- “After us they’ll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they’ll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, “Oh! Life is so hard!” and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.” ― Anton Chekhov, Three Sisters: A Translation Of The Play By Anton Chekhov
- “Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.” ― Erma Bombeck
- “It’s cool when fashion recycles itself, it’s not cool when sustainable living does because it means there was (and is as I write) a period of absolute and possibly irreversible destruction.” ― Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet
- “Wearing perfume or expensive or trendy clothes is often, if not almost always, a subconscious attempt to make up for an uninteresting mind.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “I have been to lots of partiesand acted perfectly disgracefulbut I never actually collapsedoh Lana Turner we love you get up” ― Frank O’Hara
- “I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.” ― Karl Lagerfeld
- “And now, I’m just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.” ― Lady Gaga
- “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
- “Right/Wrong Things To Say To A Client About Proper FitDon’t Say… Did you know when you wear clothes that are too tight you look ten pounds heavier?Do Say… You say it’s been a while since you went shopping, let’s try a few items and see what works the best. We want it to fit and make you feel fabulous. Would you like to try this? Okay?” ― Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
- “My emotions reflect my my art” ― Martin M. Stupak
- “A girl’s got to use what she’s given and I’m not going to make a guy drool the way a Britney video does. So I take it to extremes. I don’t say I dress sexily on stage – what I do is so extreme. It’s meant to make guys think: ‘I don’t know if this is sexy or just weird.” ― Lady Gaga
- “Right/Wrong Things To Say To A Client About Hair and MakeupDon’t Say… Your hair and makeup say you’re trying too hard to look young.Do Say… Keys to beauty are finding the styles that work best for you now. Could we take a look at an idea book? When you look at your face we have internal and external lines. Let me show you how we can work on this to your advantage.” ― Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
- “Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.” ― Karl Lagerfeld
- “Our assholes will be clean but we must never wash our hands. Our immune systems will be strengthened by our being dirty. Not filthy. Just mildly grimy. Filthy fingernails have always been a favorite fashion accessory of mine. Especially when you place your hands in the prayer positions. Matter of fact, I urge all my followers to forgo nail polish permanently and replace it with expertly applied soot. The nonexistent gods above will ignore our prayers better this way.” ― John Waters, Role Models
- “God values Christian character, which shines in positive, outward conduct. Fashion your heart after Jesus.” ― Elizabeth George, Walking with the Women of the Bible: A Devotional Journey Through God’s Word
- “A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement” ― Jess C Scott
- “No one looks or feels attractive when angry.” ― Allan Lokos, Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
- “I cleaned the shit off my pink high-tops and drove home, stopping for an espresso at the coffeehouse across from the college. Men and women were hunched over copies of Jean Paul Sartre and writing in their journals. Most wore the thin-rimmed tortoiseshell glasses favored by intellectuals. Their clothes were faded to a precisely fashionable degree; you can buy them that way from catalogs now, new clothes processed to look old. The intellectuals looked at me in my overalls the way such people inevitably look at farmers. I dumped a lot of sugar in my espresso and sipped it delicately at a corner table near the door. I looked at them the way farmers look at intellectuals.” ― Mary Rose O’Reilley
- “When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.” ― Karl Lagerfeld
- “We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.” ― Karl Lagerfeld
- “Right/Wrong Things To Say To A Client About Foundation GarmentsDon’t Say… Your body needs extra support and your current undergarments aren’t working.Do Say… One great way to look and feel good in everything you wear is to wear foundation garments that fit. Did you know that you should get a new bra every six months, or if you gain or lose weight? Let’s find some that fit you and make you feel fabulous.” ― Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
- “Simplicity speaks with splendour.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
- “He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.” ― Michelle Obama
- “Young people often ask me, is it wrong to wear bold clothes? I tell them, wear whatever you are comfortable in, it’s the character that lives, not clothes.” ― Abhijit Naskar
- “That was when I first observed a phenomenon I now call the “New York Slide”: you offer your words to try to communicate and connect with someone, but your words just hit a brick wall the person has erected to ward off human contact- the words slide down it and roll away.” ― Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
- “Whatever demon invented stiletto-heeled boots should roast in hell…” ― Cherise Sinclair, Lean on Me
- “Some wristwatches are so big that you would be adamant that they were made for the wall, if you see or saw them only after the removal of their straps.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.” ― Karl Lagerfeld
- “The beauty of the soul is wrapped in modest fashion.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
- “In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.” ― Karl Lagerfeld