Fashion Quotes

Costume design allows you to do a different type of research and create characters, whereas in fashion, you create an image and clothing for the masses.

~ Colleen Atwood

I studied literature design and fashion design.

~ Danielle Steel

I was eager to see what Swedish design had to offer and get a sense of its fashion culture, and Altewai Saome was the perfect introduction.

~ Aslaug Magnusdottir

Aficionados of Slow design and Slow fashion use ethical and green materials to make objects - furniture, clothes, jewellery - that lift the spirit and last a lifetime rather than one catwalk season.

~ Carl Honoré

I love fashion, and I've always wanted to do costume design, but I'm in jeans and T-shirts most of the time.

~ Clemence Poesy

I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century.

~ Tim Gunn

With fashion, you really need to understand the aspects of construction. Not just design on an iPad.

~ Tim Gunn

I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side.

~ Tommy Hilfiger

Brizo has been my single biggest sponsor since I began as a designer. Brizo wanted to be involved in many different areas of design - they had already worked with several architects, and fashion was an area they were interested in moving into.

~ Jason Wu

I'm a fashion designer, not a shoe designer. I like to design clothes.

~ Dries Van Noten

I don't read fashion blogs all that much. I do read magazines, and I trust my friends' opinions, even though we all dress very differently.

~ Sophia Amoruso

I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening.

~ Steven Cojocaru

Beauty and fashion are not really local anymore. You really have to be a global citizen to know what trends are. Now, it's pretty much the same designers and the same kind of trends, whether I am in New York, Milan, or Mumbai - it's the same.

~ Priyanka Chopra

Now, I'm not saying I'm fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion.

~ Miuccia Prada

Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart.

~ Miuccia Prada

I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation.

~ David Lachapelle

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

~ Francis Bacon

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

~ Jean Cocteau

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.

~ Kary Mullis

Fashion really is women's liberation in a lot of ways. Look at how many women in this country are depressed about how they look and how they think they have to look! It's really sad. And it's not about money.

~ Iris Apfel

Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.

~ Lady Gaga

I get kind of sad when I look at all of my magazines and think about how at one time I was much more impressed with a certain fashion editorial, or how I feel like I can't really relate to being that excited about fashion anymore. Maybe it's being jaded, but I honestly like that now, when something's really good, I feel more affected by it.

~ Tavi Gevinson

No matter how old and glorious the models, sad indeed is the woman who sees fashion as a means of self-expression rather than an agent of social control.

~ Julie Burchill

But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.

~ Janice Dickinson

Britain has trend-setting fashion, ground-breaking scientists, and innovative technology companies. It is also a welcome home for investors.

~ Princess Beatrice Of York

My mom read French 'Elle' when I was a little girl, and so, when I was 15 or 16, I said, 'I want to work in fashion.'

~ Carine Roitfeld

From singing to acting to songwriting to mom to fashion designer! It's been quite an evolution.

~ Christina Milian

My mom and both of my grandmothers have always been into fashion, so it's been around us our whole lives.

~ Kourtney Kardashian

After my mom died, there was so much written about her fashion and her style and all that, and I felt that one of the most important parts of her was missing, her real intellectual curiosity.

~ Caroline Kennedy

My mom definitely inspires me. She's just crazy when it comes to her fashion sense.

~ Lourdes Leon Ciccone

It's the fashion, I tell you: big, tall women going out with tiny, tiny men.

~ Nicholas Haslam

Creative industries are more important than the car industry, luxury jewels, and fashion.

~ Jean-Michel Jarre

My mum is great for keeping hold of old classics - pieces of clothing that never age and never go out of fashion. She also says, 'Make sure you always smile - it makes everything look better!'

~ Amber Le Bon

It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.

~ J. R. R. Tolkien

The fashion industry now has a direct relationship with its customers. Thanks to things like Twitter, ideas can be shared and circulated.

~ Stefano Gabbana

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

~ Marlene Dietrich

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

~ Anthony Burgess

Just as you can't blindly follow fashion, you can't follow fitness, either.

~ Anushka Sharma

Too much redesign has to do more with fad and fashion than with fitness and function. It is change for the sake of change. Such redesign is not only unnecessary, it is all too often also retrogressive, leading to things that work less effectively than those they were designed to replace.

~ Henry Petroski

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.

~ Jane Austen