Favorite Fashion / Designer Quotes

[purplelucrezia]

I originally posted this elsewhere, but it seems more relevant here...

"Look at me, I'm in another world - a dream world that invites oblivion. People take drugs to achieve such freedom from their daily cares. I've never taken drugs. I've never needed them. I achieve a high through work."
~Romain de Tirtoff, 1892 - 1990
(Erte)

 

[prixi]

Giorgio Armani-
I believe that style is the only real luxury that is desirable.

Coco Chanel-
Fashion passes, style remains.

JPG-
Elegance is a question of personality, more than one's clothing.

Ralph Lauren-
I'm interested in longevity, timelessness, style-not fashion.

 

[softgrey]

i know i've already posted this...but i think it deserves a home here...

 

[ultramarine]

“Ten years before its time, a fashion is indecent; ten years after, it is hideous; but a century after, it is romantic.”
--James Laver
“Fashion is made to become unfashionable.”
--Coco Chanel
“A lady is one who never shows her underwear unintentionally.”
--Lillian Day
“I don’t say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.”
--Orson Welles
“Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.”
--Coco Chanel

 

[Terrima183]

'You can never be too rich or too thin" - not sure...

 

[purplelucrezia]

I apologize for the lack of political correctness, it's from a 19th century novel.
Still too great though...

"A woman should some day write the complete philosophy of clothes. No matter how young, it is one of the things she wholly comprehends. There is an indescribably faint line in the matter of man's apparel which somehow divides for her those who are worth glancing at and those who are not. Once an individual has passed this faint line on the way downward he will get no glance from her. There is another line at which the dress of a man will cause her to study her own. This line the individual at her elbow now marked for Carrie. She became conscious of an inequality. Her own plain blue dress, with its black cotton tape trimmings, now seemed to her shabby. She felt the worn state of her shoes."
- from Sister Carrie, by Theodore Dreiser

 

[BrothaG]

"Fashions fade, style is eternal" - Yves Saint Laurent

 

[oanadobre]

An approximative translation in english from a Coco Chanel quote, which I find brilliant:

Dress badly and people will notice the clothes. Dress well and people will notice the woman.

 

[purplelucrezia]

Not my favourite, but one that I found and liked.

"Most young girls grow up dreaming of life as a princess- roaming castles in flowing gowns, their hair adorned with jewels. Haute couture is like one of those storybook dreams brought to life. It is honestly inspiring."
-Carolyn Murphy


(Funny how some of those little girls grow up to dress as princesses, simply because of a lovely face or body that they were given. That's life though).

 

[AlexN]

Originally posted by oanadobre@Oct 5 2004, 07:07 AM
Dress badly and people will notice the clothes. Dress well and people will notice the woman.

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Hmmm...I wouldn't say that's always true. Softgrey, I love that Vivienne Westwood quote.

"You can never be too rich or too thin." Maybe not too rich...

 

[Nader]

you can definitely be too thin... just look at Jeisa's kneecaps when she had her little anorexia thing goin on...

my two faves:

"A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future" - coco
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months" - wilde

 

[tiffany]

Originally posted by ignitioned32+May 1 2004, 12:44 AM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ignitioned32 @ May 1 2004, 12:44 AM)</div><div class='quotemain'>I'm not sure if I have a favorite, but, I like "For something to be beautiful it doesn't have to be pretty." - Rei Kawakubo

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That's both very lovely and very true

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while I don't agree, I do find that funny

 

[em 692]

Favorite Designer Quotes

My favorite designer quote:

"Fashion can't always be about impulse. It must be planned."

-Karl Lagerfield (Chanel), in an interview with InStyle

This explains why I decide what I will wear each day the week before.

 

[Curious]

Ha! I JUST read that article.

Hmm.. can't think of my own right now... be back

Nice topic, btw.

 

[Spike413]

I love a lot of Coco Chanel's quotes (as you can see by my signature)

some favorites other then my siggie....

"Fashion is made to become unfashionable"

" 'Where should one use perfume' a young woman asked. 'Wherever one wants to be kissed' I said."

 

[em 692]

Good quotes, Spike.

 

[mademoiselle_]

the one of my signature

I don't design clothes. I design dreams. - Ralph Lauren

Fashion is a kind of vitamin for style. -Yves Saint Laurent

I believe that style is the only real luxury that is really desirable-Giorgio Armani

I brought back the neglected art of pleasing.-Christian dior

Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest. -Christian dior

I love luxury ... not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity ... the ugliest word in our language.-Coco Chanel

 

[hugobossdaria]

nice quotes

 

[SevenWeeksLater]

Im gonna use Christians quote in my signature.

 

[VivianL]

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
- Oscar Wilde