Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francisco Costa

I wanted to be involved with fashion, though I didn't know what being a designer meant.

Francis Quarles

Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it, nor too precisely in it; what custom hath civilized is become decent, till then ridiculous; where the eye is the jury thy apparel is the evidence.

Francis Quarles

In thy apparel avoid singularity, profuseness, and gaudiness. Be not too early in the fashion, nor too late. Decency is half way between affectation and neglect. The body is the shell of the soul, apparel is the husk of that shell; the husk often tells you what the kernel is.

Horace Walpole

Fashion is always silly, for, before it can spread far, it must be calculated for silly people; as examples of sense, wit, or ingenuity could be imitated only by a few.

Horace Walpole

Fashion is fortunately no law but to its devotees.

Horace Mann

In dress, seek the middle between foppery and shabbiness.

Giorgio Armani

China approaches fashion with strong enthusiasm. And I believe that this enthusiasm can be translated into something interesting, economically speaking. Not only for my brand, but also for other brands.

Giorgio Armani

I've used a lot of jersey, but I've also done a lot of complex pattern weaves in these fabrics in solid colors, and there are lots of little dresses for cocktail and evening. I've done a series of very important evening dresses as well, just to show that these two ideas can also work well together. Today's woman can wear an important evening dress or a simple pant and top. It's all in the personality of the woman.

Giorgio Armani

The difference between Fashion and Style is Quality

Giorgio Armani

I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet, ... The White T.

Giorgio Armani

It was a long time ago, we were in the office, and we had finished work exhausted. A friend of a friend said 'Hey, take this it will give you energy,' so I thought I'd try it. I didn't know what it was. It made me laugh and laugh, like crazy...to the point that my back hurt' *he holds his hips* 'like I'd just had a baby.

Giorgio Armani

Working with Cate Blanchett, on and off the screen, has always been a highlight for me. She embodies the perfect combination of consummate actor and world-class fashion icon.

Giorgio Armani

I find that fashion recently has been a little too hasty. Often times, it's put together quickly to catch the attention of the media, and I didn't want to do that.

Giorgio Armani

I've tried to find a new elegance. It's not easy because people want to be shocked. They want explosive fashion. But explosions don't last, they disappear immediately and leave nothing but ashes.

Giorgio Armani

Elegance is not standing out, but being remembered.

Giorgio Armani

The goal I seek is to have people refine their style through my clothing without having them become victims of fashion.

Giorgio Armani

The creative universe begins with its essentiality, and, whatever path the imagination takes, ends with its purity.

Giorgio Armani

I don't like women who follow fashion in the sense of becoming victims of it. I like women who have elegance, who have allure, who use fashion, rather than the other way around.

Giorgio Armani

I like to think that I can introduce people to the idea of simplicity and elegance.

Giorgio Armani

Jeans represent democracy in fashion.

Giorgio Armani

Technical garments for sporting performance will, I believe, simply become more and more fit for purpose and will perform better and better. What is perhaps more interesting is how this technology will cross over into the fashion mainstream. We already see this trend in everything from footwear to outerwear.

Giorgio Armani

Of course sportsmen and women are not only great role models, they are great fashion models too, as they are at the peak of physical perfection.

Giorgio Armani

The essence of style is a simple way of saying something complex.

Giorgio Armani

The difference between style and fashion is quality.

Geraldine Stutz

Fashion says 'Me too', and style says 'Only me'.

I think music influences fashion and has done so for generations.

Fashion is about fun, you know, and I think a lot of people forget that sometimes.

I'd love to do a fashion label in the future. I've been thinking a lot recently about maybe making a line of little dresses, so maybe one day.

Ivan Chermayeff

There are not many designers who are truly creative and literate. Most are self-indulgent, illiterate, fashion-mongering, service people trying to bridge a message between a product and an audience.

Ivan Chermayeff

A good trademark, whether a word mark or a symbol, is devoid of fashion or trend, which makes it potentially iconic if it's seen for long enough in the right places.

H. G. Wells

If we suppose a sufficient righteousness and intelligence in men to produce presently, from the tremendous lessons of history, an effective will for a world peace--that is to say, an effective will for a world law under a world government--for in no other fashion is a secure world peace conceivable--in what manner may we expect things to move towards this end? . . . It is an educational task, and its very essence is to bring to the minds of all men everywhere, as a necessary basis for world cooperation, a new telling and interpretation, a common interpretation, of history.

H. L. Mencken

There are no institutions in America: there are only fashions.

Gunnar Myrdal

People become less inhibited from wanting to change social and economic conditions in a radical fashion according to their own interests, and from being prepared to think of state intervention in ever wider spheres as possible and useful for this purpose.