Models now need to promote themselves, think like businesswomen and diversify their careers by doing other things. Chances are very slim that a mere model will become a household name today. — Tyra Banks
Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. — Coco Chanel
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
I don’t want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model. — Queen Latifah
Everyday is a fashion show and the world is the runway — Coco Chanel
The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her. — Mary Quant
Fashion is about dreaming and making other people dream. — Donatella Versace
Life is a fashion show, the world is your runway. — Marc Jacobs
Because I'm on the runway with some of the best models in the industry. — Heidi Klum
Short Fashion Model Quotes
Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role. — Yves Saint Laurent
Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality. — Karl Lagerfeld
Fashion is instant language. — Miuccia Prada
Just because you work in the fashion industry, it doesn't mean you live your life in fashion. — Phillip Lim
I love clothes and fashion more than music — Roberto Cavalli
Paris dictates fashion to the whole world. — Maria Callas
Beauty's easy. Modeling is not just about being pretty. — Tyra Banks
Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today. — Mary Quant
Fashion is what you're offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose. — Lauren Hutton
Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess. — Edna Woolman Chase
Fashion Model Image Quotes
Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
Fashion Photography Quotes
Very often I say to myself: I would like to make a photo where nothing happens. But in order to eliminate, there has to be something to begin with. For nothing to happen, something has to happen first. — Sarah Moon
Put on a sweater and really great sneakers with a big scarf, and you’ll look so stylish. For me, they are an everyday essential. — Meghan Markle
For me, fashion is one of the biggest changes. I never got to wear Chanel or anything like that, growing up, or really experience fashion the way I get to now. — Sadie Sink
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.
Since I was a little girl, I have always been interested in make-up and fashion. — Lisa Manoban
I think that’s what’s so fun about fashion: that I don’t have to be defined by one particular style. It’s whatever I’m feeling that day. — Sadie Sink
I’ve always kind of had this interest in fashion. — Sadie Sink
What I find interesting is working in a society with certain taboos and fashion photography is about that kind of society. To have taboos, then to get around them that is interesting. — Helmut Newton
I love fashion, and I simply enjoy good design in clothes and regard that as one of my hobbies. — Martha C. Nussbaum
I’ve been working seriously in giving fashion a place that it deserves. — Diane Von Furstenberg
I'm not a social person. Not that I'm not at ease. I'm pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It's not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that's all. — Karl Lagerfeld
Supermodel Quotes
All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like women too. — Miranda Kerr
Because a rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. — Miranda Kerr
I'm not the average girl from your video and I ain't built like a supermodel but I learned to love myself unconditionally because i am a queen — India.Arie
A jump shot can get you a shoe deal, a big house, a supermodel, fancy cars, a bunch of yes men, a Swiss bank account. But none of these things can get you a jump shot — Allen Iverson
I'm single, so I'm trying to do an overall overhaul. The look I'm going for is very '80s supermodel. It's time to be sexy. — Chloe Sevigny
Because I was the first super-elite, the press caught on and started calling me a supermodel. So in that sense, I guess I'm the first. But, in my opinion, there were girls that could have been called supermodels before that, if the term was in existence. — Carol Alt
I think to be a supermodel you first had to be a model, and I think people are jumping and missing that stage. — Kim Alexis
I was the first f****** hippy to enter this business, you know... I was one of the first girls to say I don't give a f*** about this whole supermodel thing. — Helena Christensen
I would be happy not even being a supermodel. Being able to get a taste of everything that I want a taste of makes me happy. — Summer Altice
In my day, I, being the first supermodel, I hawked everything. — Janice Dickinson
Fashion Show Quotes
Real elegance is everywhere, especially in the things that don't show. — Christian Dior
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
Male Model Quotes
The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My uncle was in the Marine Corps. Both of my grandfathers served in WWII. There weren't any career soldiers in my family, but when I was young it seemed like a way of arriving at adulthood. — Kevin Powers
I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic which is about two male models coming to a casting call. — Austin Peck
Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male. — Geoffrey Canada
Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is modeled on male-over-female domination. — Andrea Dworkin
But I think role models also start in the home with your parents. — Dominique Wilkins
We have to have positive male role models. — Donald Miller
The current male-dominated model of success - which equates success with burnout, sleep deprivation, and driving yourself into the ground - isn't working for women, and it's not working for men, either. — Arianna Huffington
Anyone who's seen the Wigan [League] players stripped has been faced with the raw truth of the matter... No time for male modelling, and even Princess Di would think twice about getting too close to that lot. — Colin Welland
When you're in a broken family and your role model is a violent male, boys grow up believing that's the way they're supposed to act. And girls think that's an accepted way men will treat them. — Jim Costa
I used to live with Teri Toye in the '80s - a really gorgeous transsexual. She won Girl of the Year in 1986 [I think] as a Chanel model and she introduced this whole way of slinky, slow-motion modeling. It was amazing that the girl of the year was actually born male. — Nan Goldin
Fashion Designer Quotes
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
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
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
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
Fashion World Quotes
Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful. — Sophia Loren
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
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
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
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
I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world. — Bette Midler
How can you live the high life if you do not wear the high heels? — Sonia Rykiel
Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory. — Coco Chanel
Fashion Icon Quotes
Elegance is the only beauty that never fades. — Audrey Hepburn
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
In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous. — Elsa Schiaparelli
Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants. — Karl Lagerfeld
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
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
Love Fashion Quotes
As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them. — Henry Ward Beecher
I had no interest in fashion when I was younger. I was such a tomboy. I loved soccer, as you call it, or sports in general. The first time I was a bridesmaid, to my auntie, I refused to go down the aisle without my football shorts underneath my dress. — Cara Delevingne
True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds -- a handful of stars tossed into the night sky. — Jim Bishop
My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that? — Bob Hope
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. — Tinie Tempah
Fashion is only complete when it is worn by ordinary people who exist now, managing their lives, loving and grieving. — Yohji Yamamoto
I’m definitely a girly-girl and I love playing with fashion, but at the same time I will go skydiving with you tomorrow. — Shay Mitchell
Will you love me in December as you do in May,
Will you love me in the good old fashioned way?
