Quotes on Fashion

Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct.

Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women I have known. Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes.

No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness.

Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace with a wand the wanderings of the heavens and foretell the rising of stars. But you, Roman, remember to rule the peoples with power (these will be your arts); impose the habit of peace, spare the vanquished and war down the proud!

The most important part of fashion photography, for me, is not the models; it's not the clothes. It's that you are responsible for defining what a woman today is. That, I think, is my job.

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

A beautiful dress may look beautiful on a hanger, but that means nothing. It must be seen on the shoulders, with the movement of the arms, the legs, and the waist.

Happy girls are the prettiest girls.

I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.

Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!

I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.

To pull off any look, wear it with confidence.

What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language.

It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.

Fashion is in the sky, in the street.

Fashion is everything that can pass fashionable

Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart.

There's never a new fashion but it's old.

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

I don't want to end my career and then start something. I like to do something while my career is still hot and I've always enjoyed designing.

The paradoxes of today are the prejudices of tomorrow, since the most benighted and the most deplorable prejudices have had their moment of novelty when fashion lent them its fragile grace.