Quotes on Fashion

There is no fashion for the old.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only.

Fashion changes, Style remains

I don't do fashion, I'm fashion

Fashion becomes unfashionable. Style never.

Where would fashion be without literature?

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together ... Speech is too often ... the act of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal ... Speech is of Time, silence is of Eternity ... It is idle to think that, by means of words, any real communication can ever pass from one man to another.

Fashion can be about escapism but I have always been interested in the aspirational side of it - wanting to present the self you hope eventually to become.

Drag, at its core, is about honoring yourself and your own unique way of being a gendered, queer person. Your own unique way of using fashion to express yourself.

When I design and wonder what the point is, I think of someone having a bad time in their life. Maybe they are sad and they wake up and put on something I have made and it makes them feel just a bit better. So, in that sense, fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But only a little.

I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.

I do fashion to tell a narrative.

I always say I hope to God I die in a town with a good tailor, a good shoemaker, and perhaps someone who's interested in a little quelque chose d'autre.

An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.

Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.