Fashion Quotes - Page 8

• How do you stand out as a fashion ad campaign? By using people off the street it does generate buzz.

  Alber Elbaz

  Using People, Doe, Campaigns

  "When fashion and reality collide". Interview with Emanuella Grinberg, www.cnn.com. July 30, 2012.

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• One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Clothes You Wear, Black, Style

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• Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Clothes, Appearance

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.

  Cecil Beaton

  Style, Needs, Littles

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

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• Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

  Dorothy Parker

  Women, Advice, Soul

  Quoted in AlexanderWoollcott, While Rome Burns (1934) See Shakespeare 174

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• I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

  Diana Vreeland

  Vanity, Narcissism, Style Icons

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• People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.

  Ralph Lauren

  Dream, Money, Kids

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• Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves, of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys, they'd just walk around naked at all times.

  Betsey Johnson

  Funny, Girl, Boys

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• If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?

  Linda Ellerbee

  Inspirational, Funny, Birthday

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

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• Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman's jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Play, Shoes, White

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• As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.

  Tom Ford

  Artist, Creating, Designer

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• And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.

  Lady Gaga

  Art, Creativity, Trying

  "Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame: College Course". AFP, www.independent.co.uk. November 17, 2010.

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• A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste-it's hearty, it's healthy, it's physical. I think we could use more of it. No taste is what I'm against.

  Diana Vreeland

  Inspirational, Nice, Thinking

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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• That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.

  Gianni Versace

  Being Yourself, Blue Dress, Keys

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

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• A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrical event. I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.

  Freddie Mercury

  Fun, Clothes, Concerts

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

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• I got to the point where I was sick of fashion again, like I was at the end of high school.

  Stephen Sprouse

  School, Sick, Ends

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• People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes.

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Artist, Clothes, People

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• Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.

  Paul de Man

  Fire, Flames, Ashes

  Paul de Man (2013). “Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism”, p.147, Routledge

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• Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh.

  Geoffrey Beene

  Flesh, Too Much, States

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• Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Understanding, Mind, Dresses

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.127, Oxford University Press

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• People think I'm trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It's really that I'm a tomboy at heart.

  Cameron Diaz

  Heart, Thinking, People

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• Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends.

  Janice Dickinson

  Business, Sound Doctrine, Trends

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• My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.

  Gianni Versace

  Dream, Composer

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

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• There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

  Virginia Woolf

  Heart, Views, Clothes

  Virginia Woolf (1995). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.92, Wordsworth Editions

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• I think that because I'm overweight, [my] fantasy was lightness. So I project my fantasy to the clothes, and now all I do is light, light clothes because it's the one thing I don't have. That is why I'm too afraid to lose weight because then I might make heavy clothes.

  Alber Elbaz

  Thinking, Clothes, Light

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