A beautiful dress may look beautiful on a hanger, but that means nothing. It must be seen on the shoulders, with the movement of the arms, the legs, and the waist.
-Coco Chanel
Quotations
Fashion
Fashion has the power to magically transform you;
when you look good, you feel good.
-Syarifah Liza Mashita
It is impossible to be completely abstract about clothes because they have no life unless they are worn. They must fit onto a body or they do not exist.
-Elizabeth Hawes
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-Oscar Wilde
It is impossible to be completely abstract about clothes because they have no life unless they are worn. They must fit onto a body or they do not exist.
-Elizabeth Hawes
"Why is a Dress?"
Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.
-Coco Chanel
Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.
-Coco Chanel
Make up is generally there to make you look better, not make you look like you're wearing make up.
-Hadley Freeman
The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.
-Mary Quant
