Fashion Quotes:

Those who can bring themselves to renounce wealth, position and power accruing from a social system based on violence and putting a premium on acquisitiveness, and to identify themselves in some real fashion with the struggle of the masses toward the light, may help in a measure - more, doubtless, by life than by words - to devise a more excellent way, a technique of social progress less crude, brutal, costly and slow than mankind has yet evolved.

- A. J. Muste

source: "American Power and the New Mandarins". Book by Noam Chomsky, 1969.

topic: Fashion, Real, Struggle, Social Progress

Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony.

- Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

source: "Tools Of Speech" by Maturin M. Ballou, (p. 115), 1886.

topic: Fashion, Ideas, Gentleman, Attire

By and large, the making of serious, thoughtful and occasionally valuable art has become a lonely persuasion, while the marketing of art has become a boutique operation, manipulated by fashion, self-serving art scholars and the vagaries of the auction block.

- Abe Ajay

topic: Lonely, Fashion, Art, Self Serving

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?

- Abe Ajay

topic: Fashion, Art, Blow, Fashion Industry, Whitney

The only lifestyle I'm promoting is the lifestyle of love and friendship. The lifestyle of music, and joy, and fashion. So whoever wants to come and get part of that lifestyle, we accept anybody.

- Adam Lambert

topic: Fashion, Joy, Love And Friendship

The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Fashion, War, Struggle, Unrelenting, Harshness

Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong.

- Adriana Lima

topic: Fashion, Strong, Attitude, Inspiring Fashion, Good Attitude

Fashion is about good energy. It's about feelings. That's what I have to give the people, good energy and good feelings.

- Adriana Lima

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Fashion, People, Giving, Good Energy

My favorite designer is Christian Lacroix, not just because his clothes are amazing and I love them, but because he's so nice. When I did his fashion show, he was the first one to arrive there and he helped everyone

- Adriana Lima

topic: Christian, Fashion, Nice, Fashion Show

I didn't know anything about fashion. I couldn't believe it when I got here. I don't know how I'm sitting here right now speaking English.

- Adriana Lima

topic: Fashion, Believe, Sitting

I was in a fashion show and I had on a strapless top. When I got to the end the top was down

- Adriana Lima

topic: Fashion, Ends, Shows, Fashion Show

For the last six or seven years the circus has no longer been in fashion. That is a pity. One should go to the circus, beyond any question of fashion, at least one or two times a year-I am not speaking here to the real enthusiasts, they know better than I what they have to do.

- Adrienne Monnier

source: Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.237, U of Nebraska Press

topic: Fashion, Real, Years

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

- Adrienne Monnier

source: Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.216, U of Nebraska Press

topic: Fashion, Art, Furniture, High Fashion, Construction Sites

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.

- Aerin Lauder

topic: Dream, Fashion, Home

So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft: With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.

- Aeschylus

topic: Fashion, Eagles, Hands, Smitten

It is claimed that the United States gets the cleanest and purest tea in the market, and certainly it is too good to warrant the nervous apprehension which strains and dilutes it into nothingness. The English do not strain their tea in the fervid fashion we do. They like to see a few leaves dawdling about the cup. They like to know what they are drinking.

- Agnes Repplier

topic: Fashion, Drinking, Tea, Warrants

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

- Agyness Deyn

topic: Fashion, Stuff, Materialistic

I don't really go to fashion parties; they're not my scene.

- Agyness Deyn

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

topic: Fashion, Party, Scene

To take part in the African revolution, it is not enough to write a revolutionary song. You must fashion the revolution with the people. And if you fashion it with the people, the songs will come by themselves.

- Ahmed Sekou Toure

topic: Fashion, Song, Writing

For as from the same piece of clay a potter may fashion either a pot or a tile, so the Devil may shape a witch into a wolf or a cat or even a goat, without subtracting from her and without adding to her at all. For this occurs just as clay is first molded into one, then shaped into another form, for the Devil is a potter and his witches are but clay.

- Aino Kallas

topic: Fashion, Cat, Devil

Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.

- Al Gore

topic: Fashion, War, Sea, Renewable Resources, Civilisation

Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things yes, I'm introducing some new music that people haven't really heard me do in quite this fashion.

- Al Jarreau

topic: Fashion, People, Records

There's a lot of different ways that a song would be a challenge to parody. There are a lot of songs that would ostensibly be a good candidate for parody, yet I can't think of a clever enough idea. Some songs are too repetitive for me to be able to fashion a humorous set of lyrics around. Some songs flat-out just don't work creatively for me.

- Al Yankovic

source: Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

topic: Fashion, Song, Clever

The country is laid out in a haphazard, sloppy fashion, offensive to the tidy, organized mind.

- Alan Brien

topic: Country, Fashion, Mind, Country Life, Organized Mind

I need to be performing. I need to be acting. I need to be designing a condo and ripping down walls and buying new plates and looking at fashion magazines. There always has to be some movement in the artistic department for me to not get really, really low.

