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Fashion Quotes

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To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state. It is necessary to understand history, and he who understands history knows how to find continuity between that which was, that which is, and that which will be.
Le Corbusier

Authors on Fashion Quotes: Coco Chanel Karl Lagerfeld Tom Ford Vivienne Westwood Alber Elbaz Giorgio Armani Carolina Herrera Marc Jacobs Donatella Versace Oscar de la Renta Alexander McQueen Yves Saint Laurent Anna Wintour Ralph Lauren Diana Vreeland Miuccia Prada Carine Roitfeld Tim Gunn William Shakespeare Diane von Furstenberg Sonia Rykiel Nicolas Ghesquiere Victoria Beckham Vera Wang Oscar Wilde Iris Apfel Hedi Slimane Joan Rivers Ralph Waldo Emerson Lady Gaga Donna Karan Henry David Thoreau Raf Simons
2.
No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, few pray-ers; many singers, few clingers; lots of pastors, few wrestlers; many fears, few tears; much fashion, little passion; many interferers, few intercessors; many writers, but few fighters. Failing here, we fail everywhere.
Leonard Ravenhill

3.
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.
Franz Kafka

'Refrain from conforming; resist diluting; don't attempt to rationalize; do not adulterate your spirit by heeding the latest trends. Instead, pursue your most fervent passions remorselessly.'
4.
No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that can be done is that one person who is more knowledgeable than another can, by asking a series of questions, stimulate the other to think, and so cause him to learn for himself.
Socrates

5.
Fashion you can buy, but style you possess. The key to style is learning who you are, which takes years. There’s no how-to road map to style. It’s about self-expression and, above all, attitude.
Iris Apfel

Attire you can buy, but class you possess. The key to class is discovering yourself, which takes time. There’s no roadmap to elegance. It’s about articulating oneself and, ultimately, mindset.
6.
We rarely think of the air we breathe, yet it is in us and around us all the time. In similar fashion, the presence of God penetrates us, is all around us, is always embracing us.
Thomas Keating

We rarely ponder the air that fills us, yet it is ever-present inside and outside. In like manner, God's existence pervades us, embraces us, and encircles us continually.
7.
I say, dress to please yourself. Listen to your inner muse and take a chance. Wear something that says 'Here I am!' today.
Iris Apfel

I encourage you to express yourself through your clothing. Listen to your instincts and take a risk. Dress in a way that embodies your true self today.
8.
When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.
Iris Apfel

'When you adorn a distinctive style, you don't have to conform to the same thought process.'
9.
Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
Zaha Hadid

Architecture is how the individual positions themselves in the area. Fashion is about how one drapes the item on the person.
10.
More is more and less is a bore.
Iris Apfel

'Magnitude is preferable to modesty.'
11.
Fashion is almost like a religion, for me at least.
ASAP Rocky

Style is a kind of spiritual devotion for me.
12.
Simplicity, good taste and grooming are the three fundamentals of good dressing and these do not cost money.
Christian Dior

13.
The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design.
Massimo Vignelli

14.
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
Pablo Picasso

Grasp the conventions with finesse, so you can innovate like a master.
15.
Real elegance is everywhere, especially in the things that don't show.
Christian Dior

'True grace is pervasive, particularly in those things that go unnoticed.'
16.
You can reach timelessness if you look for the essence of things and not the appearance. The appearance is transitory — the appearance is fashion, the appearance is trendiness — but the essence is timeless.
Massimo Vignelli

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Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.
Carolina Herrera

Grace isn't solely determined by what you attire. It's how you present yourself, the language you use, and what knowledge you acquire.
18.
I seen her in the subway, on my way to Brooklyn. "Hello, good lookin, is this seat tooken?" On the A Train, pickin at her brain, I couldn't get her number, I couldn't get her name. I said, "I still like your style and fashion, But I hate your hot sadiddy attitude wit a passion. Is it because brothers like to hawk a lot? Is it because your sign don't talk a lot?" She turned away, no play, I said, "OK, You don't really look good, I hope you have a bad day."
Rakim

19.
I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.
Marlene Dietrich

I attire myself for the perception. Not for my own benefit, not to impress others, not to follow trends, and not to appease men.
20.
Elegance is the only beauty that never fades.
Audrey Hepburn

