Fashion Quotes - Page 12

• I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.

  Wallis Simpson

  Travel, Pregnancy, United States

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• I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire it.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Sunglasses, Radiance, Jewelry

  Twitter post from May 01, 2013

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• Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.

  E. M. Forster

  Clothes, Deep Life, Transcendentalism

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.448, Delphi Classics

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• Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.

  Coco Chanel

  Beauty, Thinking, White

  "Chanel". Book by Jean Leymarie, 1987.

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• A beautiful dress may look beautiful on a hanger, but that means nothing. It must be seen on the shoulders, with the movement of the arms, the legs, and the waist.

  Coco Chanel

  Beautiful, Mean, Clothes

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

  Coco Chanel

  Work, Creativity, Clothes

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• The first rule that a geisha is taught, at the age of nine, is to be charming to other women...Every girl in the world should have geisha training.

  Diana Vreeland

  Girl, Should Have, Training

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• Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.

  Christian Dior

  Beauty, Zest, Design

  Ladies' Home Journal, April 1956.

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• You gotta have style. It helps you get down the stairs. It helps you get up in the morning. It's a way of life. Without it, you're nobody.

  Diana Vreeland

  Morning, Style, Way

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• Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of the future, and should never be static.

  Oleg Cassini

  Mirrors, Style, Mind

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• There's never a new fashion but it's old.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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• Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

  Quentin Crisp

  Sad, Being Yourself, Teenage

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• I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.

  Gilda Radner

  Witty, Funny Inspirational, Life And Love

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• Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.

  Charles Churchill

  Knavery, Use, May

  1761 The Rosciad, l.455-6.

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• Fashion seldom interferes with nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Grace, Efficiency, Interfere

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1852). “The Optimist: A Series of Essays”, p.248

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• What I've done, Coco Chanel would never have done. She would have hated it.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Done, Hated

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• I always feel that if you're gonna be uncomfortable and unhappy in something, just because you think it's in or it's chic, I would advise you to be happy rather than well-dressed. It's better to be happy.

  Iris Apfel

  Thinking, Unhappy, Chic

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• When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don't get carried away-it's only dresses.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Challenges, Dresses, Complaining

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• I'm a very down-to-earth person, but it is my job to make that earth more pleasant.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Jobs, Earth, Persons

  "Karl Lagerfeld Has 1,000 High-Collared White Shirts, His Father Made Condensed Milk, and More Fascinating Karl Intel!" by Danica Lo, www.glamour.com. November 7, 2011.

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• When a popular phenomenon reaches the cover of 'Time,' it is already out of fashion.

  Richard Holloway

  Popular Song, Phenomenon

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• Conformity is the only real fashion crime. To not dress like yourself and to sublimate your spirit to some kind of group identity is succumbing to fashion fascism.

  Simon Doonan

  Real, Identity, Groups

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• Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.

  William Hazlitt

  Issues, Clothes, Vain

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.205

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• Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality.

  Alexander McQueen

  Looks, Pieces, Sexuality

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• The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

  Honore de Balzac

  Men, Fool, Rich

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• I often take a brand-new suit or hat and throw it up against the wall a few times to get that stiff, square newness out of it.

  Fred Astaire

  Wall, Squares, Suits

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