When my hair has all turned gray,
Will you kiss me then and say,
That you love me in December as you do in May? — Jimmy Walker
In terms of fashion, I love adding a fun scarf to whatever I'm wearing - it's a great way to dress up a plain outfit! — Bridgit Mendler
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
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me. — Maya Angelou
One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress. — Karl Lagerfeld
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
Every guitarist I would cross paths with would tell me that I should have a flashy guitar, whatever the latest fashion model was, and I used to say, 'Why? Mine works, doesn't it? It's a piece of wood and six strings, and it works.' — Angus Young
Fashion is not necessarily about labels. It's not about brands. It's about something else that comes from within you. — Ralph Lauren
Don't follow it blindly into every dark alley. Always remember that you are not a model or a mannequin for which the fashion is created. — Marlene Dietrich
Fashion as a whole is a farce, completely. The people behind it are perverted, the styles are created by freaked out people, just natural weirdos. I know this because I worked with all those people while I was modeling. — Edie Sedgwick
A democracy is predicated on an educated citizenry. You cannot have a democracy with people that are more interested in what Nicole Kidman is doing or whoever the latest fashion model is. — Hamza Yusuf
A good model can advance fashion by ten years. — Yves Saint Laurent
Since I was 8 months old, till I was 12, I did commercials and ads and cute little stuff for kids. Then I had braces on my teeth. They took them off when I was 16, and then I started modeling more seriously and doing more fashion. — Bar Refaeli
These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women. — Karl Lagerfeld
My goal is to be a household name, and when I do that, I want to help other girls become models, and maybe even launch a fashion line with my mom, like Beyonce did with her mother. My mom has such a good eye, and it's always been a dream of hers. — Chanel Iman
[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
I've learned a lot about fashion through modeling, but you know what they say, mother knows best. She used to tell me, "Your shoes, bags and belt better match before you walk out the door." I love her, but I don't necessarily agree with that advice anymore! — Ashley Graham
The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates. — Dave Barry
My mom modeled and made clothes, so I always had such an appreciation for design. And then Gossip Girl completely blew open the door to fashion for me. — Blake Lively
Fashion is entertainment. That's why these top models are so fascinating to kids. — Carrie Donovan
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 love, love, love fashion so much. That's why I became a model in the first place. — Linda Evangelista
He'd changed since the last summer. Instead of Bermuda shorts and a T-shirt, he wore a button-down shirt, khaki pants, and leather loafers. His sandy hair, which used to be so unruly, was now clipped short. He look like an evil male model, showing off what the fashionable college-age villain was wearing to Harvard this year. — Rick Riordan
Fashion doesn't look good only on models, it can look good on different people of different ages and different body shapes. — Alber Elbaz
The models have always been the least interesting thing about fashion. — Cindy Sherman
One of the things I noticed when I worked at Vibe was that backstage at a fashion show, they always referred to the black models as "black girls." I thought, "They never say 'white girls.' — Hilton Als
I think it's every girl's dream, a little bit, to be a model because it seems from the outside to be a glamorous industry and I was really into fashion, and I remember just being excited and wanting to be part of that. — Alexa Chung
When I fell into modeling, because I wanted to work in fashion. I wanted to do styling or make-up. I ended getting picked up to be a model instead during my work experience. — Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary. — Dave Barry
There's a really brilliant photographer who's deceased who in my sort of fashion and modelling days, I was fortunate enough to get to work with before he passed away, but Richard Avedon was utterly genius and creatively brilliant. — Gabriel Mann
[There is] a breed of fashion models — Dave Barry
Basically, I didnt know anything about fashion. I was very nerdy; I went to Bryn Mawr and never even noticed models when I was 21. — Fatima Siad
My Weimaraners are perfect fashion models. Their elegant, slinky forms are covered in gray - and gray, everyone knows, goes with anything. — William Wegman
Modeling is being a ho, but making it fashion. — Tyra Banks
There are a lot of aspiring singers who are not paid attention to because they don't look like a fashion model. — Linda Ronstadt
I also want to get out there in the world and do some acting and fashion and modeling. — Nastia Liukin
Women should feel happy with their bodies and not live with the stigma that comes from not looking like models in fashion magazines. — Shakira
Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know. — Fatima Siad
I think it's important that there is a change, especially in fashion. I'm pleased to be part of a 'new breed' of models who perhaps don't exactly fit the status quo. — Devon Aoki
Fashion is entertainment. That's why these top models are so fascinating to kids. They're dying to know about Naomi and Christy, or whoever we've declared the new one this afternoon. — Carrie Donovan
I have no interest whatsoever in being a high-fashion model, nor is it possible. — Rachael Leigh Cook
Now that I'm in the modeling industry, I'm taking reading magazines seriously. I read the Vogue magazines. I make it my homework. I try to study the designers and the stylists when I have time, because I wasn't brought up in a household where I was surrounded by fashion. — Malaika Firth
Color is very important in my work. That comes from style. My mother was a fashion model and an interior decorator, so that was me imitating her. My closest friend's mother was the same way, and her taste rubbed off on me, too. It's a domino effect of taste permeating through people. — Tina Barney
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