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These are the quotes at the beginning of each chapter.
One:
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street; fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening. - Coco Chanel.
Two:
A fallen blossom returning to the bough, I thought - but no - a butterfly. - Arkadia Moritake.
Three:
Black and white signs are like familiar antipathies of the past - day and night, angel and devil, good and evil. - Vicktor Vasarley.
Four:
Disgraceful I know but I can't help choosing my underwear with a view to its being seen. - Barbara Pym, 1934.
Five:
I am blessed or cursed, depending on how you look at it, with an incurably restless spirit and the ability to work hard. - Salvatore Ferragamo.
Six:
What I do is about now. It's about the lives we lead. - Helmut Lang.
Seven:
I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules. - Vera Wang.
Eight:
Women are now more comfortable with themselves and their bodies - they no longer feel the need to hide behind their clothes. - Donna Karan.
Nine:
Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest. - Christian Dior.
Ten:
In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous. - Elsa Schiaparelli.
Eleven:
Fashion anticipates, an 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.
Twelve:
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. - Coco Chanel.
Thirteen:
When in doubt, wear red. - Bill Blass.
Fourteen:
We must never confuse elegance with snobbery. - Yves Saint Laurent.
Fifteen:
Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation... - Yves Saint Laurent.
Sixteen:
I love the T-shirt as an anti-status symbol, putting rich and poor on the same level in a sheath of white cotton that cancels the distinction of caste. - Giorgio Armani.
Seventeen:
Above all, remember that the most important thing you can take anywhere is not a Gucchi bag or French-cut jeans, it's an open mind. - Gail Ruben Bereny.
Eighteen:
The most courageous act is to still think for yourself. Aloud. - Coco Chanel.
Nineteen:
Success is often achieve by those who don't know that failure is inevitable. - Coco Chanel.
Twenty:
It's all about good taste. - Georgio Armani.
Twenty-One:
History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion. - Eva Herzigova.
Twenty-Two:
Fashions fade, style is eternal. - Yves Saint Laurent.
Twenty-Three:
In fact...fashion was also implied by history. - Christian Lacroix.
Twenty-Four:
Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken. - William Hazlitt.
Twenty-Five:
My role is that of a seducer. - John Galliano.
Twenty-Six:
A search for new values led to "Flower Power" and the Hippie movement, as well as interest in the occult... - Gerda Buxbaum.
Twenty-Seven:
Fashion does not reflect a nostalgia for the past but an eternal present that lies beyond the past. - Barbara Vinken.
Twenty-Eight:
I love old things. Modern things are so cold. I need things that have lived. - Barbara Hulanicki.
Twenty-Nine:
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. - Coco Chanel.
Thirty:
The creative universe begins with its essentiality, and, whatever path the imagination takes, ends with its purity. - Georgio Armani.
One:
I find it vital to have at least one handbag for each of the ten types of social occasions: Very Formal, Not So Formal, Just a Teeny Bit Formal, Informal But Not That Informal, Every Day, Every Other Day, Day Travel, Night Travel, Theatre, and Fling. - Miss Piggy.
Two:
Balanced emotions are crucial to intuitive decision making. - Donna Karan.
Three:
I've been strong and determined about many things in my life I've wanted. - Calvin Klein.
Four:
Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods. - Genevive Gorder.
Five:
I want to do my best to take care of the planet by designing with recycled and eco-friendly materials. I think we all have to start with what we know...I design clothing, so I figured I'd start there. - Deborah Lindquist.
Six:
For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very sould of what one is. - Christian Lacroix.
Seven:
I want to create theatre: clothes are theatre. - Jean Paul Galtier.
Eight:
Little black dresses first began to appear around 1918-1920 and I have the feeling they came out of the mouring look of World War I. - Karl Lagerfeld.
Nine:
You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of fashion. - Colley Cibber.
Ten:
The beggar wears all colors fearing none. - Charles Lamb.
