Dresses Quotes - Page 8

• Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Life Changing, Sky

  "Chanel : A Woman of Her Own" by Axel Madsen, (p. 124), 1991.

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• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  Vera Wang

  Design, Technique, Skating

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• I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

  Anthony Trollope

  Gentleman, Literature, Being The Best

  1879 Thackeray, ch.9.

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• The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

  Beauty, Lust, Doe

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• An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.

  William Manchester

  History, Preparation, Wonder

  William Manchester (2015). “The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932”, p.310, Pan Macmillan

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• Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Women, Handbags

  "Can you be too … well-dressed?" by Daisy Buchanan, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2013.

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• I dress for women and I undress for men.

  Angie Dickinson

  Fashion, Women, Men

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• The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.

  Jean Cocteau

  Funny, Hilarious, Sexy

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• For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Happy Birthday, Time, Stars

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.282, Penguin

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• I love color and I love to dress like a woman.

  Lisa Guerrero

  Color

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• Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.

  Wim Wenders

  Money, Example, Tuxedos

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• You dress elegant women. You dress sophisticated women. I dress sluts.

  Gianni Versace

  Women, Sophisticated, Elegant Woman

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• You know when you find a great dress, you've gotta hold on to it.

  Rachel McAdams

  Knows

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• I like to play dress up, I'm in love with fashion.

  Fantasia Barrino

  Fashion, Play

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• I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Fashion, Men, Well Dressed

  The Observer, www.theguardian.com. 1960.

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• The dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress.

  Hubert de Givenchy

  Fashion, Body, Shapes

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• Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is more becoming?

  Sylvia Plath

  Trying, Different, Becoming

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.101, Anchor

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• Always have fun with fashion. Dress to entertain yourself.

  Betsey Johnson

  Fashion, Fun, Having Fun

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• Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Funny, Fashion, Women

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.

  Francoise Sagan

  Funny, Friendship, Hilarious

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• Anyone can get dressed up and glamorous, but it is how people dress in their days off that are the most intriguing.

  Alexander Wang

  Fashion, Icons, Clothes

  "25 of the Best Fashion Quotes of All Time" by Lauren Hutton, Krystin Arneson, Megan Gustashaw, Glamour, 2011.

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  Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Beauty, Fashion

  Epictetus (1758). “All the Works of Epictetus: Which are Now Extant; Consisting of His Discourses, Preserved by Arrian, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.227

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• I started being a photographer because I liked fashion. I liked the idea of dressing up and changing my look. I got earrings, dyed my hair. I would dress like a fashion photo.

  Mario Testino

  Fashion, Hair, Dressing Up

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• ... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but when shedares to demand rights and privileges for herself, her motives, manners, dress, personal appearance, and character are subjects for ridicule and detraction.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Sex, Character, Men

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1898). “Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897”, p.241, UPNE

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• You know me. Any excuse to put on a dress.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Humor, Excuse

  "Ellen DeGeneres to Host Emmys in September" by Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. August 15, 2005.

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