Fashion quotes
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"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."
"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly."
"No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that can be done is that one person who is more knowledgeable than another can, by asking a series of questions, stimulate the other to think, and so cause him to learn for himself."
"Simplicity, good taste and grooming are the three fundamentals of good dressing and these do not cost money."
"Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist."
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"Real elegance is everywhere, especially in the things that don't show."
"I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men."
"Elegance is the only beauty that never fades."
"What will be the judgment a century hence concerning the lorded works of our favorite composers today? Inasmuch as nearly everything is subject to the changes of time, and - more's the pity- the fashions of time, only that which is good and true will endure like a rock and no wanton hand will ever venture to defile it. Then, let every man do that which is right, strive with all his might towards the goal which can never be obtained, develop to the last breath the gifts with which the gracious Creator has endowed him, and never cease to learn. For life is short, art eternal."
"The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world."
"Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it."
"Brevity is the soul of lingerie."
"You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes. Too many women think that they are unimportant, but the real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet."
"Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can assume great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired greatness, became “geniuses” (as we put it), through qualities the lack of which no one who knew what they were would boast of: they all possessed that seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little, secondary things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole."
"A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting."
"Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping."
"Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman."
"There is no better designer than nature"
"Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment."
"I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes."
"Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest."
"I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it."
"Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal."
"You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life."
"True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul."