Eleven:
I'm crazy and I don't pretend to be anything else. - Calvin Klein.
Twelve:
It always depends on how it's done - it mustn't be overly exhibinistic. - Georgio Armani.
Thirteen:
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. - Henry J. Kaiser.
Fourteen:
Every single item you put onto your body literally shouts our your unconscious dreams and desires to the entire world. - Cynthia Heimel.
Fifteen:
Fashion is as profound and critical a part of the social life of man as sex, and is made up of the same ambivalent mixture of irresistable urges and inevitable taboos. - Rene Konig.
Sixteen:
Elegance is fluid. It consists of desire and knowledge, grace, refinement, perfection, and distinction. - Rene Gruau.
Seventeen:
The intoxication obetained from wearing certain articles of clothing can be as powerful as that induced by a drug. - Bernard Rudofsky.
Eighteen:
I design to hit people at a gut level; to capture the soul and raw beauty of people and nature. - Linda Laudermilk.
Nineteen:
Everything in your closet should have an expiration date on it the way that milk and bread and magazines do. - Andy Warhol.
Twenty:
I have no desire to give lectures on the subject of fashion. I put my money on feelings. Wear it and enjoy it. - Gianni Versace.
Twenty-One:
I am always returning to one piece of cloth - a rectangle - because it is the elementary form in clothing. - Issy Myake.
Twenty-Two:
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than be. - Henry Fielding.
Twenty-Three:
Fashion, even anti-fashion, is forever. It's the only way we can become the characters we wish to be. - Christian Lacroix.
Twenty-Four:
What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about. - Diana Vreeland.
Twenty-Five:
It's all about proportion, shape, line, finish, fabric, balance. - Tom Ford.
Twenty-Six:
To be carried by shoes, winged by them. To wear dreams on one's feet is to begin to give reality to one's dreams. - Roger Vivier.
Twenty-Seven:
I'm not just selling clothes. I'm offering a world, a philosophy of life. - Ralph Lauren.
Twenty-Eight:
The only way to get forward in fashion is to return to construction. - John Galliano.
Twenty-Nine:
I have a kind of in-built clock which always reacts against anything Orthodox. - Vivienne Westwood.
Thirty:
Just like the silhouette of a car needs to be changed periodically so as to not lose its power of attraction, in the western world, the female body is also reshaped from time to time. - Bernard Rudofsky.
Thirty-One:
My vision: A nymph, who, in her heart of hearts, is a leopardess. - John Guilliano.
Thirty-Two:
The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it. - Diana Vreeland.
Thirty-Three:
1972: The first woman falls off her cork sandals. The rest follow. - Vogue.
Thirty-Four:
I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can't accept that it would originate there. - Coco Chanel.
Thirty-Five:
Sometimes, there are two very opposite directions, and we go with the stronger one at the end. It's an implse thing, like, 'Oh, I love both so much, but it's got to be one or the other because the two don't work together.' - Marc Jacobs.
Thirty-Six:
Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world. - Charles Eames.
Thirty-Seven:
When I put my signature on a dress, I regard myself as the creator of a work of art. - Paul Poiret.
Thirty-Eight:
It's always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting. - Jean Paul Gaultier.
Thirty-Nine:
I want to invent new ways of making clothes in new materials, with new shapes and fashion accessories that are up-to-date with the changing ways of life. - Mary Quant.
Forty:
Fashion must be the intoxicating release from the banality of the world. - Diana Vreeland.
Forty-One:
Fashion marks time. - Yohji Yamamoto.
Forty-Two:
I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I'm like nails. I will kill. - Calvin Klein.
Forty-Three:
It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure. - Coco Chanel.
Forty-Four:
Goddesses live in the heavens. They do not stand, they do not walk they glide and sway. The Goddesses are laughing and balance on heels as slender as the tip of a little finger. - Lola Pagola.
One:
Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women. - Elsa Schiaperelli.
