Fashion Quotes

It was a mating dance only slightly more dignified than presenting like a mandrill, but endearing in its own fashion.

~ James S.a. Corey

Hermione was back, holding out a gossamer dress of rainbow chiffon so airy I thought of fireflies on a moonlight night.

~ Ruth Reichl

They took they hit the cobblestone streets to look at churches, with Isabella wearing suede Manolos. She's breaking her legs and I tell her it's just ridiculous and that she had to get some proper shoes. She bought and put on a pair of espadrilles and promptly broke into tears. I can't. I can't. Everytime I look down on my feet I feel so depressed. Roberts said, Well, are you going to be depressed or are you going to have a broken ankle? I am going to have a broken ankle she said and she threw the shoes away.

~ Lauren Goldstein Crowe

The woman who emerged had to be eight feet tall. Her hair was every shade of purple, piled in buns and hanging in braids, and all of it sprinkled with gems like stars.

~ Brenda Cooper

Normally, all I'm interested in is what the person has created. Hopefully they're not a mass murderer or mass rapist, but their personality is not important to me at that stage. They've got to be pretty extraordinary to make things like that anyway.

~ Isabella Blow

To express oneself fluently involves more than simply speaking the language properly. It includes inflection, voice, posture, gestures, and clothing. All of these elements add up to an individual’s personal expression. They are the elements of style.

~ Kate Betts

Mortals trotted about in shoes and corsets made to limit movement, fashion for prey.

~ Gail Carriger

And her old Uncle William used to say a lady is known byher shoes and her gloves.

~ Virginia Woolf

If you cannot walk more than a block in your shoes, they are not shoes; they are pretty sculptures that you happen to have attached to your feet. You could hang them from your wrists for all the good they are doing you in terms of locomotion. Better to put them on a shelf and admire them from afar.

~ Linda Przybyszewski

Trends are about as fickle as the direction of the wind, as are the legacies of those who flow with them.

~ Criss Jami

Why do we go to all this trouble' Parker asked. 'Men don't notice anyway.''Because what we wear affects how we feel, how we act, how we move. And that they do notice. Especially the move. Get dressed, smoke the eyes. You'll know you look good so you'll feel good. You'll have a better time.

~ Nora Roberts

Nothing is more hip than a corpse. The style is timeless. Death is trending.

~ Chris Campanioni

She first peered into its fascinating cases of beetles and butterflies at the age of six, in the company of her father. She recalls her pity at each occupant pinned for display. It was no great leap to draw the same conclusion of ladies: similarly bound and trussed, pinned and contained, with the objective of being admired, in all their gaudy beauty.

~ Emmanuelle De Maupassant

Adorn yourself with modest dressing.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I dress to withstand the elements. I dress to be as interesting as the Tate. I dress to insert myself into social strata, to be accepted, to pass.

~ Caitlynn Cummings

I've no interest on initiating a fashion trend on Coruscant or anywhere else. I simply want a uniform that fits - Tarkin

~ James Luceno

Oi, doll, ignore him,' said Sia, using a notebook to fan her face. 'Sweet lord, I'm like a human hot-water bottle wrapped in doona in front of a heater at the moment. And did I tell you about the constant farting?

~ Gabrielle Tozer

You limit your options every time you don't try your best.

~ Stacy London

Content people give fashion a life. All the rest seek a life from fashion.

~ Newton G Kibiringi

She was wearing a sleeveless top that held her breasts in the most marvelous way, the balance between what it revealed and what it left to the imagination as poetic as a Shakespearean sonnet.

~ E.e. Giorgi

I do wish this time you'd try to dress better while you're home. Folks in town get the wrong impression of you. They think you are--ah--slumming.

~ Harper Lee

We are expected to be pretty and well-dressed until we drop.

~ Edith Wharton

Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.

~ Alexander Mcqueen

Style isn't just about what you wear, it's about how you live.