- Alanis Morissette

topic: Fashion, Wall, Design, Fashion Magazines

It was not the story of design or clothes, it was the fantasy of women that made me want to work in fashion,

- Alber Elbaz

topic: Fashion, Clothes, Design

I like first class, but I don't like first class people - I prefer the people in coach. I like fine restaurants, but prefer the taste of McDonalds. I like to be perfect, but I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection. I know, I am a walking contradiction.

- Alber Elbaz

topic: Fashion, Thinking, Mcdonalds

Fashion is like a fruit, you couldn't eat it a day before and you can't eat it a day after; it's just about today

- Alber Elbaz

topic: Fashion, Today, Fruit

I was thinking recently, If the body really is the new dress, as some are saying - with women buying boobs, butts, faces - then who needs a dressmaker? So I started designing spring like a plastic surgeon - everything stretchy and nude. But after three weeks, I was so bored with myself and the world, I began adding diamond butterflies and chiffon and colors. I realized that fashion is not about second skin. It's not the perfect white shirt or camel jacket. What women need is a dream.

- Alber Elbaz

topic: Dream, Fashion, Spring, White Shirts, Plastic Surgeons

Fashion is not about buying a second skin. Fashion is about having a fantasy.

- Alber Elbaz

topic: Fashion, Skins, Buying

Fashion is about having a fantasy.

- Alber Elbaz

topic: Fashion, Fantasy

Pure, intense emotions. It's not about design. It's about feelings.

- Alber Elbaz

topic: Fashion, Design, Feelings, Inspiring Fashion, Intense Emotions

I've always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don't have to think about it to know it's delicious.

- Alber Elbaz

source: Laura Esquivel (1994). “Like water for chocolate: a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies”, Anchor

topic: Fashion, Thinking, Chickens, High Fashion, Roast Chicken

In fashion we're lucky, we make dreams come true.

- Alber Elbaz

topic: Dream, Fashion, Lucky

To be a fashion critic is easy because you just say, 'I love it, I hate it,' but life is more than love and hate.

- Alber Elbaz

topic: Fashion, Hate, Life Is, Love And Hate

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

- Alber Elbaz

topic: Fashion, Using People, Doe

Fashion doesn't look good only on models; it can look good on different people of different ages and different body shapes.

- Alber Elbaz

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

topic: Fashion, People, Age, Different Ages, Body Shapes

Fashion is not always about what's new, it's also about what's good. And I think if you need to see what's good, you have to be there.

- Alber Elbaz

topic: Fashion, Thinking, Needs

Fashion is like life. It needs fear and uncertainty if you are to move forward.

- Alber Elbaz

topic: Fashion, Moving, Needs

I think that the lack of intuition in fashion today is one of the most dangerous things. My fear is that our business is turning into a bag business, and it's all about the bag. But it's not only about the bag. It's about the women. And it's not about a bag or a shoe or the jewelry. It's only about women. . . . Being almost politically correct and doing only what you expect without the ability to make mistakes is very dangerous to fashion. We have to go with our heart. We have to go with our intuition.

- Alber Elbaz

topic: Fashion, Mistake, Heart, Fashion Today

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

topic: Fashion, Thinking, Light

The designers, photographers and models I work with, they are really hard-working people who are devoting their lives to fashion. They're kind of like nuns of fashion.

- Alber Elbaz

topic: Fashion, Hard Work, People

Fashion is instinctive and sensual. Learn to love what you wear. It should feel like eating chocolates...wi thout the calories

- Alber Elbaz

topic: Fashion, Chocolate, Sensual, Eating Chocolate

Everybody's talking about the new democratic world and whether high fashion is relevant. But without high there is no low. I don't like to intellectualize. I've always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don't have to think about it to know it's delicious.

- Alber Elbaz

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

topic: Fashion, Thinking, Talking, High Fashion, Roast Chicken

Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots

- Albert Einstein

topic: Fashion, Civilization, Boots

Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Spiritual, Fashion, Independent Thought

If they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Fashion, Clothes, Want, Yiddish

The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live. It is about the realities of what makes for an attractive, civilized, meaningful environment, not about fashion or what's in or what's out. This is not an easy job.

- Albert Hadley

topic: Meaningful, Fashion, Jobs, Interior Space, Interior Design

My school is the world, and my teacher is the people. It is very important not to stay cloistered in the office if you want to create. We have to go out in society to understand how people live and dress in their real lives.

- Alberta Ferretti

topic: Fashion, Teacher, Real

Up to now we have faced external problems in an isolated fashion. One of these problems is precisely the drug trade and what has been the result? A very weak and fragile position.

- Alberto Fujimori

topic: Fashion, Drug, Problem

All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.

- Alberto Giacometti

topic: Fashion, Art, Past, Recess, Particles

At different times and in different places I have come to expect certain books to look a certain way, and, as in all fashions, these changing features fix a precise quality onto a book's definition. I judge a book by its cover; I judge a book by its shape.

