Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elfriede Jelinek

Characters on stage should be flat, like clothes in a fashion show: what you get should be no more than what you see. Psychological realism is repulsive, because it allows us to escape unpalatable reality by taking shelter in the “luxuriousness” of personality, losing ourselves in the depth of individual character. The writer's task is to block this manoeuvre, to chase us off to a point from which we can view the horror with a dispassionate eye.

You like? You are happy? Yes? Okay, go! Go in the street.

Do I make fashion mistakes? Yes, but I won't say what.

David Bowie

In order to look special wearing the chancy unique; it must be worn with your persona, and if the two don't blend, then the look becomes pear-shaped.

David Bowie

They [people] mistake fashion for style.

David Nicholls

He's wearing his official university sweatshirt again, which puzzles me a little. I mean I'd sort of understand it more if it said Yale or Harvard or something, because then it would be a fashion choice. But why advertise the fact that you're at a university to all the other people who are at the university with you?

Gai Waterhouse

She travelled down well, ... And I'm over the moon by the way Fashions Afield has settled in.

Kevin Connolly

She's very big into fashion shows. That's what she does. This is a big week for her.

Marc Jacobs

She's really nice, a teen queen, a fashion enthusiast. She wears everything she likes.

Samuel Butler

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

Le Corbusier

To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state. It is necessary to understand history, and he who understands history knows how to find continuity between that which was, that which is, and that which will be.

We still get a lot done in a voluntary fashion.

Alexander Wang

When I decided to launch my first knitwear line, it was because I saw a void in the basics category. The editors were always looking for cool, fashion-forward tees and sweaters. So that's where I started.

Alexander Wang

I don't think fashion week will go back to what it used to be because people are realising that the industry is completely changing. It's not just in Bryant Park any more, people are figuring out who their audience is, where they want to show, they aren't really playing by the rules. It's not so much about these editors, these buyers.

Alexander Wang

I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper fashion business education.

Alexander Wang

There's a tendency to think that young designers only do fantasy fashion, but I'm more interested in making clothes that women can afford.

Alexander Wang

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

Ali Smith

Fashion is fickle, and I was published because I was fashionable. Because I was gay.

Alexander Lebedev

It seems to be in fashion among Russian politicians to blame Berezovsky for everything. Soon they'll be holding him responsible for global warming, earthquakes and tsunamis.

Adolf Hitler

The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness.

Adolf Hitler

If Providence had not guided us I would often never have found these dizzy paths. Thus, it is that we National Socialists have in the depths of our hearts our faith. No man can fashion world history or the history of peoples unless upon his purpose and his powers there rests the blessing of this Providence.

Anna Sui

Fashion should be fun and accessible.

Anna Sui

I love the fact that fashion always changes, and I hate the fact that it always changes.

Anna Sui

No one has ever found a solution for not doing a fashion show.

Anna Sui

I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.

Anna Sui

I’m always about optimism and exuberance. It’s what I feel about fashion.

Anna Sui

To me, fashion is like a mirror. It's a reflection of the times. And if it doesn't reflect the times, it's not fashion. Because people aren't gonna be wearing it.

Anna Wintour

Vogue' is the best of everything that fashion can offer, and I think we point the way. We are, you know, a glamorous girlfriend.

Anna Wintour

I saw young women in the street dressing in a way that I thought was influencing the designers. Fashion was being influenced by all sorts of different people, and culture and also across the street. So I saw more as a trickle up, than a trickle down influence. When I came to Vogue, that's what I wanted it to reflect.

Anna Wintour

They (fashion editors) have always been our secret weapon.

Anna Wintour

Fashion is a reflection of our times. Fashion can tell you everything that's going on in the world with a strong fashion image.

Anna Wintour

The notion that Anna would want something done "now" and not "shortly" is accurate.

Anna Wintour

I look for strong people. I don't like people who'll say yes to everything I might bring up. I want people who can argue and disagree and have a point of view that's reflected in the magazine. My dad believed in the cult of personality. He brought great writers and columnists to The Standard.