Fashion Quotes - Page 10

• I always have the idea in mind that when Botticelli was an old man nobody cared about him because he was out of fashion. Imagine, Botticelli was out of fashion!

  Norbert Bisky

  Men, Ideas, Mind

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• Fashion is, perhaps by necessity, in a world of its own - one that only rarely overlaps with anything resembling real life. This fantasy and exoticism is part of its appeal, of course.

  Vince Aletti

  Real, World, Fantasy

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• Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live under its foolish laws, the wise man is never the first to follow, nor the last to keep it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Wise, Men, Law

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• Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Heaven, Coats

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc”, p.38

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• In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.

  Christian Dior

  Age, Machines, Lasts

  "Rotunda" by Royal Ontario Museum, Volumes 34-36 (p. 12), 2001.

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• Always have a pink Oxford shint ready for days when you're feeling run down.

  Michael Bastian

  Running, Oxford, Feelings

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• Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Meditation, Silence, Together

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.161, Univ of California Press

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• I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.

  David Bailey

  Girl, Witty, Littles

  1990 In The Independent, 5 Nov.

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• It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Pain, Pathetic, Fashion Inspirational

  Yves Saint Laurent (1983). “Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume”, p.22, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• Women's fashion is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Women, Men, Euphemism

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

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• Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

  Coco Chanel

  Motivational, Mother, Strong Women

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• What a deformed thief this fashion is.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Thieves

  1598 Borachio to Conrad. Much Ado About Nothing, act 3, sc.3, l.126-9.

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• Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.

  Marie of Romania

  People, Taste, Romania

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• 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.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Mind, Desire, Charming

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• Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Clothes, Giving, Feelings

  "The agony and the ecstasy" by Jessica Berens, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2002.

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• Fashion is not necessarily about labels. It's not about brands. It's about something else that comes from within you.

  Ralph Lauren

  Labels, Designer, Style Icons

  Ralph Lauren's runway show, Fall 2008.

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• I think it was the right time for me to retire because nowadays tennis is too incredibly fast and you can say that my style tennis went out of fashion.

  Jana Novotna

  Thinking, Tennis, Style

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• I don't want a politician who's thinking about fashion for even one millisecond. It's the same as medical professionals. The idea of a person in a Comme des Garcons humpback dress giving me a colonoscopy is just not groovy.

  Simon Doonan

  Thinking, Ideas, Giving

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• Fashion is as profound and critical a part of the social life of man as sex, and is made up of the same ambivalent mixture of irresistible urges and inevitable taboos.

  Rene Konig

  Sex, Men, Social Taboos

  René König (1973). “A la Mode: On the Social Psychology of Fashion”

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• A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.

  Coco Chanel

  Naked, Well Dressed, Couture

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• Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.

  Elsa Schiaparelli

  Clothes, Style, Trying

  1954 A Shocking Life, ch.9.

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• The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates.

  David Mamet

  Class, Tragedy, Speech

  David Mamet (1986). “Writing in restaurants”, Viking Adult

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• The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Cute, Inspiring

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• Don't be afraid to take time to learn. It's good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.

  Vera Wang

  Inspirational, Life Changing, Artist

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• I know what women look good in. I don't think the rules ever change.

  Michael Kors

  Thinking, Looks, Knows

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