Two:
After breathing, eating, and sleeping - and excluding a couple of delicious optional extras - one of the fundamental pleasures of the human body is to clothe it. - Linda Watson, Twentieth-Century Fashion.
Three:
Design is a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life. - Geoffrey Beene.
Four:
Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means...airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash. - Cecil Beaton.
Five:
Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place. - Paul de Man.
Six:
Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response. - April Greiman.
Seven:
The energy of imagination, deliberation, and invention which fall into a natural rhythm totally one's own, maintained by innate discipline and a keen sense of pleasure - these are the ingredients of style. And all who have it share one thing, originality. - Diane Vreeland.
Eight:
"Style" is an expression of individualism mixed with charisma. Fashion is something that comes after style. - John Fairchild.
Nine:
Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability, and that way you might change the world. - Charles Eames.
Ten:
People should know more about their own styles and learn more about themselves. - Vivienne Tam.
Eleven:
I love New York. But the energy is so intense. - John Guliano.
Twelve:
About half of my designs are controlled fantasy, fifteen percent are total madness, and the rest are bread-and-butter designs. - Manolo Blahnik.
Thirteen:
Costumes are the first impression you have of the character before they open their mouth. It really does establish who they are. - Colleen Atwood.
Fourteen:
He who would travel happily must travel light. - Antoinne de Saint-Exupery.
Fifteen:
They came as if there might never be anything like it again: They were in mod clothes, Victorian suits, granny gowns, old west outfits, pirate costumes... - Charles Perry.
Sixteen:
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye. - Miss Piggy.
Seventeen:
Fashion if born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt. - Elsa Schiaparlli.
Eighteen:
In an epoch as somber as ours, one must fight for luxury inch by inch. - Christian Dior.
Nineteen:
Eventually, everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connection is the key... - Charles Eames.
Twenty:
There is only one gift you should accept on your first date - diamonds. - Miss Piggy.
Twenty-One:
Clothes are...nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible. - James Laver.
Twenty-Two:
Judging by the ugly and repugnant things that are sometimes in vogue, it would seem that fashion were desirous of exhibiting its power by getting us to adopt the most atrocious things for its sake alone. - Georg Simml.
Twenty-Three:
Fashion is as profound and critical a part of the social life of man as sex, and is made up of the same ambivalent mixture of irresistable urges and inevitable taboos. - Renee Konig.
Twenty-Four:
Vain trifles as they seem, clothes...change our view of the world, and the world's view of us. - Virginia Woolf.
Twenty-Five:
As long as you know men are like children, you know everything! - Coco Chanel.
Twenty-Six:
Black is the color chosen most often to cloak the pios and those devoted to spiritual sacrifice. The flip side of black suggests a darker nature...calling up references to mystery, magic, and inevitably, a little bit of sin. - Amy Holman Edelman, The Little Black Dress.
Twenty-Seven:
It is as if each of us has one titular robe, and it that special black dress that is both chic and armor. - Edna O'Brien, Mirabella.
Twenty-Eight:
The consciousness of being perfectly dressed may bestow a peace such as religion cannot give. - Herbert Spencer.
Twenty-Nine:
Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death. Coco Chanel.
Thirty:
I think fashion is that we go two steps forward and fifteen back each time because you always have to look back and see what's been done. - Bob Mackie.
Thirty-One:
Tradion doesn't make for fashion. What matters is the architecture of the garment and that architecture has to be international. - Chantal Rosseau.
Thirty-Two:
Accessories are what, in my opinion, pull the whole look together and make it unique. - Yves Saint Laurent.
Thirty-Three:
I wanted this. I wanted to do this. But my work is me, and it has to be right. - Oscar de la Renta.
Thirty-Four:
Red is the ultimate cure for sadness. - Bill Blass.
Thirty-Five:
The expression a woman wears on her face is more important than the clothes she wears on her back. - Dale Carengie.
Thirty-Six:
Never let your frog outdress you. - Miss Piggy.
