Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anna Quindlen

high fashion has little to do with what women wear and a lot to do with what retailers mark down later.

Anna Quindlen

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

Angie Dickinson

I dress for women and I undress for men.

Cindy Sherman

The models have always been the least interesting thing about fashion.

Cindy Margolis

I was really stuck in the whole Farah Fawcett hairdo long after it was past being in fashion.

Cindy Crawford

Fashion and style is just that. Fashion and style. It's not brain surgery.

Andrew Jackson

There goes a man made by the Lord Almighty and not by his tailor.

Amy Vanderbilt

The best-dressed women I know pay very little attention to the picayune aspects of fashion, but they have a sound understanding of style.

Anthony Burgess

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

Anthony Bourdain

In this way, writers are indeed, as Henry Miller suggested, traitors to the human race. We may turn a light on inequity, injustice, and oppression from time to time, but we regularly kill what we love in insidious fashion.

Andy Warhol

Fashion is more art than art is

Andy Warhol

I want to die with my blue jeans on.

Andy Warhol

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

Ann Rinaldi

Because I had already resolved that if you're afraid of love, your heart will break anyway, only in not half so nice a fashion as it does when you let somebody love you.

Anant Agarwal

We already have a professor who's using an online social network of MIT alums to help educate students in programming. Just imagine expanding that in Facebook-fashion to tens or hundreds of millions of people around the world.

Analeigh Tipton

Stay simple and true to your gut. If you feel uncomfortable in something, no matter how fashion-forward it is, it's going to look funny. At the end of the day, I don't think it really matters what you're wearing, because if you shine through in that confidence, you really can convince anybody that what you're wearing is great...as long as it doesn't have too many sparkles!

Anatole France

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

Anatole France

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.

Anne Carson

It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself,

Anne Hathaway

I think fashion is a lot of fun. I love clothes. More than fashion or brand labels, I love design. I love the thought that people put into clothes. I love when clothes make cultural statements and I think personal style is really cool. I also freely recognize that fashion should be a hobby.

Anne Hathaway

There's nothing wrong with the fashion industry. What's wrong is changing yourself for something you don't really care about just to get somewhere faster.

Anja Rubik

I don't put any rules to my style; I think fashion is something that you should play with... even if you make a mistake, it's okay, it's only fashion.

Anita Roddick

The beauty and the fashion industry want to control you. And the way that they do it through your body. So once they control your body they control your purse and the products you buy. Its a fantastic strategy and it's working.

William Shakespeare

New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous (Nay, let em be unmanly), yet are followed.

William Shakespeare

O good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat but for promotion, And having that do choke their service up Even with the having. . . .

William Shakespeare

Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation

William Shakespeare

What's brave, what's noble, let's do it after the Roman fashion.

We'll move in as timely a fashion as we can.

Tim Gunn

But if fashion were easy, wouldn't everybody look great ?

Tim Gunn

I've never said I'm a fashion designer.

Tim Gunn

I'm conflicted. On one hand, I don't want to say that because you were a man and now you're a woman, you can't be in a women's fashion show. But I feel it's a dicey issue. The fact of the matter is, when you are transgender - if you go, say, male to female - you're not having your pelvis broken and having it expanded surgically. You still have the anatomical bone structure of a man.

Thorstein Veblen

Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities of the vulgar.

Fashion takes its inspiration from society and everyday life, which is the same for everyone, and this is perhaps the reason why certain elements recur.