Fashion Quotes - Page 40

• Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees. Mine lived in palaces. It has been suggested to me that I am a bit of a snob. How true! I prefer to be.

  Raymond Chandler

  Cat, Tree, Tails

  Raymond Chandler (1987). “Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler”, Delta

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• Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

  Lana Del Rey

  Inspiration, Past, Nostalgia

  "Lana Del Rey is 'oh so pretty' for 'British Vogue'" by Andi Teran, www.mtv.com. February 2, 2012.

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• Fashion is quite inclusive and good at embracing different things and different forms of beauty. It's a very liberal industry. You can be yourself. Just not overweight.

  Andrej Pejic

  Being Yourself, Different, Form

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• Fashion has become a joke. The designers have forgotten that there are women inside the dresses.

  Coco Chanel

  Dresses, Forgotten, Designer

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• One might almost fear," writes a thoughtful woman, "seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some new fashion or faith, that heaven is not so near to them as it was to their mothers and grandmothers.

  Samuel Smiles

  Running, Mother, Writing

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• Own what you are, and I mean whether that's art, or whether that's fashion, or whether that's music, or whether that's acting, or whether that's politics, or whether that's literature; it's own what you are, and grab it, and, you know, be as prolific as possible.

  Courtney Love

  Art, Mean, Acting

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• Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.

  Coco Chanel

  Long, Advice, Dresses

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• There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.

  Francis Bacon

  Truth, Discovery, Two

  Francis Bacon (2012). “The Great Instauration”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• But medicine has long had all its means to hand, and has discovered both a principle and a method, through which the discoveries made during a long period are many and excellent, while full discovery will be made, if the inquirer be competent, conduct his researches with knowledge of the discoveries already made, and make them his starting-point. But anyone who, casting aside and rejecting all these means, attempts to conduct research in any other way or after another fashion, and asserts that he has found out anything, is and has been victim of deception.

  Hippocrates

  Mean, Science, Medicine

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• My favorite thing about acting is being alone and going through the scripts and working on it and getting ideas and asking myself questions, looking outside myself for them and researching and getting to the bottom of something and being creative with it as an actor and how to express it in a creative fashion. That's my favorite part. And, the actual acting of it.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Ideas, Creative, Acting

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

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• I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent. Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all; they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Love, Simple, Squares

  Michel de Montaigne (1893). “The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne”

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• With all the new media outlets out there, with all the noise, a voice of authority and calm like Vogue becomes more important than ever. The more eyes on fashion, the more opinions about fashion, the more exploration of fashion around the world, the better it is for Vogue. Vogue is like Nike or Coca-Cola—this huge global brand. I want to enhance it, I want to protect it, and I want it to be part of the conversation.

  Anna Wintour

  Nike, Eye, Media

  "Anna Wintour Looks Up To Michelle Obama, Has No Political Ambitions" by Sarah St. Lifer, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2011.

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• Fashion is a great thing, it's a way to express who you are.

  Zendaya

  Way, Great Things, Who You Are

  "Zendaya Talks Fashion, Growing Up And Her Friendship With Bella Thorne On HuffPost Live". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2013.

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• I did decide that you have to put your name about a bit, and so, although I would have preferred to have never done publicity or an interview or a fashion shoot for a magazine or a chat show.

  Jeremy Northam

  Names, Done, Magazines

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• Do you prefer ‘fashion victim’ or ‘ensembly challenged’?

  Alicia Silverstone

  Clueless, Victim

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• Any style that Nike makes in all black, shoe, sweatshirt, onesie, doesn't matter, I pretty much need to have.

  Alexander Wang

  Nike, Shoes, Black

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• Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays.

  Coco Chanel

  Men, Clothes, Saint

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• When I wrote my blog and went to fashion week, I got a lot of shade from older editors about paying my dues and educating myself. I get where they were coming from, but it's also weird now to see their institutions scramble to use the internet in a way that's not savvy, but genuinely effective and exciting to people. I've been doing that for years.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Years, Editors, People

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• I love fashion because it's plugged into the zeitgeist, so it's always changing. Thirty years ago, I could never have predicted I'd be where I am today, so I know I don't know what's going to happen in the next five years or the next 20 years. I have my predictions—I'm sure technology will continue to have an impact on fashion, particularly the way people shop. I think quality will be increasingly important—we're moving away from a time of fast fashion. But really, the only constant in fashion is that you must keep moving forward, otherwise you'll be left behind.

  Michael Kors

  Moving, Technology, Thinking

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• A friend of mine says his two favorite artists are Picasso and Rembrandt. Picasso because he paints the beautiful in such an ugly fashion. And Rembrandt because he paints the ugly so beautifully.

  Anna Torv

  Beautiful, Artist, Two

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• Evil is... a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world

  Marquis de Sade

  People, Evil, World

  marquis de Sade (1988). “Juliette”, Grove Press

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• I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, 'Try one. Try a skirt.'

  Katharine Hepburn

  Men, Long Ago, Trying

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• It's my job to look presentable but that doesn't mean I have to make a fashion statement everytime I walk out the house.

  Katrina Kaif

  Jobs, Mean, House

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• You can find inspiration in everything. If you can't, then you're not looking properly.

  Paul Smith

  Inspiration, Ifs

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• Everything I know, see or hear, every part of my life is transformed into dresses. They are my daydreams, but they have passed from dreamland into the world of everyday items to wear.

  Christian Dior

  Everyday, Dresses, World

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