Fashion And Art Quotes

• Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

  Francis Bacon

  Fashion, Art, Realizing

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• Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Life Changing, Sky

  "Chanel : A Woman of Her Own" by Axel Madsen, (p. 124), 1991.

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• The difference between fashion and art is that fashion is art in movement.

  Carolina Herrera

  Fashion, Art, Differences

  "The Evolution of Elegance". Interview with Renee Zellweger, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 15, 2016.

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• Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Form, Should

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• I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

  Ralph Lauren

  Dream, Fashion, Designer Clothes

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 19 Apr. 1986

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• What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language.

  Miuccia Prada

  Fashion, Life Changing, Style

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Dresses, Haute Couture

  "Chanel : A Woman of Her Own" by Axel Madsen, (p. 124), 1991.

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• Art is not fashionable. That's why fashion and art are two different things. Fashion can never be art because fashion deals with whim, what is temporary, what changes, what is transient, what is now and not now. Art has to deal with issues that are timeless, that never change.

  Duane Michals

  Fashion, Art, Two

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• Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.

  Jean Cocteau

  Beautiful, Fashion, Art

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

  Quentin Crisp

  Sad, Fashion, Being Yourself

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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

  Fashion, Morning, Style

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• Fashion is in the sky, in the street.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Sky, Dresses

  "Chanel : A Woman of Her Own" by Axel Madsen, (p. 124), 1991.

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• I think the relationship is very tenuous between fashion and art. Many designers have built relationships with artists, which is not something I personally did. But it's true, sometimes you see artists working for a designer or a brand on some specific project or taking care of their environment and making an amazing store.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Fashion, Art, Thinking

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• Fashion is not art. The aims of fashion and art are different and there is no need to compare them.

  Rei Kawakubo

  Fashion, Art, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A good model can advance fashion by ten years.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fashion, Years, Models

  Yves Saint Laurent (1983). “Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume”, p.22, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fashion, Teenage, Laughing

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Economy'.

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• Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Fashion

  Oscar Wilde “The Picture of Dorian Gray - and more”, Eighty Pence Books

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• The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?'

  Kanye West

  Fashion, Art, Creativity

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• I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Men, Clothes

  William Shakespeare (1803). “The plays of William Shakespeare”, p.361

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• You can do terrible things when you don't know who you are.

  Adam Rex

  Sad, Fashion, Being Yourself

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• So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Fashion, Style, Universal

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• I'm sort of like Jean-Paul Goude, the graphic designer who used to style Grace Jones and shoot all her visuals, just meaning that I use all mediums in one - music, fashion, and art. I'm hitting it from all angles.

  ASAP Ferg

  Fashion, Art, Grace

  Source: www.gq.com

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• You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms.

  Marissa Mayer

  Mom, Fashion, Art

  "Google's Marissa Mayer: Passion is a gender-neutralizing force" by Felicia Taylor, www.cnn.com. April 5, 2012.

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