Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anna Wintour

It's important for young women and men coming out of the fashion schools to think seriously before starting their own collections.

Anna Wintour

I'm an ice queen, I'm the Sun King, I'm an alien fleeing from District 9 and I'm a dominatrix. So I reckon that makes me a lukewarm royalty with a whip from outer space.

Anna Wintour

I think what I often see is that people are frightened about fashion. Because it scares them or makes them feel insecure, so they just put it down. On the whole people that may say the mean things about our world I think that’s usually because they feel, in some ways, excluded or, you know, not a part of ‘the cool group’ so as a result they just mock it.

Anna Wintour

We are devastated to learn of the death of Alexander McQueen, one of the greatest talents of his generation. He brought a uniquely British sense of daring and aesthetic fearlessness to the global stage of fashion. In such a short career, Alexander McQueen's influence was astonishing - from street style, to music culture and the world's museums. His passing marks an insurmountable loss.

Anna Wintour

[The democratization of luxury] means more people are going to get better fashion. And the more people who can have fashion, the better.

Anna Wintour

Fashion's not about looking back. It's always about looking forward.

Anna Wintour

People constantly make the mistake of comparing London with New York, Milan and Paris and that's not what it's about. London has its own fashion identity. You come here to find the next Alexander McQueen or John Galliano.

Anna Wintour

Fashion goes in only one direction -forward- and I am a firm believer in thinking that way too.

Anna Wintour

Even if I'm completely unsure, I'll pretend I know exactly what I'm talking about and make a decision.

Anna Wintour

You either know fashion or you don't.

Anna Wintour

There is something about fashion that can make people really nervous.

Anna Wintour

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

Anna Wintour

It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten.

Anna Wintour

If you look at any great fashion photograph out of context, it will tell you just as much about what's going on in the world as a headline in The New York Times.

Angus Young

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.'

Allen Tate

Men expect too much, do too little, Put the contraption before the accomplishment, Lack skill of the interior mind To fashion dignity with shapes of air. Luxury, yes but not elegance!

Allegra Versace

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!

Alistair Maclean

Bowman turned his back on her and began to search the place methodically and exhaustively. When one searches any place, be it a gypsy caravan or a baronial mansion, methodically and exhaustively, one has to wreck it completely in the process.So, in a orderly and systematic fashion, Bowman set about reducing Czerda's caravan to a total ruin.

Alison Lurie

The fashion industry is no more able to preserve a style that men and women have decided to abandon than to introduce one they do not choose to accept.

Alison Lurie

Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world

Ann Landers

Women who are devoted to causes, such as overpopulation and the underprivileged [sic], are much less interested in fashion than, let's say, those who lunch at La Grenouille and Le Cirque.

Ann Brashares

As the three of them walked home from the trees, nobody needed to say it, but Ama knew. They had questioned their friendship. They had searched and wondered, looking for a sign. And all along they'd had their trees. You couldn't wear them. You couldn't pass them around. They offered no fashion advantage. But they had roots. They lived.

Andrea Dworkin

Women's fashion is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.

Fashion is always uncomfortable. When you get comfortable, you never get the look.

I've always had an interest in the fashion side of pop culture.

Gloria Estefan

Fashion is nice, but it's for the fans. If it were up to me, I'd be in a sweat suit!

Henry Fielding

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Derek Blasberg

One of the perks of my job as a fashion journalist is the travel opportunity.

Iggy Azalea

I never feel with the fashion stuff that it's too fake. If I was a model and had a working part in Fashion Week, then I might feel like that, but I'm just a visitor. I really only walk in and watch the shows and think, 'Maybe I could wear that in a video.' I meet the designer, say hello, and then I go.

Adam Lambert

The only lifestyle I'm promoting is the lifestyle of love and friendship. The lifestyle of music, and joy, and fashion. So whoever wants to come and get part of that lifestyle, we accept anybody.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.

Abraham Maslow

Even when adults do feel their safety to be threatened, we may not be able to see this on the surface. Infants will react in a fashion as if they were endangered, if they are disturbed or dropped suddenly, startled by loud noises, flashing light

Alessandro Nivola

I've never felt that I've had some great fashion sense of my own - I tend to wear what my wife tells me to wear.