Fern Mallis quotes

  • I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.

  • As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.

  • It's Friday and I'm ready to swing. Pick up my girls and hit the party scene.

  • The art world is now a fashion industry, led by its Whitney Biennial 'nose for the new look.' But nobody, it seems, has the guts or the brains to blow the necessary whistle and holler, 'Hold on guys! What the hell is this ugly bit of business?

  • People always ask what I would have done if I weren't doing what I'm doing. And I say I'd [still] be in fashion or in beauty. It's such a dream come true now because I have the ability to go into home [goods] and accessories as well.

  • Fashion isn't me, even though I work in it. It's just materialistic stuff.

  • I love being a woman. I like dressing up; I love buying shoes.

  • I am a kid in the dressing-up box at heart.

  • I just love dressing up in everything a man is supposed not to be, in all that vulnerability, sweetness, preciousness and impracticality.

  • I really enjoy dressing up. I'm pretty much a girlie girl.