- Alberto Manguel

topic: Fashion, Book, Judging, Judging A Book By Its Cover, Different Times

Quality is remembered long after price is forgotten.

- Aldo Gucci

topic: Fashion, Long, Quality

Ive been a fashion model for 15 years and designing is just an extension of my career. I still plan on modeling lingerie, but at the same time this is a business transition that I plan to have around for a long time.

- Alessandra Ambrosio

topic: Fashion, Years, Careers, Fashion Model, Extensions

As eight years before, he was leaving ... to rewrite his destiny in orderly fashion.

- Alessandro Baricco

source: Alessandro Baricco (1998). “Silk”, Vintage

topic: Fashion, Destiny, Eight

I've never felt that I've had some great fashion sense of my own - I tend to wear what my wife tells me to wear.

- Alessandro Nivola

source: "Coco’s Boy Toy: Q&A With Alessandro Nivola". Interview with Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, wwd.com. September 18, 2009.

topic: Fashion, Wife, My Wife

I am a princess. I do not follow fashions--I make them.

- Alex Flinn

source: Alex Flinn (2009). “A Kiss in Time”, p.12, Harper Collins

topic: Fashion, Princess

People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.

- Alex Kapranos

topic: Fashion, People, Musical, Musical Taste

Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.

- Alex Kapranos

topic: Fashion, Media, Musical, Glasgow, Detached

In a very real sense, the Constitution is our compact with history . . . [but] the Constitution can maintain that compact and serve as the lodestar of our political system only if its terms are binding on us. To the extent we depart from the document's language and rely instead on generalities that we see written between the lines, we rob the Constitution of its binding force and give free reign to the fashions and passions of the day.

- Alex Kozinski

source: "It Is a Constitution We Are Expounding: A Debate" by A. Kozinski & J.D. Williams, Utah L. Rev. 978, at 980, 1989.

topic: Fashion, Real, Passion, Between The Lines

Clothes are about manipulations: how I feel, how I want to feel and how I want others to feel about me.

- Alexa Chung

topic: Fashion, Clothes, Want

I was at school when Britney Spears' 'Baby One More Time' came out. I changed my uniform to look like hers. I just looked slutty after that, so thank you, Britney.

- Alexa Chung

topic: Fashion, Baby, School

At school, a careers adviser asked me what I wanted to be, and I said 'fashion journalist,' so writing for 'Vogue' has provided me with the opportunity to fulfill a dream.

- Alexa Chung

topic: Dream, Fashion, Writing

I think it's every girl's dream, a little bit, to be a model because it seems from the outside to be a glamorous industry and I was really into fashion, and I remember just being excited and wanting to be part of that.

- Alexa Chung

topic: Girl, Dream, Fashion, Every Girl

When I was going to Paris for Paris Fashion Week, I'd often walk down the street and go into all the different shops that we didn't necessarily have in the U.K., and Maje was definitely one of the ones that stood out for me.

- Alexa Chung

topic: Fashion, Paris, Different, Paris Fashion, Fashion Week

London Fashion Week is so different from any of the others. Compared to the strictness in New York, London seems freer from commercial constraints. Truer to the process, to street style, to a sense of humour.

- Alexa Chung

topic: Fashion, New York, Style, Fashion Week

I worry all the time that I'm going to run out of ideas, you know? I always tell my mom my fashion ideas, because I know she'll remember them.

- Alexa Chung

topic: Mom, Running, Fashion

I think it's cool that London Fashion Week is about young designers trying wacky things.

- Alexa Chung

topic: Fashion, Thinking, Trying, Fashion Week

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

- Alexander McQueen

topic: Fashion, Form, Should, Inspiring Fashion, Style Icons

For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium.

- Alexander McQueen

topic: Fashion, Expression, Artistic, Artistic Expression

Fashion is self confident and fearless.

- Alexander McQueen

source: "Are the British really the worst-dressed tourists?" by Angela Balakrishnan, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2007.

topic: Fashion, Self, Fearless

Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers.

- Alexander McQueen

topic: Fashion, Clothes, Want, Jewellery

Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality.

- Alexander McQueen

topic: Fashion, Looks, Pieces, Fashionista, Great Fashion

For people who know McQueen, there is always an underlying message. It's usually only the intellectual ones who understand what's going on in what I do.

- Alexander McQueen

topic: Fashion, People, Intellectual, Mcqueen

British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.

- Alexander McQueen

topic: Fashion, Self, Ideas

I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.

- Alexander McQueen

topic: Birthday, Fashion, Book

I want people to be afraid of the women I dress.

- Alexander McQueen

source: "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty review - superficially magnificent" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2015.

topic: Fashion, People, Dresses

The explosion of museum exhibitions is only a mirror image of what has happened to fashion itself this millennium. With the force of technology, instant images and global participation, fashion has developed from being a passion for a few to a fascination - and an entertainment - for everybody.

