Top 100 Fashion World Quotes
#1. I think that we are in a very strange time, when everybody is thinking about what is going to happen, and everybody is kind of cleaning house a little bit. In the fashion world, we are doing something similar. We are taking the fake out and being a little bit more real and simple.
Alber Elbaz
#2. Being part of the fashion world, I'm definitely not a fashion victim. If the style that's going on at that moment suits me, I might integrate it slightly into my look. I'm someone with my own unique style.
Talisa Soto
#3. The attention from the fashion world is something that I didn't expect. I've shot with Bruce Weber and met Karl Lagerfeld. Having that kind of attention is really exciting.
Emily Ratajkowski
#4. Everyone tries to compare cooks to rock stars. I see more comparisons to the fashion world.
David Chang
#5. I have always worked a bit with fashion people. I worked with Issey Miyake for a while, then Dolce & Gabbana; now we're working with Valentino. It's fine. The fashion world is a fairly weird world, but there are good people in it. It's weird because their timetables are unbearable.
David Chipperfield
#6. The fashion world has always been part of my life.
Willa Holland
#7. I have the opportunity to learn about the fashion world, and I appreciate it as an art form ... But I never want it to take over my acting.
Lupita Nyong'o
#8. As for the fashion world, the one thing I respect is its shallowness: it's so deep - it's so serious. It can be hard to get that kind of shallowness because of its depth and seriousness.
Nikki S. Lee
#9. When you don't understand the fashion world you're just grateful you get to wear good clothes.
Anton Yelchin
#10. The Westway, the old strip club on Clarkson Street, is still there, but today it's owned by a hipster restaurant entrepreneur who caters to the ironic cultural lifestylers, more fashion world than art, people who are "cool" because they live in New York.
Kim Gordon
#11. Before I really became interested in fashion, all I would look at in a fashion magazine was the ads. It only dawned on me recently that just looking at the ads really doesn't teach you everything you need to know about the fashion world.
Mark Indelicato
#12. I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.
Macklemore
#13. We always try to reinterpret sport in an innovative, fashionable way, and when we do fashion, we're always trying to bring our sports heritage into the fashion world.
Jochen Zeitz
#14. I was thrown into the fashion world, dating models - and you'd read about me dating a new starlet every month. That's just where my life was. But I've grown up a lot.
Stephen Dorff
#15. I used to live in New York, and I have friends that work in the fashion world, and I feel like I had an ear to the ground there.
Gillian Jacobs
#16. I'm the king of designer fashion, Looking stylish is my passion. Ice Blue's the name of my fashion line, The designs are fabulous and they're all mine! Some people think my clothes are odd, But I will get the fashion world's nod.
Daisy Meadows
#17. I never was interested in being part of the fashion world - I just wanted to design shoes. I didn't even know 'Vogue' existed when I was growing up. 'Vogue,' what is that?'
Christian Louboutin
#18. I've been designing my own pieces for a long time. My mother's a jewelry designer, so we knew at some point we were going to do a line and dive into the fashion world.
Christian Serratos
#19. I don't like the fashion world. It's too nasty, too rip-off, too hard. And now it's all Gucci and Prada; it's very difficult to make your own business.
Anita Pallenberg
#20. If you took some of the behavior that you see in the fashion world and put it anywhere else, it would just be embarrassing.
Alice Temperley
#21. Alexander McQueen's heartbreakingly premature death, at the height of his creativity and influence, has robbed the fashion world of a soaring and unique talent.
Hamish Bowles
#22. It is cool to see that the fashion world has really taken to 'Instagram,' but, again, it is one of the many examples of many communities, whether you are a chef, a skateboarder, a surfer, a skier.
Kevin Systrom
#23. I learned from working in the fashion world that if I have a day when I feel slapped in the face, or if someone has been mean, I just have to get back up and it will be another day. I think about what I'm grateful for. I look at my kids and my husband and think, Wow, I'm a really lucky person.
Heidi Klum
#24. There's something about the fashion world that I like, which is, I see a lot of the designers really have affection for other designers.
Harvey Weinstein
#25. I'm definitely lucky to have been included in some of the perks of my brother's connections in the fashion world. It's helpful considering I'm still like a five-year-old when it comes to shopping.