~ Lilly Pulitzer

He who seeks beauty will find it.

~ Bill Cunningham

I don't believe in wearing track pants unless you are in an actual athletic situation.

~ Carrie Mesrobian

Mr. Poyser had no reason to be ashamed of his leg, and suspected that the growing abuse of top-boots and other fashions tending to disguise the nether limbs had their origin in a pitiable degeneracy of the human calf.

~ George Eliot

I know my father blamed himself, since he is the one who discovered me pawing through his pornography in the basement as a child. Even then, I marveled at the strangeness of the women in the magazines, their hair feathered in a style I struggled to believe was ever in fashion.

~ Valentine Glass

As long as you wear clothes you love, which suit your body and your personality, it won’t matter if you’re wearing a dress that was in vogue five years ago; you’ll still look amazing. Also, somebody has to START new trends, and that somebody could be you.

~ Rosie Blythe

But don’t you find it boring to wear only two colors?” “Not at all. I find it liberating. I believe my life has value, and I don’t want to waste it thinking about clothing,” Malcolm said. “I don’t want to think about what I will wear in the morning. Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion? Professional sports, perhaps. Grown men swatting little balls, while the rest of the world pays money to applaud. But, on the whole, I find fashion even more tedious than sports.

~ Michael Crichton

Oh! do look at Miss Oriel's bonnet the next time you see her. I cannot understand why it should be so, but I am sure of this—no English fingers could put together such a bonnet as that; and I am nearly sure that no French fingers could do it in England.

~ Anthony Trollope

I love the fashion which is out of fashion.

~ Megha Khare

Hoffland, as it was called, was, next to Moda Polska (simply “Polish Fashion”) one of the rare examples of the quasi-private, though officially nationalized fashion companies in Poland. Both have survived communism, and Hoff kept designing well into the 90s. You could be sure, that if Hoff wrote about a new style for wearing a shawl in her column, the same afternoon there would already be dozens of girls on the streets trying to copy this style. Her flagship idea was blackening the “coffin shoes” (i.e. light, paper shoes, used as footwear for the deceased) which when colored black could pass as elegant “ballerinas”.

~ Agata Pyzik

Yoga pants often answer questions I didn't ask.

~ Tim Heaton

I had walked all over the fragile bloom of his heart like a Boadicea in Blahniks

~ Tyne O'connell

Vulgar, but not as vulgar as Louis Vuitton, thought Sherman.

~ Tom Wolfe

The message sent by this policy is that if women are to be accepted into the exclusive ranks of men, then they have to look like men: buttoned up, stuffy, and no-nonsense. As if to show a little cleavage, to highlight a curvaceous figure, or to in any way appear feminine would discount, discredit, and disqualify them.I strongly disagree with this idea. I feel that women should wear clothes that suit their bodies rather than forcing themselves into unflattering men's suits and that it is feminist to make a wide range of women's clothes acceptable business attire.

~ Tim Gunn

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

~ George Meredith

Speaking of high-end shoe designers, in 2011 it was fascinating to see the design company of Christian Louboutin try to stop the company Yves Saint Laurent from producing high heels with red soles, claiming that Louboutin was the originator of the red sole. Louboutin lost, and I was glad. He was not the first person to paint a sole, and I am wary of patenting a color, like Tiffany blue. Why should we grant that entire history to Louboutin and say there are no predecessors and should be no successors?

~ Tim Gunn

I love the word 'fashion.' That's why I'm using it in the title of this book. Fashion is about change and about creating clothes within a historical context. To me, dismissing fashion as silly or unimportant seems like a denial of history and frequently a show of sexism—as if something that's traditionally a concern of women isn't valid as a field of academic inquiry. When the Parsons fashion department was founded in 1906, it was called 'costume design,' because fashion was then a verb: to fashion. But the word 'fashion' has evolved to mean something much more profound, and those who resist it seem to me to be on the wrong side of history.

~ Tim Gunn