Thirty-Seven:
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. - Cecil Beaton.
Thirty-Eight:
I can't afford a whole new set of enemies. - Cecil Beaton.
Thirty-Nine:
Fashion design is a functional art. It's an art you can actually touch and feel and interact with and not be afraid to wear. - Rebecca Turbow.
Forty:
Whether it's the past or the present, all my ideas come from what's going on around me. - Anna Sui.
Forty-One:
I liked the whole feeling...that everything was about to happen, that there were so many possibilities. - Anna Sui.
Forty-Two:
It is all magica. I always look at nature and I think nature has the most beautiful colors. I always have to have colors in my designs, like the flowers and the sea, that make life. - Vivienne Tam.
Forty-Three:
The dress must not hang on the body but follow its lines. When a woman smiles, the dress must smile with her. - Madeline Voinnet.
Forty-Four:
Clothes can suggest, persuade, connote, insinuate, or indeed lie, and apply subtle pressure while their wearer is speaking frankly and straightforwardly of other matters. - Anna Hollander.
Forty-Five:
Souls wouldn't wear suits and ties. They'd wear blue jeans and sit cross-legged with a glass of red wine. - Carrie Latet.
Forty-Six:
A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined. - Anne Petry.
Forty-Seven:
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
Forty-Eight:
All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left. - Cecil Beaton.
Forty-Nine:
The first time you see everything put together, you finally say, "Oh my God! It works!" Because it has been a long process, when it's finally finished you think, "Finally, it's done!" - Vivienne Tam.
One:
She wore a short skirt and tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak. - Woody Allen, Getting Even, 1973.
Two:
Only the minute and the future are intersting in fashion - it exists to be destroyed. If everybody did evertything with respect, you'd go nowhere. - Earl Langerfeld.
Three:
I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. - Gilda Radner.
Four:
Women are now more comfortable with themselves and their bodies - they no longer feel the need to hide behind their clothes. - Donna Karan.
Five:
I'm still me after all that's happened. - Victoria Becham.
Six:
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. - Francis Bacon.
Seven:
Design is not an ambush...it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them. - Genevive Gorder.
Eight:
Fashion is at once both caterpillar and butterfly. It's a caterpillar by day and a butterfly by night. - Coco Chanel.
Nine:
Clothes can suggest, persuade, connote, insinuate, or indeed lie, and apply subtle pressure while their wearer is speaking frankly and straightforwardly of other matters. - Anna Hollander.
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"Daughters are like flowers; they fill the world with beauty and sometimes attrct pests." - Author unknown.
Ten:
Fashion contains the potential for renewal and transformation. The more costumes one has, the more fantasy personas one can adopt. - Edith Gould.
Eleven:
Clothing should be used as a tool and as a weapon. - John T. Molly.
Twelve:
Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing. - Paola Antoinelli.
Thirteen:
Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story. - Mason Cooley.
Fourteen:
Is fashionable dress part of the opression of women, or is it a form of adult play? - Elizabeth Wilson.
Fifteen:
The same costume will be Indecent ten years before its time, Shameless five years before its time, Outre' (daring) one year before its time, Smart (in its own time), Doudy one year after its time, Rediculous twenty years after its time, Amusing thirty years after its time, Quaint fifty years after its time, Charming seventy years after its time, Romantic one hundred years after its time, Beautiful one-hundred-and-fifty years after its time. - James Laver.
Sixteen:
I love those bras that "enhance" shape, although (when all is said and done) they can be deceiving. But, by the time I have a girl's bra off, I'm so happy just to be there I'm willing to live with the deception. - Rich Santos, Marie Claire Magazine.
Seventeen:
The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was saying: Look at what I killed! Aren't I the best? - Katharine Hamnett.
Eighteen:
And by my grave you'd pray to have me back.
So I could see how well you look in black. - Marco Carson.
Nineteen:
The erogenous zone is always shifting, and it's the business of fashion to pursue it, without ever catching it up. - James Laver.