- Alexander McQueen

topic: Fashion, Passion, Technology, Mirror Image

There has to be a balance between your mental satisfaction and the financial needs of your company. (But) I always remember that it's the fantasy, the artistic side, that makes customers want to buy the straightforward black pants.

- Alexander McQueen

topic: Fashion, Black, Balance

I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern, very now - no one wears head-to-toe designer anymore.

- Alexander McQueen

topic: Fashion, Thinking, Ideas

I was literally 3 years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life, through primary school, secondary school, all my life. I always, always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of twelve. I followed designer's careers. I knew Giorgio Armani was a window-dresser, Emanuel Ungaro was a tailor.

- Alexander McQueen

topic: Fashion, Book, School, Dressers, Armani

It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.

- Alexander McQueen

topic: Fashion, Style, Together, Individual Style, Inspiring Fashion

Anyone can get dressed up and glamorous, but it is how people dress in their days off that are the most intriguing.

- Alexander Wang

source: "25 of the Best Fashion Quotes of All Time" by Lauren Hutton, Krystin Arneson, Megan Gustashaw, Glamour, 2011.

topic: Fashion, People, Dresses, Dressed Up, Inspiring Fashion

There's a tendency to think that young designers only do fantasy fashion, but I'm more interested in making clothes that women can afford.

- Alexander Wang

topic: Fashion, Thinking, Clothes

Any style that Nike makes in all black, shoe, sweatshirt, onesie, doesn't matter, I pretty much need to have.

- Alexander Wang

topic: Nike, Fashion, Shoes, All Black, Sweatshirts

When I decided to launch my first knitwear line, it was because I saw a void in the basics category. The editors were always looking for cool, fashion-forward tees and sweaters. So that's where I started.

- Alexander Wang

topic: Fashion, Editors, Sweaters, Knitwear

I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper fashion business education.

- Alexander Wang

topic: Fashion, Brother, School, Fashion Business, Business Education

I don't think fashion week will go back to what it used to be because people are realising that the industry is completely changing. It's not just in Bryant Park any more, people are figuring out who their audience is, where they want to show, they aren't really playing by the rules. It's not so much about these editors, these buyers.

- Alexander Wang

topic: Fashion, Thinking, Editors, Fashion Week

"To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse, make it feel good, is the great skill."

- Alexandra David-Neel

topic: Fashion, Gratitude, Dog, Negative Experiences

The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.

- Alexandre Dumas

topic: Fashion, Law, Awkward, Awkwardness, Transient

What is good today may be a cliche tomorrow.

- Alexey Brodovitch

topic: Fashion, May, Today

People see fashion as superficial and shallow, but its actually not. As an industry, it can really change how things happen and change trade for countries that really need it.

- Ali Hewson

source: "Ali Hewson makes fashion in the name of love". Interview with Jeanne Beker, www.theglobeandmail.com. April 9, 2011.

topic: Country, Fashion, People

Business is tough, and the fashion industry is particularly tough.

- Ali Hewson

topic: Fashion, Tough, Fashion Industry

You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work.

- Ali MacGraw

topic: Girl, Fashion, Husband, Fashion Business

Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay.

- Ali Smith

topic: Fashion, Gay, Fickle

It is a terrifying as well as hopeful truth that we tend to bring into being in form whatever we fashion in thought.

- Alice Hegan Rice

topic: Fashion, Expectations, Hopeful

It is principally for the sake of the leg that a change in the dress of man is so much to be desired. The leg is the best part of the figure and the best leg is the man s. Man should no longer disguise the long lines, the strong forms, in those lengths of piping or tubing that are of all garments the most stupid.

- Alice Meynell

topic: Fashion, Strong, Stupid, Long Lines, Tubing

I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesnt date.

- Alice Temperley

topic: Fashion, Thinking, Elegance

no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labor so to bring into the world.

- Alice Walker

topic: Friendship, Fashion, Silence, Belittle

In order to be able to live at all in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.

- Alice Walker

topic: Fashion, Order, America

I really like to live my life in a low-key fashion.

- Alicia Keys

topic: Fashion, Keys, Living My Life, Low Key

the fashion pages of magazines such as Cosmopolitan now seem to specialize in telling the career girl what to wear to charm the particular wrong type of man who reads Playboy, while the editorial pages tell her how to cope with the resulting psychic damage.

- Alison Lurie

topic: Girl, Fashion, Men

The fashion industry is no more able to preserve a style that men and women have decided to abandon than to introduce one they do not choose to accept.

- Alison Lurie

topic: Fashion, Men, Style

Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world

- Alison Lurie

source: 1981 The Language of Clothes.

topic: Fashion, Inspiration, Privilege, Free World

Bowman turned his back on her and began to search the place methodically and exhaustively. When one searches any place, be it a gypsy caravan or a baronial mansion, methodically and exhaustively, one has to wreck it completely in the process.So, in a orderly and systematic fashion, Bowman set about reducing Czerda's caravan to a total ruin.

