Quotes on Fashion

To me, fashion is like a mirror. It's a reflection of the times. And if it doesn't reflect the times, it's not fashion. Because people aren't gonna be wearing it.

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.

I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.

If I can have any impact, I want women to feel good about themselves and have fun with fashion

I lost 200lb to wear suits by Hedi Slimane

Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory.

Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring.

When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don't get carried away-it's only dresses.

Trendy is the last stage before tacky.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

And in Life's noisiest hour,_x000D_ _x000D_ There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee,_x000D_ _x000D_ The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy._x000D_ _x000D_ You mould my Hopes, you fashion me within.

I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

Leaving out the gamblers, the burglars, and the plumbers, perhaps we do put our trust in God after a fashion. But, after all, it is an overstatement. If the cholera or black plague should come to these shores, perhaps the bulk of the nation would pray to be delivered from it, but the rest would put their trust in The Health Board.

My attitude is if fashion says it's forbidden, I'm going to do it.

To allow only the kind of art that the average man understands is the worst small-mindedness and the murder of mind and spirit. It is my conviction that the intellect can be certain that in doing what most disconcerts the crowd, in pursuing the most daring, unconventional advances and explorations, it will in some highly indirect fashion serve man - and in the long run, all men.

I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring. To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read. More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have. You know, all those incredible geniuses concentrated their lifetimes' experiences in books. It's much better than chattering away to somebody who's never read anything and knows nothing at all.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

For anyone of a rational disposition, fashion is often nearly impossible to fathom. Throughout many periods of history – perhaps most – it can seem as if the whole impulse of fashion has been to look maximally ridiculous. If one could be maximally uncomfortable as well, the triumph was all the greater.