*Designers have to play many parts- artists, scientist, psychologist,
politician, mathematician, economist, salesman- combined with the stamina of the long distance runner.
-Designer Helen Storey
*The trick is to give people what they never
knew they wanted.
-Diana Vreeland Editor of American Vogue
(1963-1971)
*All
fashion is clothing, although clearly not all clothing is fashion...we need fashion rather than clothes-not to clothe our
nakedness but to clothe our self esteem.
-Colin McDowell 1995
*A lot of the time your not really designing for "fashion
people" but the general public who have some money to spend. You can't choose your customer, they choose you.
-Designer Suzanne Clements
*Designing is a matter of mixing known elements in new and
exiting ways in order to create fresh combinations and products.
-Sue Jenkyn Jones (Fashion Design)
*The principles of fashion design are not always taught,
discussed in crits or consciously employed, but they exist nonetheless.
-Sue Jenkyn Jones
* When in
doubt, wear red.
-Bill Blass
*Fashion
is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.
-Coco Chanel
*Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have
to alter it every six months.
-Oscar Wilde
*The
only thing that separates us from the animals is our ability to accessorize.
-Olympia Dukakis
*Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose
and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the common place, the slaves of the ordinary.
-Cecil Beaton
*In order to be irreplacable one must always
be different. A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
-Coco Chanel
*Zest is the secret to all beauty. There is no beauty that
is attractive without zest.
-Christian Dior
*Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.
-Elsa Schiaparelli
* Fashions fade, but style is eternal.
-Yves Saint Laurent
*The best
thing is to look natural, but it takes make-up to look natural.
-Calvin
Klein
*The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
-CocoChanel