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• As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.
Tom Ford
• We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn’t we have a fashion designer as a senator?
Tom Ford
• I love to make fun of fashion because it is just so silly.
Kathy Griffin
• The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.
Matthew Hale
• History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion.
Eva Herzigova
• I admire people like Judd Nelson, who have an innate sense of fashion. Judd could wear a bathrobe and sanitarium sandals and a fedora and look good.
John Hughes
• 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
• I think of many people and no one as a muse. I love the way Sofia looks always, and I love the way Kim looks always. Fashion may be part of their world, but it’s not their whole life. It’s not everything.
Marc Jacobs
• In fact, just before the revolution of 1789, fashion was also inspired by history.
Christian Lacroix
• Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
John Locke
• Fashion is never in crisis because clothes are always necessary.
Achille Maramotti
• I have fun with my clothes onstage; it’s not a concert you’re seeing, it’s a fashion show.
Freddie Mercury
• I’m not that interested in fashion… When someone says that lime-green is the new black for this season, you just want to tell them to get a life.
Bruce Oldfield
• Fashion, as we knew it, is over; people wear now exactly what they feel like wearing.
Mary Quant
• Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is more knowledgeable, and I have to be better every single day.
Oscar de la Renta
• Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
George Santayana
• I don’t know if it’s a movement, but the only thing new that’s happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown into one big ball that’s on television, and people see that all the time – you see a fusion of all those things.
Stephen Sprouse
• Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
Henri B. Stendhal
• Clothes are my passion and my knowledge. I’ve studied fashion from every angle-historically and critically, cerebrally and emotionally.
Vera Wang
• It’s hard to go with a trend. As soon as it’s out, everyone picks it up. It’s important to stay true to yourself. Have fun with fashion instead of letting it dictate.
Estella Warren
• In difficult times fashion is always outrageous.
Elsa Schiaparelli
• The one thing about fashion is everyone wants that one moment when they look fabuloous and they feel fabulous, you know…when they step out of that limosine, when they make that entrance, when they slap that mans face…when everything is perfect. Its about going for that one moment and we are all relentlessly trying to get it.
Veronica Webb
• Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.
Jacques Barzun
• For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned.
George Santayana
• A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion.
Coco Chanel
• It’s time to do away with the bare flesh and low-rise jeans. Fashion will always be used to express our sexuality and liberation, but we’re moving the erogenous zone to our backs next. Bare backs are much better than bare midriffs.
David Wolfe
• I think fashion is that we go two steps forward and go 15 back each time because you always have to look back and see what’s being done. But I don’t want to look back to the ’70s. I’m really tired of that, and I’ve lived through that already.
Bob Mackie
• Wal-Mart isn’t about to become a fashion powerhouse. How can you sell fashion with nine aisles of dog food, detergent and chicken?
Howard Davidowitz
• Take a plain low-priced product like jeans and embellish it with design. Suddenly it becomes a ‘fashion’ jeans.
Howard Davidowitz
• I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.
Giorgio Armani
• It’s all about good taste.
Giorgio Armani
• I’ve always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet,… The White T.
Giorgio Armani
• Accessories are important and becoming more and more important every day.
Giorgio Armani
• Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani — even if it’s a fake. I like the fact that I’m so popular around the world.
Giorgio Armani
• The products that are moving out of the stores the fastest are those that are most expensive.
Giorgio Armani
• Androgynous today means that men and women have the same attitude towards what they want to wear, … It’s not unisex dressing, but more the idea that you can see a jacket on a woman in this show, which you can just as easily see on a man.
Giorgio Armani
• The creative universe begins with its essentiality, and, whatever path the imagination takes, ends with its purity… I love the T-shirt as an anti-status symbol, putting rich and poor on the same level in a sheath of white cotton that cancels the distinctions of caste.
Giorgio Armani
• I’ve always been about style for people, not ‘You’re going to wear this outfit,’… It was the way you put yourself together and the imagination, not buying this number off the rack, but the way you wear it.
