If people want to change, they will. If they don't want to, it's hard to make them do so. The current interest in the environment is a good thing. The best way to make a contribution in fashion is to promote the idea that a fundamental interest in preserving the environment is itself fashionable.
Giorgio Armani - Fashion - Change - Environment - Influence
In the end, the customer doesn't know, or care, if you are small or large as an organisation.. she or he only focuses on the garment hanging on the rail in the store.
Giorgio Armani - Companies - Fashion - Customers - Clothes - Products
It is a fact that, in the West, we live in a capitalist society, but that does not mean that we cannot be guided by the idea of a social conscience in our work. Yes, fashion design requires consumers to consume, but we can do our bit for society by running our companies in a socially responsible way, and by creating products that promote respect for social and environmental issues. There is also the possibility for power and influence to be a force for change.
Giorgio Armani -
You have to have doubts. I have collaborators I work with. I listen and then I decide. That's how it works.
Giorgio Armani -
If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed.
Calvin Klein
People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.
Calvin Klein
Giorgio Armani - Fashion - Change - Environment - Influence
In the end, the customer doesn't know, or care, if you are small or large as an organisation.. she or he only focuses on the garment hanging on the rail in the store.
Giorgio Armani - Companies - Fashion - Customers - Clothes - Products
It is a fact that, in the West, we live in a capitalist society, but that does not mean that we cannot be guided by the idea of a social conscience in our work. Yes, fashion design requires consumers to consume, but we can do our bit for society by running our companies in a socially responsible way, and by creating products that promote respect for social and environmental issues. There is also the possibility for power and influence to be a force for change.
Giorgio Armani -
You have to have doubts. I have collaborators I work with. I listen and then I decide. That's how it works.
Giorgio Armani -
If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed.
Calvin Klein
People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.
Calvin Klein
The finest clothing made is a person's skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this. ~Mark Twain
Unmentionables - those articles of ladies' apparel that are never discussed in public, except in full-page, illustrated ads. ~Changing Times
A dress that zips up the back will bring a husband and wife together. ~James H. Boren
I base most of my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. ~Gilda Radner
If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.... It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it. ~Albert Einstein
People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile. ~Lee Mildon
It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. ~Henry David Thoreau
When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing. ~Lois McMaster Bujold
Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. ~Henry David Thoreau
I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes. ~Robert A. Heinlein
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Seldom do people discern
Eloquence under a threadbare cloak.~Juvenal
If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck? ~Linda Ellerbee
I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking. ~Lin Yutang
A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined. ~Anne Petry
I talk to him when I'm lonesome like; and I'm sure he understands. When he looks at me so attentively, and gently licks my hands; then he rubs his nose on my tailored clothes, but I never say naught thereat. For the good Lord knows I can buy more clothes, but never a friend like that. ~W. Dayton Wedgefarth
Just around the corner in every woman's mind - is a lovely dress, a wonderful suit, or entire costume which will make an enchanting new creature of her. ~Wilhela Cushman
A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you. ~Françoise Sagan
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that. ~Charles Dickens
When in doubt, wear red. ~Bill Blass
Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
What a strange power there is in clothing. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. ~Mark Twain
There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they would mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking. ~Virginia Woolf
A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloath'd at the same time. ~Laurence Sterne
Shopping tip: You can get shoes for 85 cents at the bowling alley. ~Author Unknown
O what a sight were Man, if his attires
Did alter with his minde;
And like a dolphins skinne, his clothes combin'd
And like a dolphins skinne, his clothes combin'd
With his desires! ~George Herbert
Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse. ~Will Rogers
Remember that always dressing in understated good taste is the same as playing dead. ~Susan Catherine
Funny that a pair of really nice shoes make us feel good in our heads - at the extreme opposite end of our bodies. ~Levende Waters
The only man who really needs a tail coat is a man with a hole in his trousers. ~John Taylor
Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on? ~P.G. Wodehouse
I simply can't understand
Why swimsuits are in such demand
They're soggy and damp,
Bind like a clamp,
And hold about three pounds of sand! ~D.R. Benson
Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear! ~Herman Melville
What do nudists wear on casual Fridays? ~Author Unknown
Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul. ~Quentin Bell
Stretch pants - the garment that made skiing a spectator sport. ~Author Unknown
Why is it considered seductive for women to wear beautiful clothes? Wouldn't it make more sense to wear something so ugly that a guy couldn't wait to take it off you? ~Flash Rosenberg
As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. ~John Ruskin
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims
Where's the man could ease a heart
Like a satin gown? ~Dorothy Parker, "The Satin Dress"
Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat. ~Sydney J. Harris
The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament.... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries. ~Thomas Carlyle
The dress must not hang on the body but follow its lines. It must accompany its wearer and when a woman smiles the dress must smile with her. ~Madeleine Vionnet
You have to have the kind of body that doesn't need a girdle in order to get to pose in one. ~Carolyn Kenmore
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. ~Jane Austen
• As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.
