A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes.

A personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.
Alan Bennett
It’s quite a revolution, dear Christian. Your dresses have such a new look.

Carmel Snow’s famous words to Christian Dior
Haute Couture is like an orchestra, whose conductor is Balenciaga.

We other couturiers are the musicians and we follow the directions he gives”
Christian Dior about Cristobal Balenciaga”
For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.

Karl Lagerfeld
Fashion is life-enhancing and it's a lovely, generous thing to do for other people

Vivienne Westwood
Fashion should be a form of escapism, not a form of imprisonment.

Alexander McQueen
Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will. Like an instinct.

Edith Head
I have tried all my life to be the physician of the figure.

Vionnet
I think the next fashion revolution shall come from the chemist too.

When the chemist works with the artist there will be a revolution and it shall serve the society.
— Geoffrey Beene
In difficult times fashion is always outrageous.

Elsa Schiaparelli
The wonderful thing about this profession is that dream and reality are one.

Yves Saint Laurent
The beauty of dress, as the beauty of life, comes always from freedom.

Oscar Wilde
If it's not edible it's not food. If it's not wearable it's not fashion.

Alber Elbaz
The dress must not hang on the body but follow its lines.

It must accompany its wearer and when a woman smiles the dress must smile with her.
Madeleine Vionnet
I am not a designer, I am a cutter.

Yohji Yamamoto (from the book "Un mondo nuovo" by Ennio Capasa")
The coolest thing is when you don’t care about being cool anymore.

Rick Owens
I'm like a Marco Polo I go around and mix cultures.

Gianni Versace
"Whenever I don't sleep, I cut"

Madame Grés
"I don't want to show clothes, I want to show my attitude, my past, present and future"

Raf Simons
“Fashion is an element mysterious as uranium and just as explosive, but light, lighter than air.”

Carmel Snow from the book "A dash of daring" by Penelope Rowlands
"Fashion is instant language. What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language.”

Miuccia Prada from the book “Ads of the 20th century fashion” by Taschen
"I have tried all my life to be the physician of the figure"

Vionnet
People who dress badly are the real stylists

People who make mistakes or dress badly are the real stylists. My “You feel as though you’ve eaten too much” collection is taken from exactly those moments when you are mistaken or embarrassed.
Jean Paul Gaultier
It is just as stupid to dress your body in ugly clothes as it is to fill your mind with cheap and ugly literature.
From “The lost art of dress”
More than one third of department store buyers, a job that often required annual trips to Paris, were women by 1924.
From the book: The Lost Art of Dress