Twenty:
I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reported, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I'd dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed like Elton John a lot too. That was another period. - Illeana Douglas.
Twenty-One:
I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked. - David Bailey.
Twenty-Two:
Where's the man could ease a heart like a satin gown? - Dorothy Parker.
Twenty-Three:
Fashion is an art. You expose who you are through what you're wearing. - Danille Donato.
Twenty-Four:
Fashions are born and they die too quickly for anyone to learn to love them. - Bettina Ballard.
Twenty-Five:
Artistic creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls in the depths of the mind. - Robert Toth.
Twenty-Six:
The dress is a vase which the body follows. My clothes are like modules in which bodies move. - Pierre Cardin.
Twenty-Seven:
It's not what you wear - it's how you take it off. - Author unknown.
Twenty-Eight:
Sometimes there are two very opposite directions, and we go with the stronger one at the end. It's an impulse thing, like, "Oh, I love both so much, but it's got to be one or the other because the two don't work together." - Marc Jacobs.
also:
Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly. - Cecil Beaton.
Twenty-Nine:
Design is the search for a magical balance between business and art; art and craft; intuition and reason; concept and detail; playfulness and formality; client and designer. - Valerie Pettis.
Thirty:
On the subject of dress, almost no one, for one or another reason, feels truly indifferent: if their own clothes concern them, somebody else's do. - Elizabeth Bowen.
Thirty-One:
You can think you've made it and yet the next day's press will always be waiting for you, the public will always ask more of you. In short, you can always do better! - Georgio Armani.
Thirty-Two:
Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat. - Sydney J. Harris.
Thirty-Three:
A designer can mull over complicated designs for months. Then suddenly the simple, elegant solution occurs to him. When it happens to you, it feels as though God is talking! And maybe He is. - Leo Frankowski.
Thirty-Four:
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. - Henry Fielding.
Thirty-Five:
The fifties and sixties were a time of innocence and innocence destroyed. Fashion ruled the day, separting the "squares" from the "cool," the Ivy League from those who would later come to be labelled "Radicals." - Angela Epps.
Thirty-Six:
A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off you. - Fancois Sagan.
Thirty-Seven:
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.
Thirty-Eight:
In order to be irreplacable one must always be different. - Coco Chanel.
One:
The man who invented the zip fastener was today honored with a lifetime peerage. He'll now be known as the Lord of the Flies. - Ronnie Barker.
Two:
We are creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse of life, we are governed by whim, caprice, prejudice, or accident. - William Hazlitt.
Three:
Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are. - Quentin Crisp.
Four:
Once upon a perfect night, unclouded and still, there came the face or a pale and beautiful lady. The tesses of her hair reached out to make the constellations, and the dewy vapor of her gown fell soft upon the land. - Kit Williams.
Five:
Shoes and clothing damage our ability to survive naked in the wilderness. - Steve Mann.
Six:
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up? - Chuck Palahnuik.
Seven:
Fashions are like human beings. They come in, nobody knows when; why; or how. They go out nobody knows when; why; or how. - Charles Dickens.
Eight:
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age. - Georg C. Lichtenberg.
Nine:
If, in ready-to-wear, a garment is manufacetured accosding to standard sizes, the haute couture garment adapts to any imperfection in order to eliminate it. - Yves Saint Laurent.
Ten:
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. - Carl Jung.
Eleven:
I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes, where a woman's personality and sense of self are revealed. I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman. - Vera Wang.
Twelve:
The trench coat is the only thing that has kept its head above water. - Jack Lipman.
Thirteen:
Once they gain a certain level of acceptance, mass delusions can spread like wildfire. They're contagious, as with clothes, fashion. - Francis Wheen.
Fourteen:
What the "Utility Suit" of England, the "Victory Suit" of America, and the "Everyman's Clothing" of Germany had in common was their economic use of fabric and simplicity of design. - Gerda Buxbaum.
