Katharine Hamnett quotes
-
“The price of clothes may be low, but they are paid for with human lives,”
-- Katharine Hamnett -
“The fashion industry tends to attract people with serious personality defects. They just want to be rich and famous. But at some point you have to decide: Are you going to mindlessly go the easy way or are you going to go the ethical way?”
-- Katharine Hamnett -
“The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was saying: Look what I killed. Aren't I the best?”
-- Katharine Hamnett -
“Every experience permanently alters the way you perceive beauty”
-- Katharine Hamnett -
-
“You might think people would buy clothes out of pity, but they won’t. People buy clothes because they want to be excited about themselves. ...it has to be great clothing that just happens to be goody-goody, too.”
-- Katharine Hamnett -
“Emphasize the best, and minimize the rest”
-- Katharine Hamnett -
“I think the challenge is, in fashion everybody wants to get rich and famous and it's easy to get rich and famous by being a bad person. But the challenge is to achieve your goals-whatever they are-while staying a decent human being. That's where it came from.”
-- Katharine Hamnett
-
“They say for every high high there must be a low low low low low”
Source : Song: Sleep Alone, Album: Two Suns, 2009
You may also like:
-
Alexander McQueen
Fashion designer -
John Galliano
Fashion designer -
Vivienne Westwood
Fashion designer -
Derek Ridgers
Musical Artist