Blass Quotes

#1. I came from Bill Blass, where it was a well-oiled machine and if I said I needed a fabric, it was done. Now, I have to budget everything. I have to take on the role not just as a designer but a business. But I'm a glass half-full kind of guy.

Prabal Gurung

#2. My dogs.
Bill Blass, after being asked "Who or what is the greatest love of your life?" by Vanity Fair magazine

Bill Blass

#3. Fashion can be bought by anybody; style takes discernment, it has to do with individuality.

Bill Blass

#4. Reading has given me more satisfaction than anything else.

Bill Blass

#5. There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil
improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?"
"Are you a young lady?"
"I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated.

Charlotte Bronte

#6. Dior really was a savior. He almost single-handedly revived women's interest in clothes.

Bill Blass

#7. I knelt to pick up the pages of my journal, my ugly secrets, scattered across the floor. This wasn't the person that Sean married. What did he think of me now?
- WITNESS

Caroline Mitchell

#8. Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.

Bill Blass

#9. The more Viola forgot her mother, the more she missed her.

Kate Atkinson

#10. Table 3.2 Components of Clinical Whole Blood, Plasma, and Serum Matrices

Amitava Dasgupta

#11. Style is primarily a matter of instinct.

Bill Blass

#12. From the fear and constriction that's sort of always pulling us back and keeping us in old modalities, I feel like any expansive act of kindness, thoughtfulness, and generosity, helps tip the scale toward a more conscious, liberated existence for everyone.

Bellamy Young

#13. Each individual piece is a calculated attempt to entice women to add to their wardrobe.

Bill Blass

#14. When in doubt, wear red.

Bill Blass

#15. Simplicity is the soul of modern elegance.

Bill Blass

#16. We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions. No woman can be well dressed unless she is comfortable in what she is wearing.

Bill Blass

#17. Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don't have a change, you're bored. It's the same with fashion, you know. And that, I suppose, is what style is about.

Bill Blass

#18. Enjoyment belongs to those who know things halfway.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#19. To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#20. If I really want inner peace in my life, then I must not busy myself with what other people do and say.

Sri Chinmoy

#21. Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.

Bill Blass