Fashion Quotes - Page 6

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

  Vivienne Westwood

  Inspirational, Giving, Important

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• The dress must not hang on the body but follow its lines. When a woman smiles the dress must smile with her.

  Madeleine Vionnet

  Smile, Clothes, Dresses

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

  Manolo Blahnik

  Design, Half, Bread

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• Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pride, Clothes, Vanity

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.454

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• Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.

  Anatole France

  Women, Clothes, Not Interested

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• Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

  Stendhal

  Obsolete, Hideous

  Stendhal (1967). “On Love”

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• I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

  Lillian Hellman

  Peace, Integrity, Memorable

  Letter to John S. Wood, 19 May 1952.

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• I can't concentrate in flats.

  Victoria Beckham

  Shoes, Flats, I Can

  "'I Can't Concentrate in Flat Shoes,' Explains High-heel Addict Victoria Beckham". www.dailymail.co.uk. May 15, 2008.

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• They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Thinking, Dresses

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.37

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• Today, fashion is really about sensuality-how a woman feels on the inside. In the '80s women used suits with exaggerated shoulders and waists to make a strong impression. Women are now more comfortable with themselves and their bodies-they no longer feel the need to hide behind their clothes.

  Donna Karan

  Strong, Women, Clothes

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• I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Clothes, Giving, Feelings

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.48, Harvard University Press

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• He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Slave

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wise, Ridicule, Despots

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2396, Delphi Classics

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• The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.

  Dave Barry

  Humorous, Failure, Fall

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.166, Ballantine Books

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• Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Individuality, Atrocities

  George Bernard Shaw (1993). “The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929”, Viking Adult

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• I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.

  Coco Chanel

  Clothes, Giving, Naked

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• Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.

  Diana Vreeland

  Civilization, Shoes, Ends

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

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• I don't like balance. Balance is not a word you can use in Versace fashion.

  Donatella Versace

  Balance, Use, Versace

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.

  Eric Bentley

  Levels, Turns

  Eric Bentley (1986). “The Pirandello Commentaries”, p.9, Northwestern University Press

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• Sometimes I wake up and I think I should start wearing a beret, but I don't do it. One day I'm gonna, though. You bet your ass, I will have a beret on. That's ridiculous, but it's true. I always fight with wearing a beret.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Fighting

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• Fashion is all about eventually becoming naked

  Rene Konig

  Naked, Becoming

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• For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned

  George Santayana

  Ideas, Investing, Ominous

  1913 Winds of Doctrine,'Modernism and Christianity'.

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• An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Adults, Doe

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• You live but once; you might as well be amusing.

  Coco Chanel

  Life, Might, Amusing

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• Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

  Cecil Beaton

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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