Fifteen:
Clothes are but a symbol of something hid deep beneath. - Virginia Woolf.
Sixteen:
Home is a place not only of strong affection...it is life's undress rehearsal, its back room, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse , leaving behind cast-off and everyday clothing. - Harriett Beecher Stowe.
Seventeen:
A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives. - Geoffrey Beene.
Eighteen:
I was at Paris Fashion Week, working on a project where I was taking designers from Paris to Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lampur, and Manilla, to expose them to these markets. - Dose Magazine, Canada.
Nineteen:
This is my costume. I'm a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else. - Wednesday Addams, The Addams Family.
Twenty:
People used to complain to me all the time, "I can't hear you sing because your clothes are so loud." - Cyndi Laupur.
Twenty-One:
Grunge [fashion] is synonymous with the condition of youth and stands for fear of the future...a feeling of helplessness. - Gerda Buxbaum.
Twenty-Two:
Fashion does not reflect nostalgia for the past, but an eternal present that lies beyond the past. - Barbara Vinken.
Twenty-Three:
Jeans were the insignia of the resistance for only a short time. Then they became the universal, unisex apparrel worn by most of the world's population. - Ulf Poschardt.
Twenty-Four:
I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. - Camille Claudel.
Twenty-Five:
Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put on the costume. - Lucy Liu.
Twenty-Six:
Wearing this kind of costume is not something I fantasize about. It's not natural, it's not comfortable. - Joan Severance.
Twenty-Seven:
Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike. - Eric Bentley.
Twenty-Eight:
I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. - Vera Wang.
Twenty-Nine:
Above all, remember that the most important thing you can take anywhere is not a Gucci bag or French-cut jeans, it's an open mind. - Gail Ruben Bereny.
Thirty:
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. - Cecil Beaton.
Thirty-One:
Love it or hate it, what we wear is a huge part of how we communicate with the world. And the messages the clothes send are more than just the "hipness" of the latest fashion. - Laine Burgeson, Utne, 2003.
Thirty-Two:
Have you ever stopped to think that the serious subject of woman's progress and the frivolous subject of woman's clothes are very closely related? - Woman's Home Companion, 1914.
Thirty-Three:
Over the years what I have learned is that what is imporant about a dress is the woman wearing it. - Yves Saint Laurent.
Thirty-Four:
By far the best dressing up outfit I ever had was a wonderful pair of clown dungarees, which my Grandma made. - Kate Middleton.
Thirty-Five:
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.
Thirty-Six:
Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely. - Christian Dior.
Thirty-Seven:
Elegance is not the perogative of those who have just escaped adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future. - Coco Chanel.
Thirty-Eight:
You wouldn't know me to see me dressed. - James Whitcomb Riley.
Thirty-Nine:
To live content with small means; to elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; worthy not respectable, and wealth, not, rich; to listen to stars and bird, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never...that is my symphony. - William Henry Channing.
One:
I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time. - Lada Gaga.
Two:
Over the years what I have learned is that what is imporant about a dress is the woman wearing it. - Yves Saint Laurent.
Three:
Clothes are...nothing less than the furniture of the mind made visible. - James Laver.
Four:
There is a playfulness...reflecting the growing sense that women were rebelling against the conformity of the 1960s "Mod" look and now wanted to plunder the dressing-up box of history. This new romanticism must have felt startlingly new and would continue as a big influence throughout the 1970s. It is from this moment that the miniskirt went into a decline. - Design Museum, Fifty Dresses that Changed the World.
Five:
The consciousness of being perfectly dressed may bestow a peach such as religion cannot give. - Herbert Spencer.
Six:
My most prized posession [is] my mom's wedding dress. It's from the '70s, half Bohemian/half Victorian. She wore it in the fall of 1975 with orange and yellow chrysanthemums in her hair. I wore it to my own wedding five years ago and it still seemed completely modern. - Becki Newton.
