“Fashion is, ultimately, about nothing but appearance – and money. It is one enterprise in which the colour of the skin is far more important than the individual inside it.”
Colin McDowell
Photo source: Elle France 27 December 2013 (photography: Matt Jones, styling: Elissa Castelbou)
“Fashion is not just about decoration, it’s much deeper. Pure can be rich and opulent, too. The purer it gets, the more quality you need. Minimal, when it’s dry and has no energy, looks poor.”
Jil Sander
Photo source: Vogue Nippon May 2009 (photography: Nathaniel Goldberg; styling: Marie Chaix)
“Fashion is about changing yourself into the person you dream of being.. and then feeling better about yourself and with the others.”
Carine Roitfeld
Photo source: Marie Claire Netherlands December 2013 (photography: Hans Van Brakel; styling: Simone Dernee)
“There are women in fashion that want to be like all the other ones, but fashion can show your differences and that is beautiful because we are each unique.”
Jean Paul Gaultier
Photo source: “Glamour parade", Madame Figaro France February 2010 (photography: Esther Haase)
“Fashion is about emotion. It’s not about shocking. It’s about what you want to wear.”
Ricardo Tisci
Photo source: L’Officiel Brazil July 2007
“Fashion week used to be something with a certain degree of quality, but now it resembles the ready-to-wear trade fairs of the 1980s.”
Nicolas Ghesquiere
System magazine, issue no.1
Photo source: City magazine, photography: Liam Alexander
“Fashion is not necessarily about labels. It's not about brands. It's about something else that comes from within you.”
Ralph Lauren
Photo source: Vogue Paris December/January 2006/07
“Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.”
Alexander McQueen
Photo source: Harper’s Bazaar US March 2008
“Fashion is about selection, editing. You have to be very severe to your selection, so you keep something to yourself – even in the way you present yourself.”
Nicolas Ghesquière
Photo source: Elle France February 2010
“Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes
to interpret reality.”
Karl Lagerfeld
Photo source: Grazia Russia December 2009
“When you're in fashion, you always have to be aware of everything.”
Azzedine Alaia
Photo source: Flaunt 2010
“Fashion today is fifty per cent attitude - and what makes you feel sexy, modern, or old, interesting, or squalid is only attitude.”
Domenico Dolce
Photo source: Anja Rubik wearing Dolce&Gabbana in Harper’s Bazaar US January 2010
“The difference between style and fashion is quality.”
Giorgio Armani
Photo source: Vogue US November 1989
“Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable.
Style is more about being yourself.”
Oscar de la Renta
Photo source: Vogue Nippon September 2010
“When people think of fashion, they always prefer to see the crazy side, the clichéd side of it. But that’s wrong. Fashion is an important part of woman’s life.”
Miuccia Prada
Photo source: Vogue Australia September 2010
“Fashion is more a way of living life with your roots, and finding your own true self, then having a logo to put on your back.”
Christian Lacroix
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Photo source: Elle Italia October 2008
“Fashion has a reason “to be” because in fashion you can find new kinds of expressions about human beings.”
Ann Demeulemeester
Photo source: Guess campaign Fall/Winter 1992/1993
"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
Photo source: Harper’s Bazaar March 1994
“Fashion lives in reality. It is an expression of it, drawing its contents from it.
Fashion cannot be a sterile cult of the past. Rather it is an extraordinary expression of love for the past and for tradition. An avowed love of what tradition is able to transmit and communicate to the sensibility of today.”
Gianfranco Ferre
Photo source: Vogue Spain April 2004
