Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it; nor at any time in the extremes of it.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Take here the grand secret; if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to fashion.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Art is a severe business; most serious when employed in grand and sacred objects. The artist stands higher than art, higher than the object. He uses art for his purposes, and deals with the object after his own fashion.

Hamish Bowles

Essentially what you're doing is collaborating with the photographer to create an image that reflects the fashion you're trying to capture and also hold a mirror up to the zeitgeist at the moment.

Hamish Bowles

I was ten years old when my first Vogue cover sang me its siren call and dashed me against the treacherous rocks of fashion obsession.

Hamish Bowles

Alexander McQueen's heartbreakingly premature death, at the height of his creativity and influence, has robbed the fashion world of a soaring and unique talent.

Graydon Carter

Fashion is a dangerous road to go down. Anybody who is going to have children later in life had best not be too fashionable because the photos will come back to haunt them.

Gordon Parks

So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.

John Malkovich

Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you.

John Malkovich

I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.

John Malkovich

Scary monsters are like Hula Hoops. They come in and out of fashion.

John Locke

Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.

John Locke

False and doubtful positions, relied upon as unquestionable maxims, keep those who build on them in the dark from truth. Such are usually the prejudices imbibed from education, party, reverence, fashion, interest, et cetera.

John Locke

When Fashion hath once Established, what Folly or craft began, Custom makes it Sacred, and 'twill be thought impudence or madness, to contradict or question it.

John Locke

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

John Legend

London is a good fashion city. They're a little more daring. There's the element of the aristocracy, which is always interesting.

John Lancaster Spalding

To think of education as a means of preserving institutions however excellent, is to have a superficial notion of its end and purpose, which is to mould and fashion men who are more than institutions, who create, outgrow, and re-create them.

John Banville

It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.

Joanna Lumley

I think handbags, not so much clothes anymore, but I think you can tell a fashion victim by their handbag.

It's fashion, and we just can't always use the same way to promote the brand.

Karl Lagerfeld

It's the revival of color, movement, liberty. It's fashion with less intellectual pretension. It's very down-to-earth and not at all up-to-the-moon.

It's not whether you're a size 2 or a size 42. Fashion reflects your personality.

Bill Self

You can't lose when you are up seven with a minute-and-a-half left. It's one thing to lose. It's another to lose in the fashion we did. We helped them come back to win.

There wasn't an international fashion week in the southern hemisphere at that point.

It's a fashion queeny thing this year, but by next year it will go mass,

Tinie Tempah

This is the kind of fashion I grew up on - a good pair of trainers, great denim - and I will always love high-end streetwear.

I've always had an interest in the fashion side of pop culture.

Gloria Estefan

Fashion is nice, but it's for the fans. If it were up to me, I'd be in a sweat suit!