Grace is the everlasting attractiveness.
21.
An Islamic writer recalls her joy in the clothes she wore as a young girl at a wedding: They were always in beautiful bright colors: crimson, pink, turquoise, purple, and embroidered with sparkling crystals, sequins and beads. ... The older girls and women would wear glamorous heavily-beaded silk blouses and long, princess-like skirts. I wanted to wear those fairy-tale clothes too. I longed even more to wear a sari which the women wore so elegantly and which flattered their curves.
Shelina Zahra Janmohamed

22.
Many of the customers here are traveling all over the world so they need multiple types of clothes. That's one thing about Urban Zen - it is seasonless and it is timeless. So it's not about the fashion of a moment saying, "I have to have it now." It's something that you become a part of...sort of like a sari.
Donna Karan

23.
Fashion is something that you can attach to yourself, put on, and through that interaction, the meaning of it is born.
Rei Kawakubo

Outfitting oneself with clothing creates an individualized identity.
24.
Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. [...] But above all black says this: 'I don't bother you - don't bother me'
Yohji Yamamoto

'Black is self-contained and haughty in equal measure. Black is indolent and simple - but enigmatic. [...] But mainly black conveys this: 'Leave me alone - I won't disrupt you.'
25.
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

26.
What will be the judgment a century hence concerning the lorded works of our favorite composers today? Inasmuch as nearly everything is subject to the changes of time, and - more's the pity- the fashions of time, only that which is good and true will endure like a rock and no wanton hand will ever venture to defile it. Then, let every man do that which is right, strive with all his might towards the goal which can never be obtained, develop to the last breath the gifts with which the gracious Creator has endowed him, and never cease to learn. For life is short, art eternal.
Ludwig van Beethoven

27.
The difference between style and fashion is quality.
Giorgio Armani

The distinction between elegance and trend is excellence.
28.
The plant never lapses into mere arid functionalism; it fashions and shapes according to logic and suitability, and with its primeval force compels everything to attain the highest artistic form.
Karl Blossfeldt

The vegetation never declines into barren utilitarianism; it creates and molds in accordance with rationality and appropriateness, and with its primordial strength coerces everything to reach the maximum aesthetic form.
29.
The life my people want is a life of freedom. I have seen nothing that a white man has, houses or railways or clothing or food, that is as good as the right to move in the open country and live in our fashion.
Sitting Bull

30.
As Indian citizens, we subsist on a regular diet of caste massacres and nuclear tests, mosque breakings and fashion shows, church burnings and expanding cell phone networks, bonded labor and the digital revolution, female infanticide and the NASDAQ crash, husbands who continue to burn their wives for dowry and our delectable stockpile of Miss Worlds. What's hard to reconcile oneself to, both personally and politically, is the schizophrenic nature of it.
Arundhati Roy

31.
Fashion you can buy, but style you possess.
Iris Apfel

'Clothing can be acquired, but grace is innate.'
32.
Shoes transform your body language and attitude. They lift you physically and emotionally.
Christian Louboutin

Footwear alters your posture and outlook. It elevates you both literally and psychologically.
33.
The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world.
Alicia Keys

34.
Fashion is like food! Some people like sushi, others think hamburgers are divine! People like different things!
Michael Kors

35.
I would hate for someone to look at my shoes and say, 'Oh my God! That looks so comfortable!'
Christian Louboutin

36.
Fashion may not be a weapon of the woman but at least it gives her the ammunition.
Brigitte Bardot

37.
The dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress.
Hubert de Givenchy

38.
Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
Yves Saint Laurent

39.
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
Dorothy Parker

40.
Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can assume great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired greatness, became “geniuses” (as we put it), through qualities the lack of which no one who knew what they were would boast of: they all possessed that seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little, secondary things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole.
Friedrich Nietzsche

41.
Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are.
Gianni Versace

42.
You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes. Too many women think that they are unimportant, but the real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet.
Christian Dior

43.
No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness.
Spencer W. Kimball

44.
A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.
Christian Dior

45.
Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
Oscar Wilde

46.
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
Coco Chanel

47.
Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and define in a basic 'taken for granted' fashion an organization's view of its self and its environment.
Edgar Schein

48.
Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.
Alexander McQueen

49.
There is no better designer than nature
Alexander McQueen

50.
Elegance and comfort are not incompatible, and whoever maintains the contrary simply doesn't know what he's talking about
Salvatore Ferragamo