169 Fashion Industry Quotes

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Famous Fashion Industry Quotes

Fashion is such an octopus. You're connected to so many people: suppliers, pattern makers, production teams, marketing teams, vendors. — Raf Simons

Fashion is so over the top. — Ben Stiller

There are very few industries that I know of - I mean, there are companies in fashion, in cosmetics. — Jensen Huang

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality. — Karl Lagerfeld

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 should be stylish and fun. — Sayings

Fashion is self confident and fearless. - Alexander McQueen

Fashion is self confident and fearless. — Alexander McQueen

Just because you work in the fashion industry, it doesn't mean you live your life in fashion. — Phillip Lim

Fashion is instant language. — Miuccia Prada

Fashion embraces the weirdos. They're into that. There are always young people that people in fashion are interested in. You know, youth and vitality and energy - it brings something different. — Chloe Sevigny

Fashion is my passion, and I respect the creativity that you find in its different levels. — Max Azria

Fashion is about dreaming and making other people dream. — Donatella Versace

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

I'm not an elitist. I hate the fashion industry sometimes because it becomes so focused on the elite. — Nicola Formichetti

Both film and fashion are businesses where the audience doesn't feel or see the work that goes on behind the scenes. — Tom Ford

Short Fashion Industry Quotes

  • Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today. — Mary Quant
  • Paris dictates fashion to the whole world. — Maria Callas
  • I love clothes and fashion more than music — Roberto Cavalli
  • Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. — Coco Chanel
  • I’ve been working seriously in giving fashion a place that it deserves. — Diane Von Furstenberg
  • Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. — Oscar Wilde
  • Fashion goes round in circles. — Siobhan Fahey
  • Fashion has always been as big a part of my life as football has. — Paul Pogba
  • Everyday is a fashion show and the world is the runway — Coco Chanel
  • In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous. — Elsa Schiaparelli

Fashion Industry Image Quotes

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Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.

Fashion Quotes

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 your most intense obsessions mercilessly. — Franz Kafka

Fashion you can buy, but style you possess. The key to style is learning who you are, which takes years. There’s no how-to road map to style. It’s about self-expression and, above all, attitude. — Iris Apfel

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

Fashion industry quote Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to
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 say, dress to please yourself. Listen to your inner muse and take a chance. Wear something that says 'Here I am!' today. — Iris Apfel

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. — Pablo Picasso

Real elegance is everywhere, especially in the things that don't show. - Christian Dior

Real elegance is everywhere, especially in the things that don't show. — Christian Dior

You can reach timelessness if you look for the essence of things and not the appearance. The appearance is transitory — the appearance is fashion, the appearance is trendiness — but the essence is timeless. — Massimo Vignelli

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful. — Sophia Loren

Elegance is the only beauty that never fades. - Audrey Hepburn

Elegance is the only beauty that never fades. — Audrey Hepburn

I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men. — Marlene Dietrich

What Is Fashion Quotes

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

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

You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes. Too many women think that they are unimportant, but the real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet. — Christian Dior

The Ladybug wears no disguises. She is just what she advertises. A speckled spectacle of spring, A fashion statement on the wing.... A miniature orange kite. A tiny dot-to-dot delight. — J. Patrick Lewis

For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium. — Alexander McQueen

To me, clothing is a form of self-expression - there are hints about who you are in what you wear. — Marc Jacobs

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

That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live. — Gianni Versace

Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong. — Adriana Lima

Everybody has their own opinion and own ideas of what beauty is. - Rick Genest

Everybody has their own opinion and own ideas of what beauty is. — Rick Genest

Fashion Details Quotes

Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it. — Jean De La Bruyere

Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed. — Iggy Azalea

Like this. The wristbands you get at nightclubs next to all the bracelets? It's always the details that give me the ideas. It's fun to play with fashion because it is a fantasy. Each morning you dress to become a different woman. Fashion helps. — Carine Roitfeld

For theater, the fashion had to have a certain grandeur that would read on the stage while also flattering the actress. The same thing applies when doing a wedding dress, but the treatments can be more delicate and there can be much more detail. — Austin Scarlett

