Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katharine Hepburn

I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.

Kate Hudson

To do high fashion, you have to go into a little bit of a higher price point.

Judith Thurman

Long before feminism made fashion a guilty pleasure, my first experience of the sisterhood among strangers took place in a communal dressing room.

George Kotsiopoulos

For slaves to fashion, the rules are made to be broken.

George Kotsiopoulos

I learned everything about fashion during my time at the 'NY Times.

George Kotsiopoulos

I am beyond excited about my partnership with Gap Factory stores because they provide affordable, on-trend, high quality fashion for people of all ages. I have been a fan of the brand ever since I was a kid and have been wearing it ever since. The Gap brand is iconic like apple pie and I am honored to be a party of the family.

Emily Ratajkowski

The attention from the fashion world is something that I didn't expect. I've shot with Bruce Weber and met Karl Lagerfeld. Having that kind of attention is really exciting.

Ellie Goulding

I don't really have a style icon but I really admire the way people dress like Gaga, Rihanna and Gwen Stefani. It's good to be inspired by singers who write music and dress incredibly - rather than models and people in the fashion industry who dress immaculately anyway because it's their style.

Ellie Goulding

I can fall in love in a simple way, but I can dissect it in such an intense fashion when it ends.

Ellie Goulding

I just sing and write songs and wear what I want. It's quite a good job really. If I wanted to I suppose I could become more of a fashion icon, but singing is my thing.

Elaine Chao

Given the rest of the economic news, including the fact that GDP growth is positive, inflation is still low, jobless claims are still moving downward and temporary services are firming up, that means the recovery continues, and we hope it will continue in a more robust fashion,

John Crowe Ransom

It is out of fashion in these days to look backward rather than forward. About the only American given to it is some unreconstructed Southerner, who persists in his regard for a certain terrain, a certain history, and a certain inherited way of living.

John Constable

The climax of absurdity to which art may be carried when led away from nature by fashion, may be best seen in the works of Boucher...

John Burroughs

[T]he cold warms me—after a different fashion from that of the kitchen stove.

Joe Bastianich

Frankly, Milan kind of sucks as a restaurant city. Its so fashion-obsessed that people dont pay that much attention to the food.

Joan Crawford

Any actress who appears in public without being well-groomed is digging her own grave.

Joan Crawford

1. Find your own style and have the courage to stick to it. 2. Choose your clothes for your way of life. 3. Make your wardrobe as versatile as an actress. It should be able to play many roles. 4. Find your happiest colours - the ones that make you feel good. 5. Care for your clothes, like the good friends they are!

Logan Pearsall Smith

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave

Logan Pearsall Smith

You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate

Lloyd Alexander

A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths to wisdom, this is the cruelest and longest. Are you one who must follow such a way? This even I cannot know. If you are, take heart nonetheless. Those who reach the end do more than gain wisdom. As rough wool becomes cloth, and crude clay a vessel, so do they change and fashion wisdom for others, and what they give back is greater than what they won.

Manolo Blahnik

Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.

Manolo Blahnik

Paris is paramount for fashion, always was - always will be.

Manolo Blahnik

I don't consider myself a fashion designer.

Manolo Blahnik

What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail.

Manolo Blahnik

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.

Louis Sullivan

Form follows function.

Louis Sullivan

When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains, ask yourself the question: Not what style, but in what civilization is this building? And the absurdity, vulgarity, anachronism and solecism of the modern structure will be revealed to you in a most startling fashion.

John Flanagan

He waited while Gilan and Will moved the cloaks experimentally, eyeing each other and studying the unusual colors, seeing how they would blend into the landscape of rock and desert that surrounded Al Shabah. All right, ladies," he said, "if you're finished with the fashion show, let's go meet the Wakir.

John F. Kennedy

We've spent half the expenditures, we've wrecked our budget on all these other domestic programs, and the only justification for it, in my opinion, to do it in the pell-mell fashion is because we hope to beat them and demonstrate that starting behind them, as we did by a couple of years, by God, we passed them. I think it would be a helluva thing for us.

Judith Krantz

I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21, working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine.

Katherine Dunn

It goes in streaks. But some things never go out of fashion.' Hunger artists, fat folks, giants, and dog acts come and go but real freaks never lose their appeal.

James Laver

Every style seems completely appropriate to its epoch. We cannot imagine Madame de Pompadour, or the Empress Josephine, or the early Victorian lady in anything but the clothes she actually wore. Each represents completely the ideals of her time: elegant artificiality or post-Revolutionary morals, or the prudery of the rising middle class.