Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cristobal Balenciaga

Elegance is elimination.

Danny Masterson

I really like fashion, but I'm not a fashionista by any means.

David Bailey

The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn't support yourself as an 'artist' - I hate that word. The only way you could be 'arty' was as a fashion photographer, because it still had a certain amount of integrity involved.

Donatella Versace

Fashion is not frivolous.

Donatella Versace

I understand that the rule of fashion is to change, even as a successful designer - you do not want to be stuck in the same rut.

Donatella Versace

I was a fashion addict by the time I was 11 years old. I'd wear a miniskirt and patent-leather boots.

Donatella Versace

Alexander McQueen... The fashion world has not only lost an icon but we have also lost a very special friend.

Donatella Versace

I don't see anybody categorized as a 'fashion diva,' except for me! And I like that. I am thought of as a diva because I wear an evening dress and I take care of my look when I go out. I go to parties regarding business, not for fun. And that's why they call me a 'diva.'

Donatella Versace

New York is full of creative people, not only in fashion.

Donatella Versace

The three biggest fashion mistakes are cheap suits, shoes, and shirts. Spend your money on something good.

Donatella Versace

In fashion, women have more sensitivity, more sense of the body, so they know how things fit and feel. Yet there are not many women who study fashion. It's ridiculous.

Donatella Versace

I'm a designer, and I work very hard at that. People sometimes want to put down fashion by saying it's frivolous or superficial, but it's not that way at all. It's actually very hard work.

Donatella Versace

Some say the economy means that you have to persuade people to invest in clothes - to buy less things but more expensive things. I disagree - invest in jewelry, or a house, maybe, but not in fashion.

Donatella Versace

For me, music gives a voice to fashion.

Donatella Versace

Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.

Donatella Versace

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

Donatella Versace

Fashion needs fresh blood, and London is the most creative place for that.

Donatella Versace

You can never forget the time you are living in because the past is the past and it will never come back. So to adjust your philosophy and creativity in fashion to the time you’re living in is the most important thing.

Donatella Versace

I don't like balance. Balance is not a word you can use in Versace fashion.

Donatella Versace

Feminism is dead in the world. It comes from another time. I'm a feminist. I want to fight, but I don't see many people with this desire to fight for something. Women don't help each other, especially in fashion.

Donatella Versace

Fashion is a weapon that you can use when you need it.

Donatella Versace

Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas.

Donatella Versace

What is comfortable fashion? To be comfortable, that can't be in the vocabulary of fashion. If you want to be comfortable, stay home in your pajamas.

Dylan Lauren

When I started Dylan's Candy Bar in 2001, I wanted it to be a place that merged my love of pop culture, fashion, art and music with candy. Since then, we have been fortunate to pioneer artistic partnerships with many legends.

Dylan O'Brien

I never have an opinion about clothes and know nothing about fashion.

Dorothea Dix

[To a woman who claimed she'd rather be dead than unconfined and unfashionable:] My dear, if you continue to lace as tightly as you do now, you will not long have the privilege of choice. You will be both dead and out of fashion.

Constance Jablonski

I have a huge breakfast every morning because I never know if I'll have time for lunch, especially during Fashion Week. It keeps my mood positive all day. And my parents taught me to have tons of fruit and vegetables, which I think helps my skin.

Constantin Brancusi

I do not aspire to be in fashion. For what is in fashion, goes out of fashion If, on the contrary, your work is contested today, it doesn't matter. For when it is finally understood, it will be for eternity.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Our students wanted to know everything: but only the newest theory seemed to them worth bothering with. Knowing nothing of the intellectual achievements of the past, they kept fresh and intact their enthusiasm for 'the latest thing'. Fashion dominated their interest: they valued ideas not for themselves but for the prestige that they could wring from them.

Daniel Pipes

To me, every fundamentalist Muslim, no matter how peaceable in his own behavior, is part of a murderous movement and is thus, in some fashion, a foot soldier in the war that bin Laden has launched against civilization.

Daniel Craig

I can't really dress rock 'n' roll any more because I'm the wrong side of 40, but I want that to be the fashion.

Damien Hirst

I just hope that I can be kind of like the Beatles. I really like that kind of model. I like the way that without losing integrity they could change through fashion and not look back at the '60s and vomit when they saw what they'd done.

Countee Cullen

Quaint, outlandish heathen gods Black men fashion out of rods