Favorite Fashion / Designer Quotes

[Nouvelle Noir]

Some more:

I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like grass, because it just makes me hungry.

I think kids are really screwing themselves up. How many teenaged women are having abortions? Plenty!

I think there's something incredibly sexy about a woman wearing her boyfriend's T-shirt and underwear.

I took the risk of putting my money on the line for the company.

I will never forget having that revolver at my temple.

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

I worked with an editor at British Vogue, and she said, You're just too puritanical!

I would use steam to shape the clothes, mold them the way I wanted them. I did it entirely myself. Those were great days!

I'm a sexual person, and that's reflected in my clothes and my advertisements.

I'm crazy, and I don't pretend to be anything else.

I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.

I'm involved in the fit, coloration, choice of fabric, advertising.

I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?

I'm neither Democrat nor Republican.

 

[Nouvelle Noir]

A little mystery isn't so bad. I stopped at nothing. I would do anything.

ABC received perhaps 300 letters protesting two of our commercials with Brooke, and we were running about seven of them at the time.

AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.

Any kind of operation frightens me. I don't like hospitals.

Anyone who is secure about herself shouldn't be threatened by the ads I do.

Anything I've wanted to do, I've done. Everyone I've wanted to be with, I've had.

Commercials capture your attention, that's all.

Designer jeans are a relatively new phenomenon.

During the '70s, everyone was experiencing freedom and a little decadence. I enjoyed being kind of outrageous about taking chances.

For one of the few times in my life, I went to my parents for advice. My father convinced me to make the commitment to stick with fashion.

Half of what I read in the press isn't true.

Having sex with three people or five people isn't really as great as sex with someone you're really in love with.

I believe a marriage should be monogamous. If you have to go somewhere else for sex, then why be married?

I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.

I could't have gotten to the place where I am if I had been tripping on acid during the day.

I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.

I don't always want my opinion known. What little privacy I have left I'd like to maintain.

I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.

I don't mind the clothes' being criticized, but I'm not on the runway!

I don't think about my fame very much.

I don't think any 16- or 17-year-old should experience sexual intercourse.

I don't trust a lot of journalists.

I drive down Broadway every day to my studio, and I purposely have the Calvin Klein billboards arranged in Times Square so I can see them.

I get either very excited about something or very depressed.

I guess I don't have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don't think I'd like it.

I have the New York Daily News to thank for the jeans controversy.

I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I'm like nails. I will kill.

I love Brooke. Exploiting her was never my intention.

I love women. I'm trying to do beautiful things with them. I'm not trying to insult them. My life is not about that.

I personally would not have plastic surgery. What the hell for? It looks ridiculous.

I recover quickly and am stronger now than I was 10 years ago. Everything about me is strong.

I stay up until all hours. I don't require much sleep.

That was a lot...

 

[Miss Dalloway]

May I have the link to Karl's quote thread please? Anyone?

Here it is http://www.thefashionspot.com/forums/f60/classic-karl-lagerfeld-quotes-51632.html

 

[Nouvelle Noir]

Here you go why fashion: http://www.thefashionspot.com/forums/f60/classic-karl-lagerfeld-quotes-51632.html

 

[Nouvelle Noir]

Donatella Versace Quotes

"Creativity comes from a conflict of ideas."

“I go from a full working day to making sure I am home for dinner with my kids. I couldn't do that in a 10cm mini skirt but I am not going to resort to sweatpants and an old t-shirt.”

“I would love to dress everyone...but what all these actresses this year have in common is great style, lots of personality and that star quality that makes the red carpet come alive.”

 

[Nouvelle Noir]

Vivienne Westwood Quotes

"But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing."
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/v/viviennewe296212.html
"But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants. "

"Even though it was the 70s, we found old stocks of clothes that had never been worn from the 50s and took them apart. I started to teach myself how to make clothes from that kind of formula. "

"Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well. "
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/v/viviennewe296194.html
"Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men."

 

[Nouvelle Noir]

"First the designs were unisex and then we created clothes for women and young girls."

"However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice."

"I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish. "

"I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire. "

"I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct. "

"I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one's best physical features."

 

[Nouvelle Noir]

You're welcome, Emil; I'm a little bored

 

[Nouvelle Noir]

"I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history."

"I think it's important to vote. "

"I think some people would love to be able to make the clothes I make - and of course, I do influence them, but they keep simplifying, and minimalism doesn't quite work. "

"I think women (and men) should flirt: all's fair in love and war. "

"I was in Italy looking for basic fabrics and started to work with Harris tweed and I decided to do a really kitsch collection based on very, very English things. "

"I was still interested in the youth rebellion but never-the-less I stopped being a victim. Stopped trying to attack the establishment realizing that it takes too much of your energy."

 

[mnis]

on model Gemma Ward
A great model! She has the look of the moment, the attitude of the moment. She is really the model of the moment.

Karl, nobody likes a liar

So true!

 

[Salvatore]

Perhaps there should be a single thread for all of these quotes.

 

[Nouvelle Noir]

Perhaps there should be a single thread for all of these quotes.

Yes! Maybe "Designer Quotes" rather than a bunch of threads; sorry, I didn't think of that

 

[Miss Dalloway]

You're welcome, Emil; I'm a little bored

Hahaha loving your threads!

 

[kikidior]

^ i thought he loved daria ... ... (see how i seem to care ) oh aunt karla ... so fickle ... but at least he's loyal to brad ... thanks brad for keeping her satisfied ...

 

[style_expert]

some more quotes from the always mediashy designer:

I like to be on TV. I love to be on TV

I see myself as a hardworking professional person. But in another way I'm lucky that I can use myself as a kind of puppet

I have curly hair and I don't like it. I'm afraid to cut it; it may not come back, eh? rofl: )

on his image
It's good to have an image like this. You meet a person with a big smile and they are the meanest person in the world. It's good to be seen as unapproachable sometimes. People won't bother you.

on the 'vintage' Chanel dress Reese Witherspoon wore to the Golden Globes that had already been worn by Kirsten Dunst some years ago
That woman at the press office left no files. You have to have files to know who bought what. I don't think you should give these girls recent vintage. The dress was only three years old. It's nobody's fault but the stupid cow who had no files.

on his new line
This thing, I'm not doing it for money. My Chanel contract is more than enough for one person. For me, it's doing for doing

I wanted an American adventure. I felt isolated in Europe. I felt it was the moment to do it. It's a new challenge. New spirit. New people. I like new. Maybe I'm very superficial.

 

[style_expert]

^ i thought he loved daria ... ... (see how i seem to care ) oh aunt karla ... so fickle ... but at least he's loyal to brad ... thanks brad for keeping her satisfied ...

I don't want to know HOW Brad keeps the Queen satisfied...

 

[MissMagAddict]

That woman at the press office left no files. You have to have files to know who bought what. I don't think you should give these girls recent vintage. The dress was only three years old. It's nobody's fault but the stupid cow who had no files.

Stupid Cow

 

[kikidior]

I don't want to know HOW Brad keeps the Queen satisfied...

... i do, i do ... must be fit for a queen ... on a queen-sized bed ...

 

[Miss Dalloway]

... i do, i do ... must be fit for a queen ... on a queen-sized bed ...

 

[sethii]

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