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"So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft: With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten."
"We all need a splash of bad taste. No taste is what I am against."
"I believe when your children are born that you are reborn in some fashion."
"Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality."
"To pull off any look, wear it with confidence."
"Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery."
"At the risk of repetition let me say again that my plea is not for immunity to, but for the most unsparing exposure of, the politician who betrays his trust, of the big business man who makes or spends his fortune in illegitimate or corrupt ways. There should be a resolute effort to hunt every such man out of the position he has disgraced. Expose the crime, and hunt down the criminal; but remember that even in the case of crime, if it is attacked in sensational, lurid, and untruthful fashion, the attack may do more damage to the public mind than the crime itself."
"People always ask me how I start a collection, and I tell them that I just look around. What am I tired of? What am I in the mood for? Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration."
"The environment you fashion out of your thoughts, your beliefs, your ideals, your philosophy is the only climate you will ever live in. The key is in not spending time, but in investing it."
"Dress for yourself and the man you love (if there is one). Women dressing to impress other women--forget about that. Forget about that. It's a very bad way of thinking."
"What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up."
"Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time."
"A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction."
"There's nothing interesting about looking perfect—you lose the point. You want what you're wearing to say something about you, about who you are."
"I love fashion from the 1930s and '40s - shoulder pads, high waists, things with structure. That is classy for me. Andrea Riseborough from the Madonna movie 'W.E.' had an amazing wardrobe."
"A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion"
"Chanel is above all a style. Fashion passes, style remains."
"Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!"
"Good clothes open all doors."
"You must always remember, the most important fashion accessory is the condom."
