mare

  Clever, People, Perfect

  Walter de La Mare (2013). “The Return”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• It is much simpler and easier to collect and caress the trophies of our democratic inheritance than it is to fashion up-to-date tools with which to work on our current problems.

  Charles Ferguson

  Justice, Diversity, Trophies

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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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• 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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• I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows.

  Janette Barber

  Clever, Thinking, Hair

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• No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Regret, Reading, Loss

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.43

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• The vast majority of Airmen we train are going to be somewhere in harm's way within the next year or two. It is up to us to impart to them the talent and skill they need to accomplish their mission in a world-class fashion and at the same time make sure we get them back safely to the families that love them.

  William R. Looney III

  Military, Years, Class

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• Don't let some random comment that you wouldn't have even thought about overshadow something important that you were actually trying to say.

  Lorde

  Feminism, Important, Trying

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• People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.

  Margaret Mead

  Dream, Ambition, White

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