Quotes About Fashion and Clothes

[MJRH]

"When sitting in a shabby carriage, one can actually put on such airs that the whole carriage looks good, and the horse too." -Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

[safeword123]

"Fashion today is all about the product. With all the pre-collections and the shows that are just marketing exercises, it has turned into a system. For an old romantic like me, this is hurting a little bit. That’s why I try to do things my way. I like to have happy people around me, and it’s for these people that I create my collections. Fashion should never be too dark or too gloomy: it should evoke feelings of joy. I believe in clothes as tools for self-expression. The biggest compliment is if I see someone on the street wearing something I have created in a way I would never have imagined. Clothes should always tell something of the person that wears them – and very little of the designer who made them."

- Dries Van Noten

[MJRH]

^that quote's a great summary of Dries' spirit

"For a tradition to remain alive, we owe it both respect and disobedience." -Olga Berluti



...if that's disobedience, i want more of it

[gall]

“In my experience most emotional movements coincide with the start of something, like the moment I get an idea and just know it is going to work. As soon as I discovered the power clothes have, the impact they can have on your feelings, your identity, and self-image, I decided to make a career of it. The study of how clothes contain and convey emotion was the starting point for my work and is still its essence.” -Ann Demeulemeester

[Faust]

Indeed.

[Atom]

"I have only one style, and will have it, and repeat myself until I'm gone, but this style is my own."

Hedi Slimane
(Anthology Of A Decade / HUGE, April 2011)

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[stephlinn]

"A beautiful design makes a beautiful ruin"
-Ann Demeulemeester

[safeword123]

Q: You don’t think they (fast fashion) copy other designers?
A: Listen, everyone copies.

- Azzedine Alaïa

Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy, you will find yourself.

- Yohji Yamamoto

[messenoire]

""Black is not sad. Bright colors are what depresses me. They’re so … empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet? In a bright yellow jacket? Probably not." -ann demeulemeester

[galia]

This is funny because 19th century poets (I'm assuming this is what she's referring to) did not dress in black so much. Outwear maybe, but there were a lot of colourful cravats and vests, au minimum. This is a vision of poets as reimagined by the punks/new wave/goths

[shah]

"I mean no wonder everyone else thinks fashion is for vacuous retards, hell they're probably right."

- Fuuma le philosophe rageur

[Alseal]

“Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts”
― Jim Morrison

[safeword123]

''I'm trying to make it modern, to advance my thinking,'' she said. Even details like neckties. She examined hundreds to figure out what a Jil Sander tie should be. ''My poor brother,'' she said. ''He has 200 ties from me. For me, a tie is like a miniskirt. I never understand that piece.''

July, 1997

[Alseal]

"The clothes held considerably less value than a box of Saint Laurent labels. Without the label attached to them, Mr. Slimane’s grunge dresses wouldn’t attract interest — because they’re not special. But a box of labels is worth a million..." - Cathy Horyn

[safeword123]

Q. We’re seeing a lot of punk on the runways this season. What do you think?

A. I don’t follow fashion. I really don’t. I’ve never been interested in it. I think punk has entered into the iconography of fashion. In 1970 or 1969, the shop we have, Worlds End at 430 Kings Road, that was Mr Freedom. I went in there and bought a pair of tight leopard-printed velvet trousers. I had never seen anything like it. It was the most amazing thing. Punk says rebellion. Now every child has seen this.

Vivienne Westwood: At 71, Still Not Done Provoking, Eric Wilson for NYT