There is a reason cases are tried in a court of law, not in the court of the public and not by the media, because details have to come out in excruciating and minute fashion, detail by detail, bit of evidence by bit of evidence. — Angela Corey

Research is always a high priority in my fiction. Songs, fashion, politics, television, movies, trends - I try to get those details right. — Mitali Perkins

Don't start with the details. Start with the key ideas, and in a hierarchical fashion, form the details around these larger notions. — John Medina

Fans don't lie. They just tell you what they really think, and they see details that even people in fashion don't. — Nicola Formichetti

Putting on a beautifully designed suit elevates my spirit, extols my sense of self, and helps define me as a man to whom details matter. — Gay Talese

Fashion Wear Quotes

If you wear clothes that don't suit you, you're a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better. — Vivienne Westwood

Style is wearing an evening dress to McDonald's, wearing heels to play football. It is personality, confidence and seduction. — John Galliano

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

One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress. — Karl Lagerfeld

My daughter Delphine, she’s working at Dior. But she wears Celine. — Bernard Arnault

If your wearing lingerie that makes you feel glamorous, you're halfway thereto turning heads. — Elle Macpherson

How can you live the high life if you do not wear the high heels? — Sonia Rykiel

What you wear represents you to the world, especially now, when communication between people is so fast. Fashion is a universal language that everyone understands. — Miuccia Prada

I find my dress sense tends to be a bit of a mixture between high fashion and unique vintage pieces with a little bit of street trends. For example, I might find a really nice, suede dinner jacket that I'd wear with a basic plain white shirt and some chinos and a pair of Nike trainers. — Tinie Tempah

The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her. - Mary Quant

The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her. — Mary Quant

Fashion Business Quotes

Remember this: No one is looking at your imperfections; they're all too busy worrying about their own. — Isaac Mizrahi

Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends. - Janice Dickinson

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

You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work. — Ali MacGraw

Fashion World Quotes

Old-fashioned, Spirit-filled, Christ-honoring, sin-hating, soul-winning, Bible-preaching. It is the hope of the church. It is the hope of the nation. It is the hope of the world. — Jack Hyles

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women. - Elsa Schiaparelli

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women. — Elsa Schiaparelli

Stand up straight and look people in the eye. Two old-fashioned things that stand out and never go out of style. The way you carry yourself dramatically impacts how the world will engage with you. — Sahil Bloom

Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring - Mario Testino

Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring — Mario Testino

I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world. - Bette Midler

I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world. — Bette Midler

Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory. - Coco Chanel

Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory. — Coco Chanel

Life is a fashion show, the world is your runway. — Marc Jacobs

We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful: those in command of immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own image. — Nelson Mandela

I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen. — Eddie Redmayne

Ralph Lauren has always stood for providing quality products, creating worlds and inviting people to take part in our dream. We were the innovators of lifestyle advertisements that tell a story and the first to create stores that encourage customers to participate in that lifestyle. — Ralph Lauren

Fashion Today Quotes

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

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

Fashion is about today and tomorrow. Nobody cares how good you used to be — Paul Smith

I want women to really look like women from today. It's not from the past and not from the future, because I don't know what happens in the future. It is the woman of today (who) I think is a seductive woman. — Carolina Herrera

Fashion Week Quotes

New York Fashion Week comes only twice a year, make it count — Tommy Hilfiger

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after. — Wendell Phillips

One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week! — Zendaya

When I went to Fashion Week, I was very disappointed by how few women of color were in those shows. I do speak to the younger girls, and I hear them when they say they're not getting the big contracts or into the big shows. — Beverly Johnson

I stretch in the morning a lot and I do a lot of saunas and steam rooms during fashion week just to keep my blood flowing. — Gigi Hadid

London Fashion Week is so different from any of the others. Compared to the strictness in New York, London seems freer from commercial constraints. Truer to the process, to street style, to a sense of humour. — Alexa Chung

