I don't design clothes, I design dreams. — Ralph Lauren
I always say if I weren't a fashion designer, my other dream job is being a rock star! — Tommy Hilfiger
A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense. — Bruno Munari
I think I was the first to show that a designer could be like a rock star, that people should love your fashion but also put your name together with your fashion. — Roberto Cavalli
Marc Jacobs, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen are innovators; fashion inventors; artists who create. — Bernard Arnault
Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality. — Karl Lagerfeld
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. — Richard Buckminster Fuller
Fashion is about dreaming and making other people dream. — Donatella Versace
I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good. — Vivienne Westwood
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. 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 my passion, and I respect the creativity that you find in its different levels. — Max Azria
Certain dressmakers desire to pass for an artist. I have one ambition: that is to have good taste. — Jean Patou
I’ve been working seriously in giving fashion a place that it deserves. — Diane Von Furstenberg
Fashion is instant language. — Miuccia Prada
I love clothes and fashion more than music — Roberto Cavalli
I’ve always kind of had this interest in fashion. — Sadie Sink
Just because you work in the fashion industry, it doesn't mean you live your life in fashion. — Phillip Lim
Paris dictates fashion to the whole world. — Maria Callas
Fashion has to reflect who you are, what you feel at the moment, and where you're going. — Pharrell Williams
Top 10 Fashion Designer Quotes
Haters are just confused admirers because they can't figure out the reason why everyone loves you. — Jeffree Star
I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion. — Yohji Yamamoto
The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven't had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there. — Yves Saint Laurent
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman. — Coco Chanel
Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are. — Gianni Versace
The dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress. — Hubert de Givenchy
Elegance and comfort are not incompatible, and whoever maintains the contrary simply doesn't know what he's talking about — Salvatore Ferragamo
The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy. — Yves Saint Laurent
No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness. — Spencer W. Kimball
I find beauty in the continual shaping of chaos which clearly embodies the primordial power of nature's performance — Iris van Herpen
Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
Being A Fashion Designer Quotes
The hardest thing in fashion is not to be known for a logo, but to be known for a silhouette. — Giambattista Valli
When you're an outsider or a misfit, if you play it smart, your motto should be, 'I'll show 'em. I will show you.' — Wendy Williams
A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed. — Coco Chanel
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow you most intense obsessions mercilessly.
I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed I have been able to move beyond it. I had really all but given up trying, but I did it because it was my lifelong dream. — Vera Wang
I thought if people were going to talk about what I wear, wouldn't it be good if they were talking about who designed it, who made it and if that's a Scottish company, so teaming up with Totty Rocks has been fantastic. — Nicola Sturgeon
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. — Oleg Cassini
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Fashion design is so diverse. It does not have clear identities as before with Balenciaga, Chanel, Cardin, Courreges. Design is about being recognised without a label. Elegance alone is not sufficient. — Pierre Cardin
As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded. — Tom Ford
To me, you can't have style without being inspired. When I design a collection, I am inspired by so many things. The color of a flower. The shape of a butterly's wing. The juxtaposition of an old tenement building next to a shiny new skyscraper. — Isaac Mizrahi
People often ask me if I consider myself to be an architect, fashion designer, or artist. I'm an architect. The paintings I've done are very important to me, but they were part of a process of thinking and developing. — Zaha Hadid
I Am A Fashion Designer Quotes
It's funny, my girlfriends think that because I am married to a fashion designer, I get all these great tips and hints about great fashion, but it's not like that at all. He never tells me what to wear. — Lori Loughlin
Because I am untrained I approach my designs in an unconstrained way and I feel a freedom in this. It is unconventional but it means outcomes are not limited by traditional boundaries. — Trelise Cooper
Playing a fashion designer could be the bane of my existence because I am married to a fashion designer. — Lori Loughlin
I’ve spent some time working with a non-Italian designer, I’ve been helping him organize fashion shows, the advertising, also helping with the creative part. But the great part about this work is that I am no one! — Allegra Versace
I am a fashion designer. I'm not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I'm a mother and a wife, and number two I design clothes. So the main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer. — Stella McCartney
I would love, just once, to do costumes for a movie. I almost did some theater, but it is very different from what I am used to doing as a fashion designer. — Olivier Theyskens
I am always producing work, but there is always a sort of deadline where you have to finish work. I don't do it for a show. In other words, I am not like a fashion designer where I have a, you know - I have to put out the full line or I have to put out the summer line like that. — Robert Barry
I love to design. I am a commercial fashion designer. I always design jackets with two sleeves. I don't design jackets with three sleeves, or the layers and layers come off like little dolls from Russia. Fashion for me is a creative endeavor, but it is not art for me. — Tom Ford