Ralph Lauren
• Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.
Christian Dior
• In the beginning nobody believed in us,… I remember the first and second collection we’d call customers, stores and magazines and they’d say ‘Who? Dolce who?’
Stefano Gabbana
• Clothes are a good ad for living another life.
Stefano Gabbana
• It’s all a game, with new rules every season.
Stefano Gabbana
• Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.
Gianni Versace
• I knew exactly what I wanted to do: I wanted to build a brand of clothing around my own attitude and my own lifestyle.
Tommy Hilfiger
• Trying too hard to follow every trend? You want to look fashionable and put-together, not like you hit every sale rack this season.
Tommy Hilfiger
• Design is not for philosophy – it’s for life.
Issey Miyake
• I love clothes and fashion more than music.
Roberto Cavalli
• I want men to be more chic – and Japanese style has that kind of sophisticated elegance.
Roberto Cavalli
• We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
Yves Saint Laurent
• I like the sort of ‘nothingness’ of the jeans and the T-shirt. I feel that’s about as close as I can get to the future because it seems like something so old that will always be, so I feel it’s a safe bet for the future.
Marc Jacobs
• Happy, happy fashion – there is not much more to it than that.
Marc Jacobs
• I love that in the clothes, the body is what stands up, the person.
Calvin Klein
• Who can live without some black clothes.
Karl Lagerfeld
• Being a fashion designers, it’s almost like being a doctor. You can touch a person because they cough and you can tell whether they’re ill.
Isaac Mizrahi
• Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.
Diana Vreeland
• I do not mean to suggest for a moment that all it takes to be a top executive is a custom-tailored European suit. You also need the correct shirt and tie.
Dave Barry
• Ready-to-wear — that means ‘ready to wear’.
Christian Lacroix
• I think fashion is about suspense and surprise and fantasy. It’s not about rules.
Wolfgang Joop
• Every season I take the opportunity to convey a much larger message than just hemlines and trends.
Kenneth Cole
• The mirrors reflect a sense of displacement in today’s fashion, a lack of clear vision.
Miuccia Prada
• It’s all about wanting to go forward but still having to deal with nostalgia.
Miuccia Prada
• We don’t want to wear black every day, but we don’t want head-to-toe color every day either. Green can sort of do both and I think that’s what’s great about it.
Michael Kors
• Clothes don’t make the man, but clothes have got many a man a good job.
Herbert Harold Vreeland
• You never get a second chance to make a first impression.
Will Rogers
• Do the clothes suit you? Do the clothes suit the occasion? Do the clothes suit each other?
Richard Plourde
• The only moral one can draw from history is that it is much better to invent a new fashion than a new social theory. The first may improve the appearance of men; the latter will only bring about a revolution.
Carlo Maria Franzero
• Good clothes open all doors.
Thomas Fuller
• Clothes make the man.
Latin Proverb
• The well-dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice.
William Somerset Maugham
• No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.
Frank Zappa
• A man should look as if he had bought his clothes with intelligence, put them on with care, and then forgotten all about them.
Hardy Amies
• There’s no such thing as a designer of menswear—it’s only history. The suit around the world is based on the english suit, which began in about 1670.
Hardy Amies
• To appear well dressed, be skinny and tall.
Mason Cooley
• Independence, assurance, originality, self-control and refinement should all be visible in the cut of his clothes.
Ellen Moers
• ‘Tis hell to a man of spirit to be contradicted by his tailor.
Richard Garnett
• I’ve always been backward on morals, but I do know how to dress appropriately for any given occasion, and that’s more than half the battle.
Thorne Smith
• Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy: for the apparel oft proclaims the man.
Shakespeare
• One day when I was walking down Bond Street thinking how impeccably dressed I was in a well cut brown suit, a very distinguished-looking man shouted at me, ‘People like you ought to be shot!’
Cecil Beaton
• Though starving at school, I never took twice of pudding, and paid sixpence a week out of my shilling to have my shoes blacked.
Bulwer-Lytton
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