- Alistair Maclean

source: Alistair MacLean (1974). “Caravan to Vaccarès”

topic: Fashion, Wrecks, Systematic, Mansions, Caravans

I've spent some time working with a non-Italian designer; I've been helping him organize fashion shows, the advertising, also helping with the creative part. But the great part about this work is that I am no one!

- Allegra Versace

topic: Fashion, Italian, Creative

I'm so happy that I finished college. Going into this crazy vortex of scrutiny is tough. If I was younger than I was now and I was going to fashion shows, I might have this distorted sense of self. I might rely on those cameras. Because when I was 18, I was half-baked.

- Allison Williams

topic: Fashion, Crazy, College

Right now I'd say my favorite fashion designer is Zac Posen.

- Allyson Felix

topic: Fashion, Designer, My Favorite

I think some people still don't really know what ethical fashion is.

- Amanda Hearst

topic: Fashion, Thinking, People

Models are just mannequins seeking validation at the hands of sleazy fashion people.

- Amber Heard

topic: Fashion, Hands, Validation, Sleazy

I seem to be stuck in the '60s, and my favorite music, cars, and women's fashion come from that era. And the sense of social rebellion. It was a good time for a lot of things.

- Amber Heard

topic: Fashion, Car, Eras, Favorite Music

Idiot - A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Fashion, Powerful, Decision, Confined

I like Cinderella - she has a good work ethic and she likes shoes.

- Amy Adams

topic: Fashion, Shoes, Work Ethic, Good Work Ethic, Shoes And Fashion

A short way into Teen Vogue I realized that teens see it as a guide for their lives and their careers, more than a place to teach them how to get boys. And they don't ask us fashion advice questions; they're too sophisticated. They're inspired by what they see and they think, 'These people at this magazine represent what I want to be, beyond shoes and makeup.'

- Amy Astley

topic: Fashion, Boys, Makeup

We profess to be strangers and pilgrims, seeking after a country of our own, yet we settle down in the most un-stranger-like fashion, exactly as if we were quite at home and meant to stay as long as we could. I don't wonder apostolic miracles have died. Apostolic living certainly has.

- Amy Carmichael

topic: Country, Fashion, Home, Pilgrim, Apostolic

When I was little, my parents really only wanted me to be a scientist or a doctor; they had never even heard of law school. I think even these days if you were to tell your mother you want to be a fashion designer, or an artist or a writer, a lot of Asian parents would be alarmed because they don't think that's a secure career.

- Amy Chua

topic: Mother, Fashion, School, Law School

And you know, the baby boomers are getting older, and those off the rack clothes are just not fitting right any longer, and so, tailor-made suits are coming back into fashion.

- Amy Irving

topic: Fitness, Fashion, Baby, Baby Boomer, Boomers

The best-dressed women I know pay very little attention to the picayune aspects of fashion, but they have a sound understanding of style.

- Amy Vanderbilt

source: Amy Vanderbilt (1954). “Amy Vanderbilt's complete book of etiquette: a guide to gracious living”

topic: Fashion, Understanding, Style, Best Dressed

Fashion is always uncomfortable. When you get comfortable, you never get the look.

- An Na

topic: Fashion, Looks, Uncomfortable

I like anything with a live audience. I love sitcom work. I hope it comes back in fashion because I really love it. I love single-camera work, too, but in a different way than that live-audience thing, which is really exciting.

- Ana Gasteyer

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Fashion, Cameras, Different

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

- Anatole France

topic: Fashion, Thinking, Literature, Fools Day, April Fools

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.

- Anatole France

topic: Fashion, Women, Clothes

Blessed are thoseto whom Easter is not a hunt... but a find; not a greeting... but a proclamation; not an outward fashion... but inward grace; not a day... but an eternity.

- Anderson Luis de Abreu Oliveira

topic: Fashion, Easter, Blessed, Proclamation

I don't think it ever does any harm in any business to feel that there is someone there who cares about it. If you look at any business, fashion being the most obvious, the aura, or the reality of the designer, is part of what creates it. It's true in luxury goods stores and in good food stores. It leaves a palpable sense that someone cares.

- Andre Balazs

topic: Fashion, Reality, Thinking, Luxury Goods

I love people - it is not the fashion, it is the people in fashion I love.

- Andre Leon Talley

topic: Fashion, People

People love fashion exhibits because they can fantasize. They can respond to a dress even if they can never wear a dress like that.

- Andre Leon Talley

topic: Fashion, People, Dresses, Love Fashion

I have 4 bedrooms in my house. 1 is for guests, the other 3 are for closets.

- Andre Leon Talley

topic: Fashion, House, Guests

You cannot live your life in the elitist world of fashion and not step out or you're disconnected. You have to realize that fashion is not the endgame.

- Andre Leon Talley

topic: Fashion, Live Your Life, World, Endgame

Wearing clothes should be a personal narrative of emotion. I always respond to fashion in an emotional way.

- Andre Leon Talley

source: "A history of the little black dress" By Ann Hoevel, www.cnn.com. October 2, 2012.

topic: Fashion, Emotional, Clothes

Fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez was a major part of my early career.