As a Business Ambassador, I am delighted to help both new and established British designers receive the recognition they deserve in the global fashion arena. — Tamara Mellon
I am totally, completely, 100% in love with fashion. I would wear Chanel gowns to the grocery store if I could. I'm a huge fan of Chanel and Versace, and I actually have always dreamed of designing my own line one day. — Sayings
Black Fashion Designer Quotes
One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress. — Karl Lagerfeld
Black is not sad. Bright colours are what depress me. They're so... empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet? In a bright yellow jacket? Probably not. — Ann Demeulemeester
I wear a lot of black, knitwear, skinny jeans and very high heels. My mum used to work for a fashion designer making knitwear, so she knits me lots of chunky scarves, hats and gloves, which I love. — Katie McGrath
I have always been drawn to designing fashions that are rebellious, like black leather jackets on suburban kinds, a corset dress, punk, blue jeans. I love that. Fashion changes all the time, and what is considered extreme or elegant or luxurious (or not luxurious) is changing all the time. — Jean Paul Gaultier
I wish the iPhone people would design one that's black and has two pieces, and it plugs into the wall and you can pick one piece up and talk into it. I tell you, the whole time I had one of those old-fashioned plug-in phones, not once did I misplace it. — David Letterman
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
I love black because it affirms, designs and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke. — Yves Saint Laurent
...and motioned me toward a spot next to a middle-aged Moroi in a very formal and very designer black suit. The suit screamed, I'm sorry the queen is dead, and I'm going to look fashionable while showing my grief — Richelle Mead
Inspiring Fashion Designer Quotes
The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world. — Alicia Keys
I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence. — Yves Saint Laurent
In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous. — Elsa Schiaparelli
Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women. — Elsa Schiaparelli
I've always thought of accessories as the exclamation point of a woman's outfit. — Michael Kors
Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born. — Karl Lagerfeld
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance. — Coco Chanel
The dress is a vase which the body follows. My clothes are like modules in which bodies move. — Pierre Cardin
When I see beautiful clothes, I want to keep them, preserve them... Clothes, like architecture and art, reflect an era. — Azzedine Alaia
I want industrial design to be a public subject. I want people to love objects the way they love clothing. — Karim Rashid
The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off. — Jean Cocteau
I've always been quite thrifty. I can't bear to spend hundreds of pounds on designer clothes. I shop in second-hand shops in Portobello Road and go to Sue Ryder. — Ashley Jensen
The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her. — Mary Quant
Clothes are fun. The designers have so much fun making them, you should have fun wearing them, too. — Rita Ora
Fashion Icon Quotes
Elegance is the only beauty that never fades. — Audrey Hepburn
I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it. — Alexander McQueen
Anyone can get dressed up and glamorous, but it is how people dress in their days off that are the most intriguing. — Alexander Wang
What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language. — Miuccia Prada
Decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live. — Gianni Versace
People will stare. Make it worth their while. — Harry Winston
If you can't be better than your competition, just dress better. — Anna Wintour
I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth. — Karl Lagerfeld
A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika. — Dorothy Parker
Style is very personal. It has nothing to do with fashion. Fashion is over quickly. Style is forever. — Ralph Lauren
Designer Shoes Quotes
There is no limit to beauty, no saturation point in design, no end to the material. — Salvatore Ferragamo
When you sit down to design something, it can be anything, a car, a toaster, a house, a tall building or a shoe, what you draw or what you design is really a culmination of everything that you've seen and done in your life previous to that point. — Tinker Hatfield
A good shoe is one that doesn't dress you but undresses you. — Christian Louboutin
I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world. — Bette Midler
Not long ago, I said to one of our designers, ‘Why don’t you take a trip to Japan and see what the teenage girls are wearing on the streets at night?… I did not say to the designer, Go and see what kinds of shoes they are wearing and copy them.’ — Bernard Arnault
To wear dreams on one's feet is to begin to give reality to one's dreams. — Roger Vivier
There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes. — Manolo Blahnik
The secret of toe cleavage, a very important part of the sexuality of the shoe; you must only show the first two cracks. — Manolo Blahnik
Fashion is not necessarily about labels. It's not about brands. It's about something else that comes from within you. — Ralph Lauren
It is just as disastrous to have the wrong accessories in your room, as it is to wear sport shoes with an evening dress. — Dorothy Draper
Fashion Business Quotes
Remember this: No one is looking at your imperfections; they're all too busy worrying about their own. — Isaac Mizrahi
Both film and fashion are businesses where the audience doesn't feel or see the work that goes on behind the scenes. — Tom Ford
Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends. — Janice Dickinson
There is no such thing as 'on the way out' as long as you are still doing something interesting and good; you're in the business because you're breathing. — Louis Armstrong
I'm rather old-fashioned about this video business. It's all relatively new. We really don't do videos, Fleetwood Mac. We've only done two. — Christine McVie
I am especially grateful that I have been able to keep my own style over the decades, in spite of the many changes that have taken place in the world of fashion and in its business. — Valentino Garavani
