Famous Quotes & Sayings

Catherine Malandrino

I knew from my youngest age I wanted to be a fashion designer. I was always draping fabric and working with color palettes.

Carson Kressley

I love fashion, but it's always been my job, whereas horseriding is my hobby.

Carla Bruni

When I was having my hair and make-up done backstage at a fashion show, I would sneak in a copy of Dostoevsky and read it inside a copy of Elle or Vogue. But it would be pretentious of me to say I was more intelligent than the other supermodels.

Al Gore

Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource.

In fashion even what seems most fragile must be built on cement.

I spent my life making fashion an art form.

Fashion, after all, is magic and miracle…intended to bestow proportion and beauty where both have been lost or faded with the years.

Charles Churchill

Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.

Charles Darwin

When primeval man first used flint stones for any purpose, he would have accidentally splintered them, and would then have used the sharp fragments. From this step it would be a small one to break the flints on purpose and not a very wide step to fashion them rudely.

Bonnie Tyler

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.

Bonnie Wright

It is extremely important to me that the social and environmental issues associated with the production of fashion clothing are addressed.

Bonnie Wright

I've always been very interested in fashion, but it is extremely important to me that the social and environment issues associated with the production of fashionable clothing are addressed. Made-By carries out really important work in transforming the fashion industry, and I am thrilled to support the organisation and help raise awareness of these ongoing issues.

Bonnie Wright

I'm really not for famous people who design a line for a company, when you know it's not really them creating it but a team of designers, especially when there are so many talented people who've taken the time to go and study fashion.

Bonnie McKee

I'm a really visual artist, and I love writing treatments for music videos, photo shoots, fashion, and all the visual parts that go along with making an album.

Arthur Smith

Obviously I am not bothered about men's fashion - is anyone, apart from Jonathan Ross?

Anton Yelchin

When you don't understand the fashion world you're just grateful you get to wear good clothes.

Aphra Behn

Women in London are like the rich silks; they are out of fashion a great while before they wear out.

Edmund Clarence Stedman

Science has but one fashion-to lose nothing once gained.

Edmund Clarence Stedman

Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.

Edmund Spenser

But angels come to lead frail minds to rest in chaste desires, on heavenly beauty bound. You frame my thoughts, and fashion me within; you stop my tongue, and teach my heart to speak.

Edmund Spenser

The paynefull smith, with force of fervent heat, The hardest yron soone doth mollify, That with his heavy sledge he can it beat, And fashion it to what he it list apply.

Edmund Burke

A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion.

I got involved in fashion by accident. When I got to New York, my intention was to have enough money to eat and to stay and I don't have to leave. I just loved New York - the energy, the culture, the freedom.

Edward Sapir

Fashion is custom in the guise of departure from custom

Edward Sapir

Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Freud's translator accidentally omitted 'fashion' in the psychoanalytic list of primary instinctual drives; along with the drive to sexuality there is the drive to wear odd garments that may cut off circulation, occlude vision, make toes grow sideways, cause riots.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Though fairy tales end after ten pages, our lives do not. We are multi-volume sets. In our lives, even though one episode amounts to a crash and burn, there is always another episode awaiting us and then another. There are always more opportunities to get it right, to fashion our lives in the ways we deserve to have them. Don't waste your time hating a failure. Failure is a greater teacher than success.

Dwight Howard

You always have to keep up with the trends. The biggest thing is making your own trend and making your own stamp in the fashion industry. Whatever is going to be your style, make that your style and go from there.

Dwyane Wade

Fashion's about taking chances, it's about taking risks, and just doing it the way you feel comfortable doing it. If you do that, people will respect it more.

Dwyane Wade

I've been blessed to be one of those guys who's looked at as a fashion-forward type of guy.

Dwyane Wade

Fashion is more than just how many colors and patterns you can put on at once. Being a great dresser is not necessarily about the colors you put on. It's about putting things together in the right way and then trying different things.

Courtney Love

Own what you are, and I mean whether that's art, or whether that's fashion, or whether that's music, or whether that's acting, or whether that's politics, or whether that's literature; it's own what you are, and grab it, and, you know, be as prolific as possible.

Alber Elbaz

Fashion is like life. It needs fear and uncertainty if you are to move forward.