Madeleine Vionnet famous quotes

The dress must not hang on the body but follow its lines. When a woman smiles the dress must smile with her.
-- Madeleine Vionnet

#Fashion #Dresses #Body

Insofar as one can talk of a Vionnet school, it comes mostly from my having been an enemy of fashion. There is something superficial and volatile about the seasonal and elusive whims of fashion which offends my sense of beauty.
-- Madeleine Vionnet

#Fashion #School #Enemy

I only like decoration if it plays second to the architecture of a dress,
-- Madeleine Vionnet

#Play #Dresses #Architecture

The couturier should be a geometrician, for the human body makes geometrical figures to which the materials should correspond.
-- Madeleine Vionnet

#Body #Figures #Should

Taste is the feeling that permits one to tell the difference between what is beautiful and what is merely spectacular.
-- Madeleine Vionnet

#Beautiful #Differences #Feelings

If a woman smiles, her dress must also smile.
-- Madeleine Vionnet

#Dresses

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?

Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.

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.

I've worn a dress at my wedding. I've worn 6-inch Louboutins. I've got no fear and no shame.

Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.

I dress like a tomboy.

The challenge to be the best is what drives me and to just improve my body every day.

Wisdom is to the soul as food is to the body.

The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.

Melody has a certain way that it projects back to you. It triggers certain nerves in your body and certain instincts that normally wouldn't be triggered by a normal voice.