Market values are fixed only in part by balance sheets and income statements; much more by the hopes and fears of humanity; by greed, ambition, acts of God, invention, financial stress and strain, weather, discovery, fashion and numberless other causes impossible to be listed without omission. — Gerald M. Loeb
I think that fashion has become such a big business and with globalization we are on new territory at this point. We are not just designing for a country we are designing for a world now. — Anna Sui
I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side. — Tommy Hilfiger
There is also a schedule to fashion - the deadline is always set. So maybe the fashion business is a good business for me in that way because I'm basically lazy, man. — Yohji Yamamoto
Passion For Fashion Quotes
The explosion of museum exhibitions is only a mirror image of what has happened to fashion itself this millennium. With the force of technology, instant images and global participation, fashion has developed from being a passion for a few to a fascination - and an entertainment - for everybody. — Alexander McQueen
Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your
languid spleen,
An attachment a la Plato for a bashful young potato, or a
not-too-French French bean! — W. S. Gilbert
Spin the parasol three times and repeat after me: I shield in the name of fashion. I accessorize for one and all. Pursuit of truth is my passion. This I vow by the great parasol. — Gail Carriger
It is not permitted to a man, who takes up pen or chisel, to seek originality, for passion is his only business, and he cannot but mould or sing after a new fashion because no disaster is like another. — William Butler Yeats
It is impossible to solve health problems of millions of people with the help of pills. People need to put it into practice, have passion for it; healthy lifestyle, fitness and sports should become fashionable. — Vladimir Putin
I was very sporty at school, and sport was probably the thing I was best at, but my real passion was for fashion. — Kirsty Gallacher
Sex is something I live very well, but it is something I revealed very slowly in my fashion. What I do is emotional. For me, there is a base, which is my Italian roots. It's a strong passion for fashion, a passion for sensuality and dressing for one's self. — Riccardo Tisci
For me, fashion is a job. I love it. It's my passion. But the most important thing for me in general is life. — Riccardo Tisci
I had an appreciation for clothes and style starting at a young age, my mom was always very fashionable and I loved playing dress up in her closet. So I think my passion for design was always there. — Charlotte Ronson
Fashion is a dream. It's difficult, and there are many aspects of fashion that are very difficult, but if you love it like I do, because I really have a passion, now, for fashion, it's not easy, but nothing is easy in life. — Carolina Herrera
Fashion Today Quotes
I say, dress to please yourself. Listen to your inner muse and take a chance. Wear something that says 'Here I am!' today. — Iris Apfel
I don't feel too excited about fashion today People just want cheap fast clothes and are happy to look like everyone else — Rei Kawakubo
I bought a pair of Birkenstocks today - let's be real. I wanted a chunky sandal that was functional. That should tell you where I am at as far as fashion. — Chloe Sevigny
Today, fashion is really about sensuality-how a woman feels on the inside. In the '80s women used suits with exaggerated shoulders and waists to make a strong impression. Women are now more comfortable with themselves and their bodies-they no longer feel the need to hide behind their clothes. — Donna Karan
Whoever we may be, whatever our immediate interest, however much we carry baggage from our past, however much we have been caught by the fashion of cynicism and loss of faith in the capacity of the people, let us err today and say - nothing can stop us now! — Thabo Mbeki
The difference between the girls today and models of the past is that we are not only interested in fashion: we are going in so many different directions at once. We work harder -- at night and on weekends. On the modeling profession — Claudia Schiffer
Call me a relic, call me what you will, say I'm old fashion, say I'm over the hill. Today's music ain't got the same soul, I like that old time rock and roll. — Bob Seger
Peter Kropotkin described Anarchism as the extreme left wing of socialism - a view with which I completely agree. One of my deepest concerns today is that the libertarian socialist core will be eroded by fashionable, post- modernist, spiritualist, mystic individualism. — Murray Bookchin
Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today. — Mary Quant
All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life. — Alberto Giacometti
The stiletto is a feminine weapon that men just don't have. — Christian Louboutin
The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design. — Massimo Vignelli
For me fashion is an expression of art that is very closely related both to me and to my body. I see it as an expression of identity combined with desire, moods and a cultural setting. — Iris van Herpen
Good design is long-lasting! It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated. — Dieter Rams
American style is about confidence, independence, diversity and free expression. — Tommy Hilfiger
Say goodbye to the age-old stereotypes of seduction. Seductive, but not a seductress, a woman wears a scent to reveal her personality. — Paco Rabanne
Take people's advice and guidance in the beginning, but always follow your instincts first — Alexander Wang
Seduction is about intelligence and wit. Someone who makes me laugh has every chance to seduce me. — Riccardo Tisci
I don’t like the collusion between high fashion design and high street. You have to know where you stand. I belong to luxury fashion. That’s what I’ve always felt and embraced. I like the best quality, the best fabrics and the most creative field in fashion. I will stay consistent. I belong to this world. — Hedi Slimane
Since I was a child, my whole life has revolved around music. It's often while listening to a song that ideas for my fashion collections formed. — Hedi Slimane
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