Fashion Quotes - Page 38

I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.

[O]ne of the greatest difficulties encountered in bringing about favorable change is this almost inescapable illusion that there is a perduring, unique, simple existent self, [which is] in some strange fashion, the patient's, or the subject person's, private property.

I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn't like it. What had that to do with me? I told them the truth.

In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.

I just sing and write songs and wear what I want. It's quite a good job really. If I wanted to I suppose I could become more of a fashion icon, but singing is my thing.

You have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything.

I thought everyone must know that a short jacket is always worn with a silk hat at a private view in the morning.

Fashion is general. Style is individual.

Fashion comes and goes but style lasts forever

All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind.

For all the feminist jabber about women being victimized by fashion, it is men who most suffer from conventions of dress. Every day, a woman can choose from an army of personae, femme to butch, and can cut or curl her hair or adorn herself with a staggering variety of artistic aids. But despite the Sixties experiments in peacock dress, no man can rise in the corporate world today, outside the entertainment industry, with long hair or makeup or purple velvet suits.

Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon.

It is extremely important to me that the social and environmental issues associated with the production of fashion clothing are addressed.

I really hope that the fashion community will not accept anything that does not represent everyone.

I'm getting my respect as a video director. The fashion industry respects me and knows who I am.

Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself.

Fashion is a MUSE, you must seduce her.

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

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

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

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.

People often ask me if I consider myself to be an architect, fashion designer, or artist. I'm an architect. The paintings I've done are very important to me, but they were part of a process of thinking and developing.

Elegance is timeless. It withstands trend; It withstands the commercialization of what fashion and style have become.

I'm an old-fashioned person, and I don't like informers.

I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one's best physical features.