HAUTE QUOTURE: Fashion Quotes and Designer Quotations

Sample quotations from the book ...

The goal I seek is to have people refine their style through my clothing without having them become victims of fashion.
Giorgio Armani

The dress is a vase which the body follows. My clothes are like modules in which bodies move.
Pierre Cardin

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

I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can't accept that it should originate there.
Coco Chanel

Elegance is a question of personality, more than one's clothing.
Jean-Paul Gaultier

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

Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.
Diana Vreeland

I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
Yves Saint Laurent

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.
Elsa Schiaparelli

Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.
Gianni Versace

Fashion is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas.
Bruce Oldfield

Fashion, as we knew it, is over; people wear now exactly what they feel like wearing.
Mary Quant

Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.
Edna Woolman Chase

Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.
Eric Bently

Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Jean Cocteau

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 Rubin Bereny

A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
Quentin Crisp

When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
Stephen Fry

Dress code is everything. You can be a card-carrying Nazi, or pay gigolos to eat gnocchi out of your navel, and you won’t be pilloried. But never, ever wear linen with tweed.
Kathy Lette

I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.
Katharine Hepburn

The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.
Paris Hilton

A woman's dress should be like a barbed wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
Sophia Loren

I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
Gilda Radner

Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?"
Rita Rudner

There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
Lily Tomlin

I can remember when pants were pants. You wore them for twenty years, then you cut them down for pan scrubs. Or quilts.
Victoria Wood

There’s comfort to an awful old dressing-gown a pretty peignoir is powerless to provide, and aging bra elastic, is, I suspect, as near to liberation as most women ever get.
Katharine Whitehorn

The only really firm rule of taste about cross-dressing is that neither sex should ever wear anything they haven’t yet figured out how to go to the bathroom in.
P.J. O’Rourke

I don't like those chiffon nighties ... they show your vest.
Joyce Grenfell

Once you accept the universe as something expanding into nothing, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
Albert Einstein

They should put expiration dates on clothes so we would know when they go out of style.
Gary Shandling


If God had intended for women to wear slacks, He would have constructed them differently.
Emily Post

If God wanted us to be naked, why did he invent sexy lingerie?
Shannen Doherty

If God had meant men to have children, he would have given them a PVC apron.
Victoria Woods

If God hadn’t meant us to hunt men, he wouldn’t have given us Wonder Bras.
Kathy Lette