- Andre Leon Talley

topic: Fashion, Careers, Antonio, Illustrators

It's incorrect to assume you can be a fashion editor because you blog, if you don't have experience to look at fashion in a professional way.

- Andre Leon Talley

topic: Fashion, Editors, Looks

Fashion is quite inclusive and good at embracing different things and different forms of beauty. It's a very liberal industry. You can be yourself. Just not overweight.

- Andrej Pejic

topic: Fashion, Being Yourself, Different

In an address before the "Academia," which had been organized to combat "science falsely so called," Cardinal Manning declared his abhorrence of the new view of Nature, and described it as "a brutal philosophy to wit, there is no God, and the ape is our Adam." ...These attacks from such eminent sources set the clerical fashion for several years.

- Andrew Dickson White

source: Andrew Dickson White (2012). “A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods”, p.71, Transaction Publishers

topic: Fashion, Philosophy, Views, Abhorrence

Androgynous fashion, long hair, the Pill, a new interest in the inner psychological life - an unabashed sloppiness, if you will - really marks the sixties. It was when Britain went girlie. And what do girls do? Girls shop.

- Andrew Marr

topic: Girl, Fashion, Hair, Androgynous, Sloppiness

Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass murder — just as animals are not deemed morally responsible for killing. Insisting on the humanity of terrorists is, in fact, critical to maintaining their profound responsibility for the evil they commit. And, if they are human, then they must necessarily not be treated in an inhuman fashion. You cannot lower the moral baseline of a terrorist to the subhuman without betraying a fundamental value.

- Andrew Sullivan

source: "The Abolition Of Torture". newrepublic.com. December 19, 2005.

topic: Fashion, Responsibility, Animal

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

- Andy Warhol

topic: Fashion, Reason, Pop Art

I want to die with my blue jeans on.

- Andy Warhol

topic: Fashion, Blue, Jeans, I Want To Die, Blue Jeans

I dress for women and I undress for men.

- Angie Dickinson

topic: Fashion, Men, Dresses

Every guitarist I would cross paths with would tell me that I should have a flashy guitar, whatever the latest fashion model was, and I used to say, 'Why? Mine works, doesn't it? It's a piece of wood and six strings, and it works.'

- Angus Young

topic: Fashion, Guitar, Pieces, Fashion Model, Guitar Strings

McDonald's Meets Moschino at Milan Fashion Week

- Anita Hamilton

topic: Fashion, Mcdonalds, Week, Fashion Week, Milan

I don't put any rules to my style; I think fashion is something that you should play with... even if you make a mistake, it's okay, it's only fashion.

- Anja Rubik

topic: Fashion, Mistake, Thinking

We're bombarded with liberal propaganda 24/7, from the early morning shows, Hollywood movies, documentaries and sitcoms, all major newspapers, fashion magazines, the sports pages, public schools, college professors and administrators, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Unless liberals specifically seek out Ann Coulter books and columns, which I highly recommend, or tune into Fox News or conservative talk radio, they have no idea what conservatives are thinking.

- Ann Coulter

topic: Sports, Fashion, Morning, Etcetera, Bombarded

Black is not sad. Bright colours are what depress me. They're so... empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet? In a bright yellow jacket? Probably not.

- Ann Demeulemeester

topic: Fashion, Depressing, Yellow, Black Clothes, Fashion Designer

I want to put a soul in a garment. I don't want my clothes to be perfect, because human beings are not perfect.

- Ann Demeulemeester

topic: Fashion, Clothes, Perfect

Fashion has a right to exist, because it permits the people to define themselves over and over again.

- Ann Demeulemeester

topic: Fashion, People, Permit

Fashion has a reason to be, because in fashion you can find new kinds of expression about human beings. It's my way to communicate.

- Ann Demeulemeester

topic: Fashion, Expression, Way

Women who are devoted to causes, such as overpopulation and the underprivileged [sic], are much less interested in fashion than, let's say, those who lunch at La Grenouille and Le Cirque.

- Ann Landers

topic: Fashion, Lunch, Causes, Underprivileged, Grenouille

Because I had already resolved that if you're afraid of love, your heart will break anyway, only in not half so nice a fashion as it does when you let somebody love you.

- Ann Rinaldi

topic: Fashion, Nice, Love You, Afraid To Love

When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.

- Anna Deavere Smith

topic: Fashion, Jobs, Nice, Dark Skinned

Fashion is like music, and when you put music in a cage it doesn't work.

- Anna Dello Russo

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Fashion, Cages

Accessories are like vitamins to fashion

- Anna Dello Russo

topic: Fashion, Accessories, Vitamins

For me, clothes mean self-expression. You need to have an audience and connect with people. Fashion is shared. It connects people. And we share an experience beyond the clothes.

- Anna Dello Russo

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Fashion, Mean, Self

They are an essential tool to give new life to what you already have in your wardrobe. Accessories are like vitamins to fashion: you should use them liberally as such.

