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
One should never confuse fashionable with beautiful.
-Beth Fantaskey
"Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side"
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"
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?"
There's nothing interesting about looking perfect—you lose the point. You want what you're wearing to say something about you, about who you are.
-Emma Watson
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
-Jean Cocteau
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
Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.
-Karl Lagerfeld
What makes a woman beautiful is how she dress and carry herself.
-Anonymous
"SAC Fetish Online Shop"
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
-Henry David Thoreau