Skylar Astin
#26. The fashion world is very active and generous, despite the fact that it is not very well respected - or at least not as much as it should be.
Miuccia Prada
#27. As I said many times, the fashion world, its system, can be disturbing.
Azzedine Alaia
#28. In the fashion world, I was always an outsider, but I made people look good, so I had a career.
David LaChapelle
#29. I feel like I have become a living fossil in the fashion world. Without even noticing it, in my own collection I have moved away from the street style.
Yohji Yamamoto
#30. I started getting orders from some of the leading stores Fred Segal, Bergdorf Goodman. I realized then that my bags were being noticed by the fashion world.
Kate Spade
#31. The fashion world feels more normal to me when I'm with them.
Kate Bosworth
#32. Timberland is an all-American brand focused on work, utility and the outdoors, that managed to find a place in the fashion world as well
Pharrell Williams
#33. I'm not avoiding your question on my relationship to the fashion world or my work being shown in a fashion setting. My work's most often seen in the streets on billboards. I don't know if it being seen in a shop is any much different.
Robert Montgomery
#34. Stylistically, I love make-up. I love doing my own make-up and stuff, but clothes-wise, I actually didn't ever really care. Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.
Lana Del Rey
#35. I think sometimes the fashion world isn't even about clothes anymore; it's about this 'in' crowd, and I'm not into that.
Nicki Minaj
#36. You can't just come from Kansas, go into fashion and be all naive. The fashion world is very different to where I'm from.
Lindsey Wixson
#37. I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.
Kevyn Aucoin
#38. I love the fashion world. I love clothes. I love style.
Kaley Cuoco
#39. The fashion world is much more ephemeral than the film industry and moves at a faster pace, and it's got even more frenetic since the Nineties; more paparazzi hanging about and it seems to me there are even more fashion magazines.
Richard E. Grant
#40. I've spent more than two decades speaking to women through magazines. What's so exciting about Yahoo is that I can inspire and connect with hundreds of millions more women, and bring them the magic of the fashion world in ways they haven't yet experienced.
Joe Zee
#41. I've made clothes my whole life, but I was just naive about the fashion world. But I think it's successful because I've been really involved. Picking the samples, inspirations, color palette.
Gwen Stefani
#42. Alexander McQueen ... The fashion world has not only lost an icon but we have also lost a very special friend.
Donatella Versace
#43. In the fashion world if you're successful, everyone loves you, and you have available every service. It's hard to walk away, except it wasn't hard for me. I had my mind completely made up.
Helmut Lang
#44. I'm a tall woman. At work, that means a lot of my co-stars have to stand next to me on apple crates. But apparently, my height bodes well in the fashion world.
Taylor Schilling
#45. The fashion world has been great. We started Apple Bottoms about seven years ago; it's interesting to be able to create something from your perspective, for your fans and support. It's a little different for me, because about 70% of my fans are females.
Nelly
#46. The fashion world doesn't know the word 'stop,' so you have to make sure there are sublime moments every day.
Raf Simons
#47. I don't have so many things in the fashion world that interest me. It's probably because I am so deeply into it. Often when you go very deep into something, you also discover what it's about, and you understand it better. With the art world, I still have a lot of curiosity.
Raf Simons
#49. While it's nice to appreciate the fashion world ... what makes you happy are real relationships and the moments you share with loved ones.
Miranda Kerr
#50. Nowadays New-York is not the exciting place it used to be. It still has great energy; I still put my finger in the socket. But it doesn't feel alive, cracking with that synergy between the art world and music world and fashion world that was happening in the 80s. A lot of people died.
Madonna Ciccone
#51. During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or other, from mainland Europe, and the solutions from outside it.
Margaret Thatcher
#52. The first time I was pregnant, Kanye and I were dating, and I was just being introduced to the world of fashion. I wanted to work with a bunch of different stylists, and when you work with a new stylist, everyone wants to possess your look.
Kim Kardashian
#53. We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.
Karl Lagerfeld
#54. Some may think fashion is frivolous, but the way I see it, when you dress well, you add beauty to the world. And there's nothing wrong with that, right?
Laura Harring
#55. Life is a fashion show, the world is your runway.
Marc Jacobs
#56. The world wants disarmament, the world needs disarmament. We have it in our power to help fashion future history.
