Famous Quotes & Sayings

Odilon Redon

All my originality consists?in giving life in human fashion to beings which are impossible according to the laws of possibility.

Oksana Baiul

I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.

Norman O. Brown

Utopian speculations ... must come back into fashion. They are a way of affirming faith in the possibility of solving problems that seem at the moment insoluble. Today even the survival of humanity is a utopian hope.

Oscar de la Renta

A woman plays such an active role in society. And today, the woman who influences fashion is not that very rich woman who sits at home and polishes her nails. It's the one who works, who is a doer, who does things by dressing. She's very strongly projecting an image of herself as an individual.

Oscar de la Renta

The Council of Fashion Designers of America is a national neurotic society of creative leaders in various fields of fashion.

Oscar de la Renta

I would like better to be known as the Godfather of Fashion, with all the implications that that word has.

Oscar de la Renta

I have always felt my role as a designer is to do the very best I can for a woman to make her look her best. Fashion is only fashion once a woman puts it on.

Oscar de la Renta

Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.

Oscar de la Renta

When a woman falls in love with something so much that she wants to wear it- it is at that point that it becomes fashion.

Oscar de la Renta

It's important to excite the imagination of a woman.

Oscar de la Renta

I always design my own hats to complete my fashion thought....I like them slightly mad, like this huge black poppy. Right now I lift the bosom high on coats and dresses...I am using so many high curved belts.

Oscar de la Renta

Fashion is about the present and the immediate future. I think in terms of now.

Oscar de la Renta

There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.

Oscar de la Renta

In fashion, the most important thing is to move on.

Oscar de la Renta

We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.

Oscar de la Renta

Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is more knowledgeable, and I have to be better every single day.

Oscar de la Renta

A runway is spectacle. It’s only fashion when a woman puts it on.

Oscar de la Renta

Today, there is no fashion, really. There are just . . . choices. Women dress today to reveal their personalities. They used to reveal the designer's personality. Until the 70s, women listened to designers. Now women want to do it their own way. There are no boundaries. And without boundaries, there is no fashion.

Oscar de la Renta

Fashion is a trend, style is within a person

Oscar de la Renta

The great thing about fashion is that it always looks forward.

Oscar de la Renta

Fashions change and with rare exception are forgotten by the public. But the classic fragrances, like an invisible dress, endure. Fragrance must be introduced properly. A fragrance is like a signature, so that even after a woman leaves the room, her fragrance should reveal she's been there.

Oscar de la Renta

Never,ever confuse what happens on a runway with fashion. A runway is spectacle. It's only fashion when a woman puts it on. Being well dressed hasn't much to do with having good clothes. It's a question of good balance and good common sense.

Oscar de la Renta

The well dressed man never stands out in a crowd; his elegance sets him apart.

Oscar de la Renta

Elegance is a discipline of life.

Oscar de la Renta

Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.

Oscar de la Renta

Walk like you have three men walking behind you.

Oleg Cassini

Good shoulders and a long waist are the most necessary when it comes to wearing clothes.

Oleg Cassini

Fashion anticipates ... elegance is a state of mind.

Oleg Cassini

Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of the future, and should never be static.

Olga Kurylenko

To tell you the truth, I don't really follow what men wear. Men's fashion is much simpler than women's. It doesn't change as much.

Octave Mirbeau

You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation.

Novala Takemoto

Fashion was my teacher.It taught me how to live. When I see clothes I want to become worthy of them.

Ellen Glasgow

I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go, I have never yet encountered a mode of thinking that regarded itself as simply a changing fashion, and not as an infallible approach to the right culture.