The fashion industry tends to attract people with serious personality defects. They just want to be rich and famous. But at some point you have to de…

- Katharine Hamnett

The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was saying: Look …

- Katharine Hamnett

You might think people would buy clothes out of pity, but they won’t. People buy clothes because they want to be excited about themselves. ...it h…

- Katharine Hamnett

Emphasize the best, and minimize the rest

- Katharine Hamnett

Every experience permanently alters the way you perceive beauty

- Katharine Hamnett

I think the challenge is, in fashion everybody wants to get rich and famous and it's easy to get rich and famous by being a bad person. But the chall…

- Katharine Hamnett

The price of clothes may be low, but they are paid for with human lives.

- Katharine Hamnett