What Famous People Think of Fashion...

“I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes. I had one thousand and sixty.” Imelda Marcos “A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months.” Oscar Wilde “All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work.” Helena Rubinstein “A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.” Edith Head “About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.” Manolo Blahnik “When in doubt, wear red.” Bill Blass “I don't do fashion, I am fashion.” Coco Chanel “They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.” Ralph Waldo Emerson “A good model can advance fashion by ten years.” Yves Saint Laurent “I don't design clothes. I design dreams.” Ralph Lauren “A woman's dress should be like a barbed- wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.” Sophia Loren “Fashion is architecture. It is a matter of proportions.” Coco Chanel “The goal I seek is to have people refine their style through my clothing without having them become victims of fashion.” Giorgio Armani “Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside.” Alexander Pope “I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can't accept that it should originate there.” Coco Chanel “In difficult times fashion is always outrageous.” Elsa Schiaparelli “Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of the future, and should never be static.” Oleg Cassini “The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.” George Bernard Shaw “Fashion is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas.” Bruce Oldfield “Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.” Edwin Hubbel “I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.” Gilda Radner “Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman's jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with.” Karl Lagerfeld

“Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.” Jean Cocteau “Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.” Quentin Crisp “The dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress.” Hubert de Givenchy “Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.” George Santayana “Today, fashion is really about sensuality—how a woman feels on the inside. In the '80s women used suits with exaggerated shoulders and waists to make a strong impression. Women are now more comfortable with themselves and their bodies—they no longer feel the need to hide behind their clothes.” Donna Karan “Respect is love in plain clothes.” Frankie Byrne “Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.” Henry J. Kaiser “The lamb began to follow the wolf in sheep’s clothing.” Aesop “Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.” Ralph Waldo Emerson “She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on witha pitchfork. Jonathan Swift “When his wife asked him to change clothes to meet the German Ambassador: If they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits.” Albert Einstein “Clothes don’t make a man, but clothes have got many a man a good job.” Herbert Harold Vreeland “Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.” Anatole France “Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing." Dave Barry “While clothes may not make the woman, they certainly have a strong effect on her self-confidence — which, I believe, does make the woman." Mary Kay Ashe “The dress is a vase which the body follows. My clothes are like modules in which bodies move.” Pierre Cardin “I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.” Katharine Hepburn “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. Mark Twain “The expression a woman wears on her face is more important than the clothes she wears on her back.” Dale Carnegie