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• My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex.
Vivienne Westwood

• Fashion is very important. It is life enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.
Vivienne Westwood

• Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.
Loretta Young

• About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
Manolo Blahnik

• Style is primarily a matter of instinct.
Bill Blass

• I can go all over the world with just three outfits: a blue blazer and gray flannel pants, a gray flannel suit, and black tie.
Pierre Cardin

• The jean! The jean is the destructor! It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity. The jean must be stopped!
Pierre Cardin

• We undress men and women, we don’t dress them any more.
Pierre Cardin

• Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
Coco Chanel

• Elegance is refusal.
Coco Chanel

• I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.
Coco Chanel

• Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.
Coco Chanel

• Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.
Coco Chanel

• Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
Coco Chanel

• Dressing up. People just don’t do it anymore. We have to change that.
John Galliano

• There’s room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art.
John Galliano

• Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!
Donna Karan

• Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.
Donna Karan

• I think there’s something incredibly sexy about a woman wearing her boyfriend’s T-shirt and underwear.
Calvin Klein

• The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.
Calvin Klein

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