Fashion Quotes - Page 13

• Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

  Henry Fielding

  Science, Inspire, Desire

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• Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Style, Dull

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• If you are trying to slip out without waking a sleeping man, zips are a nightmare. Haven't you ever tried to creep out of the room unnoticed the following morning? I've done that many times.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Morning, Sleep, Men

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• If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed, but either too stiff, too tight, or too fashionable.

  Beau Brummell

  People, Looks, Well Dressed

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• Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept

  Robert Bork

  Wind, Law, Intellectual

  Robert H. Bork (1984). “Tradition and Morality in Constitutional Law”, Aei Press

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• You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Utterance, Weak, Mortals

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• Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.

  Diana Vreeland

  World, Release, Banality

  Diana Vreeland (1985). “D.V.”, Vintage

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• I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules,including: Both of your socks should always be the same color, Or they should at least both be fairly dark.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humor, Dark

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• I always say I hope to God I die in a town with a good tailor, a good shoemaker, and perhaps someone who's interested in a little quelque chose d'autre.

  Diana Vreeland

  Littles, Tailors, Towns

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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• Playing a fashion designer could be the bane of my existence because I am married to a fashion designer.

  Lori Loughlin

  Married, Corny, Designer

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• You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.

  Neil Kinnock

  Two, Half, Wit

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• When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect.

  M. H. Abrams

  Thinking, People, Complaining

  "Honored literary scholar M.H. Abrams continues his labors (of love)". Interview with Linda Grace-Kobas, news.cornell.edu. June 11, 1999.

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• HELPED are those who live in quietness, knowing neither brand name nor fad; they shall live every day as if in eternity, and each moment shall be as full as it is long.

  Alice Walker

  Names, Knowing, Long

  Alice Walker (1990). “The Temple of My Familiar”

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• There is no such thing as 'on the way out' as long as you are still doing something interesting and good; you're in the business because you're breathing.

  Louis Armstrong

  Breathing, Long, Interesting

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• The world will see many fashions of art and most of the world will follow the fashions and make none. These cults - these 'movements' - are absolutely necessary, or at any rate their causes are, for somewhere in their centres are the ones who bear the Idea, the ones who have questioned, 'But what do I think?' and 'How shall I say it best?

  Robert Henri

  Art, Thinking, Ideas

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  Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Leadership, Spiritual

  "The Recognitions". Book by William Gaddis, "Anselm", p. 457, 1955.

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• Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again.

  Douglas Coupland

  Thinking, Looks

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “JPod”, p.65, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• There is a heel that is too high to walk in, certainly. But who cares? You don't have to walk in high heels.

  Christian Louboutin

  High Heels, Who Cares, Walks

  "Christian Louboutin: How killer heels conquered fashion". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2010.

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• Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

  Bo Derek

  Funny, Money, Window Shopping

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

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• Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.

  Jean Cocteau

  Beautiful, Art, Ugly Things

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• Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

  Orson Welles

  Successful, Unique, Design

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• Playing dress up begins at age 5 and never really ends.

  Kate Spade

  Playing Dress Up, Age, Dresses

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• Attitude is everything.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Attitude, Heartfelt, Positive Attitude

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• We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Inspirational, Icons, Design

  Yves Saint Laurent (1983). “Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume”, p.21, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can't accept that it should originate there.

  Coco Chanel

  Accepting, Should, Streets

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