• 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

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