Seven:
It does not seem fair that, unbeknownst to you, every single item you put on your body literally shouts out your unconscious dreams and desires to the entire world. Everyone who sees you can read you like a book, yet you yourself have no idea what you're saying. - Cynthia Heimel.
Eight:
The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect. - Carson McCullery.
Nine:
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes - and ships - and sealing wax -
Of cabbages - and kings -" - Lewis Carroll,
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There
Ten:
Only self-appreciation is allowed in the fitting room. Praise your curves and give thanks to those fantastic legs. - Janie Bryant, The Fashion File
Eleven:
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. - Carl Jung.
Twelve:
I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do. - Rhianna.
Thirteen:
I would like to say that I am not pessimistic about the future. Our assets are unrivalled. Inside this issue you will see some of Britain's amazing new achievements. Some of them are frivolous. All are wildly exciting. I am one of them. - Jean Shrimpton, Vogue, September 15, 1965.
Fourteen:
Why not be one's self? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekinese? - Edith Sitwell, 1887 - 1964.
Fifteen:
One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or, if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. - Harriett Butcher Stowe.
Sixteen:
Clothes can suggest, persuade, connote, insinuate, or indeed lie, and apply subtle pressure while their wearer is speaking frankly and straightforwardly of other matters. - Anna Hollander.
Seventeen:
For the country club: The goal is to create a polished outfit that's a cut above your very favorite casual look. - Hillary Kerr and Katharine Power, What to Wear, Where.
Eighteen:
Make tomorrow a new start: take all the pains of the past and all the dissapointments - then pack them in a bag and throw them in the river. - American Proverb.
Nineteen:
Style is independent of fashion. Those who have style can indeed accept or ignore fashion. For them, fashion is not something to be followed, it is rather something to be set, to select from or totally reject. Style is spontaneous, inborn. It is gloriously deliberate, unpremedidated but [a] divine gift of the few. - "Spotlight on Style," Vogue, September 1, 1976.
Twenty:
A sea of funeral black dresses saddens the paparazzi to no end. Explore gowns in jewel tones or pastel hues if you're usually more inclined to darker shades. - Jane Bryant, The Fashion File.
Twenty-One:
I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules. - Vera Wang.
Twenty-Two:
I there is no copying, how are you going to have fashion? - Coco Chanel.
Twenty-Three:
Fashion adjusts to the speed of the traffic, holds its own in the adaptation to the rapid, fleeting appearance that alone promises the attention, and the gaze, of those passing in continual motion. - Sabine Fabo, 1998.
Twenty-Four:
Oh what a sight were Man, if his attires
Did alter with his minde;
And like a dolphines skinne, his clothes combin'd
With his desires! - George Herbert, 1593-1633.
Twenty-Five:
My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way. - Henry Youngman.
Twenty-Six:
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.
Twenty-Seven:
The most reliable thing in my closet [is] my old RAF military jacket bought years ago at Portobello Market in my old neighborhood in Notting Hill, London. It looks great with jeans, leather pants, or even a cocktail dress. Plus I love the history of it. - Padma Lakshmi.
Twenty-Eight:
The intoxication obtained from wearing certain articles of clothing can be as powerful as that induced by a drug. - Bernard Rudofsky, The Unfashionable Human Body.
Twenty-Nine:
The creative part of fashion has always worked alongside the creative forces that have defined and colored a decade, an era. As much as art, fashion is a manifestation of the times - of its psychologicial, social, political existance. - Irene Sharaff (American costume designer for Stage and Screen).
Thirty:
Mount on French heels when you go to a ball, 'Tis the fashion to show you can totter and fall. - A Receipt for Modern Dress, 1753.
Thirty-One:
They really shouldn't allow a veil like this. All the men should rise in a body and make it a law for any woman not to be so attractive. It's just a frill of lace, but it has been attached to the inside of a hat, just where the crown rests on the head. It really should be stopped - men have a hard enough time in the world as it is. - "Makers of Mystery," Vogue, 1917.
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