- Anna Dello Russo

topic: Fashion, Giving, Essentials

Fashion is a MUSE, you must seduce her.

- Anna Dello Russo

topic: Fashion, Muse, Seducing

I am excited by this collaboration: this is the first time H&M involves a Fashion Director in a special project. This is the sign of an important evolution in fashion, and I am both thrilled and humbled to be the one chosen to lead it. I wanted to create precious accessories that are impossible to find. As a stylist I know accessorization is essential: it is the personal touch to any outfit. With these pieces everybody can have fun, turning an ordinary day into a fantastic fashion day

- Anna Dello Russo

topic: Fashion, Fun, Special, Ordinary Days, Personal Touch

I don't want to be cool. I want to be fashion!

- Anna Dello Russo

source: "Anna Dello Russo interview: Fashion gone rogue" by Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2010.

topic: Fashion, Want, Being Cool

As a stylist, I know accessorization is essential: It is the personal touch to any outfit. With these pieces everybody can have fun, turning an ordinary day into a fantastic fashion day.

- Anna Dello Russo

topic: Fashion, Fun, Ordinary

Fashion is such stuff as dreams are made on…

- Anna Dello Russo

source: "Fashion Statement: Why Anna Dello Russo rocks" by Kate Carter, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2010.

topic: Dream, Fashion, Stuff

Fashion is everywhere. Everywhere! Flowers are fashion to me, the sky is fashion, my garden is fashion. My darling, the Sistine Chapel is fashion.

- Anna Dello Russo

topic: Fashion, Flower, Garden, Chapel, Sistine Chapel

When you don't feel to dress means that you are depressed. You need a fashion shower.

- Anna Dello Russo

topic: Fashion, Mean, Dresses, Fashion Show, Fashion And Style

There's no greater happiness than doing something every day that you love, that you feel you do in a satisfactory fashion, and which both supports and gives you time to support your family. I felt so lucky to have all that.

- Anna Quindlen

topic: Fashion, Giving, Support

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

- Anna Quindlen

topic: Fashion, Looks, Racist

Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

- Anna Quindlen

topic: Fashion, Lasts, Comes And Goes

high fashion has little to do with what women wear and a lot to do with what retailers mark down later.

- Anna Quindlen

topic: Fashion, Littles, Mark, High Fashion, Retailers

To me, fashion is like a mirror. It's a reflection of the times. And if it doesn't reflect the times, it's not fashion. Because people aren't gonna be wearing it.

- Anna Sui

source: "Fashion's Anna Sui: Stepping Forward". Interview with Rita Braver, www.cbsnews.com. March 08, 2009.

topic: Fashion, Reflection, Mirrors

I think that fashion has become such a big business and with globalization we are on new territory at this point. We are not just designing for a country we are designing for a world now.

- Anna Sui

source: "Anna Sui, Founder, Anna Sui Corp". Interview with Andrew Stevens, www.cnn.com. October 4, 2006.

topic: Country, Fashion, Thinking, New Territory

I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.

- Anna Sui

topic: Fashion, Designer, Wanted, Business Person

The red library is Sui's tribute to fashion maven Diana Vreeland, who served as editor for Harper's Bazaar (1939-1962) and Vogue (1963-1961). My most precious collection is my bound Vogue magazines, .. and they're kind of like my Bible. I look at them all the time when I'm trying to inspire myself for a collection.

- Anna Sui

topic: Bible, Fashion, Editors, Bazaars, Mavens

I love the fact that fashion always changes, and I hate the fact that it always changes.

- Anna Sui

topic: Fashion, Hate, Facts

Fashion should be fun and accessible.

- Anna Sui

topic: Fashion, Fun, Should

No one has ever found a solution for not doing a fashion show.

- Anna Sui

topic: Fashion, Found, Shows, Fashion Show

A friend of mine says his two favorite artists are Picasso and Rembrandt. Picasso because he paints the beautiful in such an ugly fashion. And Rembrandt because he paints the ugly so beautifully.

- Anna Torv

topic: Beautiful, Fashion, Artist

I'm interested in seeing just the girl on the street because she is unlike any other. I'm inspired by whatever it is she might be wearing.

- Anna Wintour

topic: Girl, Fashion, Might

If you look at any great fashion photograph out of context, it will tell you just as much about what's going on in the world as a headline in The New York Times.

- Anna Wintour

source: "What lies beneath". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2006.

topic: Fashion, New York, Looks, Great Fashion, Of Context

There is something about fashion that can make people really nervous.

- Anna Wintour

topic: Fashion, People, Nervous

You either know fashion or you don't.

- Anna Wintour

source: "Front Row: Anna Wintour: The Cool Life and Hot Times of Vogue's Editor in Chief". Book by Jerry Oppenheimer, February 2005.

topic: Fashion, Inspiring Fashion, Fashion And Style, Fashion Style

If you can't be better than your competition, just dress better.