I hadn't really been in that world for too long. It was fun for me, but definitely wasn't my world. When I went to my first Paris Fashion Week, I had been invited to the Louis Vuitton show by Nicolas. We met there. It was all organic and fun for me. — Selena Gomez

I love Fall Fashion Week because it means lots of layering, long sweaters and vintage coats. — Rachel Zoe

You should always change at least three times a day during Fashion Week. — Selita Ebanks

At the end of the week, it's nice to just hang out in a pair of jeans and let my hair down. I need a break from all that fashion! — Sayings

Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are. — Gianni Versace

The hardest thing in fashion is not to be known for a logo, but to be known for a silhouette. — Giambattista Valli

Anyone can get dressed up and glamorous, but it is how people dress in their days off that are the most intriguing. — Alexander Wang

Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt. — Elsa Schiaparelli

My look is attainable. Women can look like Audrey Hepburn by flipping out their hair, buying the large sunglasses, and the little sleeveless dresses. — Audrey Hepburn

Decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live. — Gianni Versace

If you can't be better than your competition, just dress better. — Anna Wintour

Working in a salon, you look at trends all day long. You're looking at color all the time, what new products are coming out. You're a part of the fashion industry, especially if you're working in a higher-end salon. — Christian Siriano

Trendy is the last stage before tacky. — Karl Lagerfeld

I believe tattoos are a lifestyle not a fashion trend. — Machine Gun Kelly

Fashion Show Quotes

Karate is Budo and if Budo is removed from Karate it is nothing more than sport karate, show karate, or even fashion karate-the idea of training merely to be fashionable. — Mas Oyama

One does not invite a thousand guests to watch a procession of dresses which could be seen on a coat hanger or in a show room. — Bernard Arnault

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

I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green and had no idea what an undertaking it is. I also have a new respect for models because they are so close to the front row and must be so self-conscious. — Eddie Redmayne

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

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

Daily life shouldn't be a fashion show all the time. — Leighton Meester

I still believe in the old fashioned ways of showing a woman Respect and Honor!! — Angela Merkel

You see, you just don't know I'm here to give you my heart And you want some fashion show — Jim Carroll

If I see a fashion show with literal influences, it doesn't make me think any more. It doesn't make me dream. — Raf Simons

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More Fashion Industry Quotes

Shoes transform your body language and attitude. They lift you physically and emotionally. — Christian Louboutin

This is a very fashionable charge to bring against a company. This is one of the consequences, in this country, of being in the Internet industry. I think it's quite scandalous, they brought the weakest charges they had. — James Hunt

There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal. — Vera Wang

MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world. — Karlie Kloss

Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so. — Naomi Wolf

Sexy for me is a curvy woman - doesn't have to be skinny, which I hate anyway. I'm glad [the fashion industry] is changing slowly a little bit now to get more into the boobs and hips again. — Heidi Klum

Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women. — Naomi Wolf

It would be disrespectful to take my stardom and bully my way into the fashion industry. — ASAP Rocky

There's nothing wrong with the fashion industry. What's wrong is changing yourself for something you don't really care about just to get somewhere faster. — Anne Hathaway

I think fashion is repulsive. The whole idea that someone else can make clothing that is supposed to be in style and make other people look good is ridiculous. It sickens me to think that there is an industry that plays to the low self-esteem of the general public. I would like the fashion industry to collapse. — Steve Albini

Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it. — Naomi Wolf

I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology. — Robert Wyatt

When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera of the airbrushed centerfold, always receding before him, keeps the man destabilized in pursuit, unable to focus on the beauty of the woman--known, marked, lined, familiar—-who hands him the paper every morning. — Naomi Wolf

Sometimes I get it right and I sometimes I get it wrong. But fashion is all about having fun. I think fashion has been hijacked by the fashion industry creating rules on what one should wear and I feel like breaking the mold and seeing that the world won’t crumble. — Helena Bonham Carter

Sometimes in the fashion industry we come across some unfair rules, but no one is obliged to follow them. — Sonia Rykiel

The people who work in the fashion industry and the people who work in the film industry have a lot in common. They're very creative. Their eye is very aesthetic. — Gal Gadot

