Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Fashion
Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive.
-Karl Lagerfeld
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 has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.
-Coco Chanel
Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
-Margaret Oliphant
Make up is generally there to make you look better, not make you look like you're wearing make up.
-Hadley Freeman
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?"
The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.
-Karl Lagerfeld
A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion.
-Coco Chanel