Tom Ford
• We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn’t we have a fashion designer as a senator?
Tom Ford
• I love to make fun of fashion because it is just so silly.
Kathy Griffin
• The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.
Matthew Hale
• History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion.
Eva Herzigova
• I admire people like Judd Nelson, who have an innate sense of fashion. Judd could wear a bathrobe and sanitarium sandals and a fedora and look good.
John Hughes
• And you know, the baby boomers are getting older, and those off the rack clothes are just not fitting right any longer, and so, tailor-made suits are coming back into fashion.
Amy Irving
• I think of many people and no one as a muse. I love the way Sofia looks always, and I love the way Kim looks always. Fashion may be part of their world, but it’s not their whole life. It’s not everything.
Marc Jacobs
• In fact, just before the revolution of 1789, fashion was also inspired by history.
Christian Lacroix
• Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
John Locke
• Fashion is never in crisis because clothes are always necessary.
Achille Maramotti
• I have fun with my clothes onstage; it’s not a concert you’re seeing, it’s a fashion show.
Freddie Mercury
• I’m not that interested in fashion… When someone says that lime-green is the new black for this season, you just want to tell them to get a life.
Bruce Oldfield
• Fashion, as we knew it, is over; people wear now exactly what they feel like wearing.
Mary Quant
• Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is more knowledgeable, and I have to be better every single day.
Oscar de la Renta
• Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
George Santayana
• I don’t know if it’s a movement, but the only thing new that’s happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown into one big ball that’s on television, and people see that all the time - you see a fusion of all those things.
Stephen Sprouse
• Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
Henri B. Stendhal
• Clothes are my passion and my knowledge. I’ve studied fashion from every angle-historically and critically, cerebrally and emotionally.
Vera Wang
• It’s hard to go with a trend. As soon as it’s out, everyone picks it up. It’s important to stay true to yourself. Have fun with fashion instead of letting it dictate.
Estella Warren
• There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
Geoffrey Chaucer
• A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
George Bernard Shaw
• Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Henry David Thoreau
• Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde
• What a deformed thief this fashion is.
William Shakespeare
• Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.
Gore Vidal
• Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other.
Denise Klahn
• In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson
• Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
Anthony Burgess
• If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.
Lord Chesterfield
• 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.
Jean Cocteau
• Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism: it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath — tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.
William Hazlitt
• The fear of becoming a ‘has-been’ keeps some people from becoming anything.
Eric Hoffer
• The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
William Shakespeare
• It is new fancy rathert than taste which produces so many new fashions.
Voltaire
• The difference between style and fashion is quality.
Giorgio Armani
• No designer has really wowed me yet, I’m into other people’s recommendations when it comes to fashion.
Shawn Ashmore
• Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
Francis Bacon
• Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh.
Geoffrey Beene
• Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs.
Geoffrey Beene
