Fashion Quotes - Page 20

For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned

Fashion is about dreaming and making other people dream.

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

It requires strength of character in order to think and to act in opposite fashion from the crowd and also patience to wait for opportunities that may be spaced years apart.

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

Fashions pass quickly, and nothing is more pathetic than those puppets of fashion outrageously made up one day, pale the next, pleated or ironed stiff, libertine or ascetic. Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don't burn your wings.

If you have to ask if a clothing item is a dress or a top, it is always a top.

Fashion has a long interest in collaborative situations.

I believe in the holy Koran. It says we declare ourselves to be righteous Muslims and do not take part in wars, or in no way fashion or form take the lives of humans unless it's a holy war declared by God himself.

Clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them.

Today’s milestone is human madness. Politics is a part of it, particularly in its lethal outbursts. Politics is not, as it was for Hannah Arendt, the field where human freedom is unfurled. The modern world, the world of world war, the Third World, the underground world of death that acts upon us, do not have the civilized splendor of the Greek city state. The modern political domain is massively, in totalitarian fashion, social, leveling, exhausting. Hence madness is a space of antisocial, apolitical, and paradoxically free individuation

Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

Sexy for me is a curvy woman - doesn't have to be skinny, which I hate anyway. I'm glad [the fashion industry] is changing slowly a little bit now to get more into the boobs and hips again.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

I have my own style and don't really follow fashion, but I like leggings. They're easy to wear and can go with anything.

I don't approach fashion; fashion approaches me!

I want women to really look like women from today. It's not from the past and not from the future, because I don't know what happens in the future. It is the woman of today (who) I think is a seductive woman.

My obsession is to make women beautiful. When you create with that in mind, things can't go out of fashion.

I must to the barber's, monsieur, for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face.

Ask not of me, love, what is love? Ask what is good of God above; Ask of the great sun what is light; Ask what is darkness of the night; Ask sin of what may be forgiven; Ask what is happiness of heaven; Ask what is folly of the crowd; Ask what is fashion of the shroud; Ask what is sweetness of thy kiss; Ask of thyself what beauty is.

You put high heels on and you change.

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

The schools must fashion the person, and fashion him in such a way that he simply cannot will otherwise than what you wish him to will.

Of course there is a lot of fluidity now between art, architecture and fashion - a lot more cross-pollination in the disciplines, but this isn't about competition, it's about collaboration and what these practices and processes can contribute to one another.

It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves - motifs of rebellion.