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Fashion Quotes


"I have never gone out of fashion. And do you know why? Because I never sought it. When you don't seek it, it's always with you."


"Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture."


"The miniskirt enables young ladies to run faster, and because of it, they may have to."


"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together."


"I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked."


"A good model can advance fashion by ten years."


"If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion."


"That's how I taught myself how to draw - tracing the ads and petting new clothes on the models."


"When a popular phenomenon reaches the cover of 'Time,' it is already out of fashion."


"It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion."


"We can also cut by heat - heat punch. And we also can cut by cold - extreme cold. When you cut with heat, it makes a mark. With cold, no mark. It depends on the fabric."


"So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date."


"Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs."


"So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had."


"Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person."


"Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit."


"Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh."


"I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety."


"The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it."


"I'm always crunching numbers, so my calculator watch is a must."


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


"He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave."
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