"Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue."
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"Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes."
"You're never too old to play. You're only too old for low-rise jeans."
"Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art."
"Elegance is refusal."
"Fashion is in the sky, in the street."
"Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live under its foolish laws, the wise man is never the first to follow, nor the last to keep it."
"There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion."
"The consumption of animals - whether you're wearing them or eating them - is extraordinarily damaging to the planet. There are over a billion animals killed a year for food, half of which don't even get eaten. And there's over 50 million animals killed just for fashion."
"And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time."
"To reinvent a newly impeccable you in the most modern of outfits, don't skip on makeup and be sure to have flawless skin and hair. That will have more impact than expensive clothes."
"It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned."
"Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character."
"Balenciaga often said that women did not have to be perfect or beautiful to wear his clothes. When they wore his clothes, they became beautiful."
"Unshined shoes are the end of civilization."
"Fashion, after all, is magic and miracle…intended to bestow proportion and beauty where both have been lost or faded with the years."
"No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love."
"I've never been in love with fashion, actually; trends and catwalks don't interest me. I love clothes; I love them historically and currently. They represent a spirit of the times and the zeitgeist."
"I'm not a social person. Not that I'm not at ease. I'm pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It's not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that's all."
"Bean, what's one step worse then a fashion don't?....a fashion don't even THINK about it."