One of the most important things about fashion is to dress as well as you can, look as attractive as you can, and at the same time be comfortable with yourself. Be easy about your clothes; forget about them.
Interpretation
Fashion should balance attractiveness and comfort while embracing self-acceptance.
This quote emphasizes that fashion is not just about looking good, but also about being at ease with oneself. It encourages individuals to dress in a way that enhances their appeal without compromising their comfort, promoting an attitude of relaxed confidence about one's clothing choices.
In practice
In a fashion seminar discussing the importance of confidence and comfort in personal style.
There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!
The little black dress is the true friend...she travels with you...is patient and constant...you go to her when you don't know where else to go and she is ALWAYS reliable and timeless.
All women are strong. My mother survived Auschwitz, and fear wasn't an option when we were growing up. If we were afraid of the dark, we were put into the closet until we weren't.
You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.
A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials.
I design for the woman who loves being a woman.
Fashion goes in only one direction -forward- and I am a firm believer in thinking that way too.
It's not true that clothes look better on skinny girls; what counts is the attitude.
When I started, I knew nothing about fashion. I remember, my first day going to my agency, I was wearing these huge bell-bottoms - they were patchwork corduroy and denim, which, at the time, I thought were amazing. My agent told me, 'You have a casting with Prada - you have to burn those jeans.'
Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
These heels are candy for the feet; they’re for pleasure, not practicality.
These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.