Quotes by Fashion Designers - Page 2

A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
Coco Chanel
The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.
Karl Lagerfeld
The visions of a healthy brain,Give us pleasure over and again;For this home was done,From the daytime dreams of one.
Omar Kiam
I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.
Coco Chanel
Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English--but are great in remembering signs
Karl Lagerfeld
You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur
Karl Lagerfeld
Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale.
Karl Lagerfeld
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
Elsa Schiaparelli
Compromise is low class. I don't have anything against the poor, but being low class is the root of all evil
Novala Takemoto
Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
Yves Saint-Laurent
Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.
Karl Lagerfeld
Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.
Vivienne Westwood
We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.
Karl Lagerfeld
No garment which distorts the shape and motion of the wearer is beautiful, nor s any garment beautiful which emphasizes more than one or at most two of your sexual characteristics.
Elizabeth Hawes
To be irreplaceable you have to be different.
Coco Chanel
Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans — it’s up to you.
Karl Lagerfeld
A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.
Coco Chanel
Take all the fullness out of this skirt," they say. "Ok," we say, "but you'll feel awfully silly in it next year." "What do I care about next year?" they answer. "Any dress which isn't in style for at least three years isn't any good to begin with," we say.
Elizabeth Hawes
I don't even know what my natural color is. Natural? What is natural? What is that? I do not believe in totally natural for women. For me, natural has something to do with vegetables
Donatella Versace
A balloon seller sells his breath till death to spread happiness, while he can't taste any of it.
Sujit Meher
Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.
Karl Lagerfeld
I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
Yves Saint-Laurent
Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.
Coco Chanel
In my life I doubt if I will ever forget the sensation of your lips against mine
Novala Takemoto
For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them
Karl Lagerfeld
No matter the age, a woman who is unloved is lost - unloved she might as well die.
Coco Chanel
Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore – and then you get something out of her
Karl Lagerfeld
Now is the time to become a myth.
Diane Von Furstenberg
Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests
Karl Lagerfeld
Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
Karl Lagerfeld
The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
Karl Lagerfeld
It is impossible to be completely abstract about clothes because they have no life unless they are worn. They must fit onto a body or they do not exist.
Elizabeth Hawes
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
Coco Chanel
As long as you know most men are like children, you know everything.
Coco Chanel
The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.
Karl Lagerfeld
I'm very down to Earth, I'm just not from this Earth.
Karl Lagerfeld
All I trust is the past. Things that have ended can't betray me.
Novala Takemoto
The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven't had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there.
Yves Saint-Laurent
Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.
Karl Lagerfeld
I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.
Coco Chanel
I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.
Karl Lagerfeld
I had a dream, which seemed so real,I was King of the world, so full of appeal,Upon waking I found I wasn't alone,In a kingdom called Home, sitting on a throne.
Omar Kiam
Think, Travel, Celebrate, Charm, Decorate, Dress, Live - colorfully
Kate Spade
Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.
Coco Chanel
Success is the sweetest revenge.
Vanessa Williams
A man should never wear shorts in the city. Flip-flops and shorts in the city are never appropriate. Shorts should only be worn on the tennis court or on the beach.
Tom Ford
I exist here, now. I'm not much interested in the future. Or, more precisely put, I do not believe in the future. To exaggerate a little, I have no faith that I will still exist tomorrow or the day after. What is more, I absolutely detest retrospection. That dislike is balances only by my desire to make my way back home as quickly as possible.
Yohji Yamamoto
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
Coco Chanel
Society has put up so many boundaries, so many limitations on what’s right and wrong that it’s almost impossible to get a pure thought out. It’s like a little kid, a little boy, looking at colors, and no one told him what colors are good, before somebody tells you you shouldn’t like pink because that’s for girls, or you’d instantly become a gay two-year-old. Why would anyone pick blue over pink? Pink is obviously a better color. Everyone’s born confident, and everything’s taken away from you
Kanye West
Having money isn't everything, not having it is.
Kanye West
Most people are full of themselves and speak only the obnoxiously superficial, in other words they're annoying as hell
Novala Takemoto
Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.
Coco Chanel
People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.
Karl Lagerfeld
Respect is not creative ... Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore — and then you get something out of her.
Karl Lagerfeld
High heels? Painful pleasure.
Christian Dior
I have a firm belief in such things as, you know, the water, the Earth, the trees and sky. And I'm wondering, it is increasingly difficult to find those elements in nature, because it's nature I believe in rather than some spiritual thing.
Bill Blass
Death is the price you paid for being born.
Gloria Vanderbilt
Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
Coco Chanel
Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.
Coco Chanel
There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time.
Coco Chanel