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
Quotations
Fashion
When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald"
I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!
-Marilyn Monroe
The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
-Yves Saint Laurent
In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.
-Karl Lagerfeld
To me, clothing is a form of self-expression - there are hints about who you are in what you wear.
-Mark Jacobs
Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
-Quentin Crisp
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-Oscar Wilde
Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.
-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
"Why is a Dress?"