USAGE, n. The First Person of the literary Trinity, the Second and Third being Custom and Conventionality. Imbued with a decent reverence for this Holy Triad an industrious writer may hope to produce books that will live as long as the fashion. — Ambrose Bierce

The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance. — Naomi Wolf

I'm getting my respect as a video director. The fashion industry respects me and knows who I am. — ASAP Rocky

The fashion industry tends to attract people with serious personality defects. They just want to be rich and famous. But at some point you have to decide: Are you going to mindlessly go the easy way or are you going to go the ethical way? — Katharine Hamnett

You have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything. — Elle Macpherson

I never wanted to join fashion industry or being another Donna or another Dianne. I made clothes that I wanted to wear. I would cut, I would sew and I would wear, and it made me to feel better. — Betsey Johnson

The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her "beauty. — Naomi Wolf

[Donald] Trump said she [Melania Trump] first arrived in New York City to model in 1996. But Michael Felix, an immigration attorney who specializes in the fashion industry, says if you're a foreign model with a work visa, it's unusual to have to return to your home country that frequently. — Hansi Lo Wang

It is very, very, very difficult for an American actor who wants a film career to be open about his sexuality. And even more difficult for a woman if she's lesbian. It`s very distressing to me that that should be the case. The film industry is very old fashioned in California. — Ian Mckellen

I can't think of anything that isn't cloud computing with all of these announcements. The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? — Larry Ellison

Anna Wintour is the most powerful woman in the global fashion industry, the first lady of fashion. She's a politician; I'm a stylist. They are two very different jobs. — Carine Roitfeld

The maturing of a woman who has continued to grow is a beautiful thing to behold. Or, if your ad revenue or your seven-figure salary or your privileged sexual status depend on it, it is an operable condition. — Naomi Wolf

Plastic surgery is distressingly popular and I feel that the fashion industry has killed tens of thousands of women over the years from anorexia. — Nan Goldin

No one knows anything about the fashion industry in Brazil. They don't care what you do. They just want the beach and the sun and the fun. I feel the freest and the happiest there. — Candice Swanepoel

The fashion industry has an enormous amount to offer in what we do in industrial design because fashion is fast, fashion has its finger on the pulse. There are very few creative industries that work on that rhythm. — Marc Newson

Fashion is an industry to make money. It plays into human psychology. We want to belong, we want to be loved. I'm not trying to demonize the fashion industry - I love the fashion industry - but style is about taking the control out of the industry's hand and having you decide what works for you. — Stacy London

The fashion industry isn't merely content to encase my meaty flanks in skintight denim. Oh, no! That denim also has to be white, a color that attracts ketchup, wine, garlic aioli, and any other foodstuffs I might otherwise be able to enjoy if I wasn't wearing ridiculously tight pants. — Diablo Cody

The crude product of nature, the object fashioned by the industry of man, acquire their reality, their identity, only to the extent of their participation in a transcendent reality. — Mircea Eliade

The fashion industry [is] built on, and thrives on, our collective insecurity. — Stacy London

“Healthy" and “diseased," as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purposes. Women have long been defined as sick as a means of subjecting them to social control. — Naomi Wolf

For some reason, everyone says "fashion is responsible for skinny models." I don't believe that myself. I believe consumers dictate commercial success and trends in a capitalistic society. So I believe if consumers wanted to see - like, who decided that Barney the Dinosaur was going to be a million-dollar industry? — Kelly Cutrone

I've always had an interest in the fashion industry. Fashion advertising and lifestyle branding has always been intriguing and provocative to me. It's not just clothing or style that I had interest in, it was more the marketing side of things that I had intrigue in. — Ashley Purdy

Every time somebody makes an Indian movie...Cher on a horse with a headdress and a miniskirt...the fashion industry cashes in. — Buffy Sainte-Marie

The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion. Maybe I'm an idiot, but I have no idea what anyone is talking about. What is it? It's complete gibberish. It's insane. When is this idiocy going to stop? — Larry Ellison

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