- Anna Wintour

topic: Fashion, Competition, Dresses, Fashion Trends

Fashion goes in only one direction -forward- and I am a firm believer in thinking that way too.

- Anna Wintour

topic: Fashion, Thinking, One Direction

People constantly make the mistake of comparing London with New York, Milan and Paris and that's not what it's about. London has its own fashion identity. You come here to find the next Alexander McQueen or John Galliano.

- Anna Wintour

topic: Fashion, New York, Mistake, Milan

[The democratization of luxury] means more people are going to get better fashion. And the more people who can have fashion, the better.

- Anna Wintour

topic: Fashion, Mean, Luxury

Fashion's not about looking back. It's always about looking forward.

- Anna Wintour

source: "The September Issue". Documentary, 2009.

topic: Fashion, Looking Forward, Looking Back

Even if I'm completely unsure, I'll pretend I know exactly what I'm talking about and make a decision.

- Anna Wintour

source: "WWD CEO Summit: Anna Wintour in Conversation With Leslie Moonves" by Erik Maza, wwd.com. October 30, 2013.

topic: Fashion, Talking, Decision, Unsure

Fashion is not beautiful, neither is it ugly. Why should it be either? Fashion is fashion.

- Anna Wintour

topic: Beautiful, Fashion, Truth

Fashion is a reflection of our times. Fashion can tell you everything that's going on in the world with a strong fashion image.

- Anna Wintour

topic: Fashion, Strong, Reflection

I saw young women in the street dressing in a way that I thought was influencing the designers. Fashion was being influenced by all sorts of different people, and culture and also across the street. So I saw more as a trickle up, than a trickle down influence. When I came to Vogue, that's what I wanted it to reflect.

- Anna Wintour

topic: Fashion, People, Way, Trickle Down

The notion that Anna would want something done "now" and not "shortly" is accurate.

- Anna Wintour

topic: Fashion, Done, Want

They (fashion editors) have always been our secret weapon.

- Anna Wintour

topic: Fashion, Editors, Secret

Vogue' is the best of everything that fashion can offer, and I think we point the way. We are, you know, a glamorous girlfriend.

- Anna Wintour

topic: Fashion, Girlfriend, Thinking

With all the new media outlets out there, with all the noise, a voice of authority and calm like Vogue becomes more important than ever. The more eyes on fashion, the more opinions about fashion, the more exploration of fashion around the world, the better it is for Vogue. Vogue is like Nike or Coca-Cola—this huge global brand. I want to enhance it, I want to protect it, and I want it to be part of the conversation.

- Anna Wintour

topic: Nike, Fashion, Eye, Coca Cola, New Media

I'm an ice queen, I'm the Sun King, I'm an alien fleeing from District 9 and I'm a dominatrix. So I reckon that makes me a lukewarm royalty with a whip from outer space.

- Anna Wintour

topic: Fashion, Kings, Queens, Whips, District 9

I look for strong people. I don't like people who'll say yes to everything I might bring up. I want people who can argue and disagree and have a point of view that's reflected in the magazine. My dad believed in the cult of personality. He brought great writers and columnists to The Standard.

- Anna Wintour

topic: Fashion, Strong, Dad, Strong People, Cult Of Personality

It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself,

- Anne Carson

topic: Fashion, Asking, Realizing

I think fashion is a lot of fun. I love clothes. More than fashion or brand labels, I love design. I love the thought that people put into clothes. I love when clothes make cultural statements and I think personal style is really cool. I also freely recognize that fashion should be a hobby.

- Anne Hathaway

source: "Anne Hathaway Talks The Devil Wears Prada". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. June 28, 2006.

topic: Fashion, Fun, Thinking

Clothes aren't going to change the world, the women who wear them will

- Anne Klein

topic: Fashion, Clothes, World

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. Only if you do that can you hope to make the reader feel every particle of what you, the writer, have known and feel compelled to share."---Forward to Kafka's Short stories

- Anne Rice

source: Franz Kafka (1995). “The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories”, Random House LLC

topic: Fashion, Water, Soul

I like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion.

- Anni-Frid Lyngstad

topic: Fashion, Thinking, Slave

In this way, writers are indeed, as Henry Miller suggested, traitors to the human race. We may turn a light on inequity, injustice, and oppression from time to time, but we regularly kill what we love in insidious fashion.

- Anthony Bourdain

topic: Fashion, Light, Race, Injustice And Oppression

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

- Anthony Burgess

topic: Fashion, Men, Meat, Old Fashion, Fashion Statement

Where fashion in clothes, bodily adornment, and music are concerned, it is the underclass that increasingly sets the pace. Never before has there been so much downward cultural aspiration.

- Anthony Daniels

topic: Fashion, Clothes, Pace, Adornment

We are not merely tempered and schooled by failure but compelled, in however subtle a fashion, to become something other than we were.

- Anthony Lane

source: "French Election: Hollandaise" by Anthony Lane, www.newyorker.com. May 7, 2012.

topic: Fashion, Subtle