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
One should never confuse fashionable with beautiful.
-Beth Fantaskey
"Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side"
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-Oscar Wilde
Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.
-Karl Lagerfeld
In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Make up is generally there to make you look better, not make you look like you're wearing make up.
-Hadley Freeman
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
Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.
-Karl Lagerfeld
To me, clothing is a form of self-expression - there are hints about who you are in what you wear.
-Mark Jacobs
When a woman smiles, then her dress should smile too.
-Madeleine Vionnet