Arthur Henderson
#57. Fashion and music have always played off each other and certainly do for me; I love both so much. But there are definitely those moments when you're playing the right song at the right time in the right place, and it feels like the best job in the world.
Harley Viera-Newton
#58. 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
#59. I just think people should invest in the world. Don't invest in fashion, but invest in the world.
Vivienne Westwood
#60. When I had my daughter, my priorities shifted. Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed and surrounded by people that are self-absorbed.
Carolyn Murphy
#61. I am especially grateful that I have been able to keep my own style over the decades, in spite of the many changes that have taken place in the world of fashion and in its business.
Valentino Garavani
#62. I love watching Rihanna in fashion. I like to see her take chances and risks. I like seeing Naomi Campbell in the forefront. They're both women who stand out and use their bodies as canvases to introduce this functional art to the world. They carry it in a way that is very inspiring.
Erykah Badu
#63. His nickname through all the wards was ' Little Friend of all the World'; and very often, being lithe and inconspicuous, he executed commissions by night on the crowded housetops for sleek and shiny young men of fashion. It was intrigue, of course.
Rudyard Kipling
#64. You cannot live your life in the elitist world of fashion and not step out or you're disconnected. You have to realize that fashion is not the endgame.
Andre Leon Talley
#65. I certainly don't follow fashion. I think fashion, as far as the industry and the whole world that surrounds it, is quite vile, and I'm repelled by it.
Mika.
#66. Los Angeles fashion is the Starbucks of the modeling world.
Janice Dickinson
#67. London is the world's Garden Capital - as Los Angeles is its film capital, Paris its fashion capital and Bogata its narcotics capital.
Tom Turner
#68. The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity when contrasted with a finer intelligence. They appear but as the fashions of past days,
mere courtliness, knee-buckles and small- clothes, out of date.
Henry David Thoreau
#69. The art world has become the R&D department for so much fashion and music, so knock-offs are getting better and better.
Marco Brambilla
#70. It's time to give back; you know, I've lived in this beautiful world of fashion for so long, and it's time to really get my hands dirty and get in the trenches and see the world for what it really is.
Karen Elson
#71. All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.
Jean De La Fontaine
#72. One of the most fascinating things about the world of fashion is that practically no one knows who inhabits it or why it exists. There are a few people who know how it works, but they won't tell.
Elizabeth Hawes
#73. We must agree on what matters: kissing in public places, bacon sandwiches, disagreement, cutting-edge fashion, literature, generosity, water, a more equitable distribution of the world's resources, movies, music, freedom of thought, beauty, love.
Salman Rushdie
#74. Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion? Professional sports, perhaps. Grown men swatting little balls, while the rest of the world pays money to applaud.
Michael Crichton
#75. Fashion is merely a saying: I belong to your world. I'm wearing the same uniform as your army, so don't shoot.
Paulo Coelho
#76. Sometimes I get it right and I sometimes I get it wrong. But fashion is all about having fun. I think fashion has been hijacked by the fashion industry creating rules on what one should wear and I feel like breaking the mold and seeing that the world won't crumble.
Helena Bonham Carter
#77. I think of many people and no one as a muse. I love the way Sofia looks always, and I love the way Kim looks always. Fashion may be part of their world, but it's not their whole life. It's not everything.
Marc Jacobs
#78. A lot of my peers don't think about collaborating the way I do. My approach is to imagine my world. The Jason Wu woman isn't just floating around in a beautiful dress. I like to know where she's going, what she likes. I'm not just in the fashion business. I'm in the lifestyle business.
Jason Wu
#79. Fashion is, perhaps by necessity, in a world of its own - one that only rarely overlaps with anything resembling real life. This fantasy and exoticism is part of its appeal, of course.
Vince Aletti
#80. No person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labor so to bring into the world.
Alice Walker
#81. New York City is the most important location in the world ... it is the center for fashion, culture and finance.
Jared Kushner
#82. I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.
Bette Midler
#83. We use fashion for status and to beautify and there's nothing wrong with that, but when it becomes completely unbalanced, then you're living a decadent life. And when that happens on a global scale, you're living in a decadent world.
David LaChapelle
#84. With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.
Brian Eno
#85. Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity.
Christian Audigier
#86. My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision and police, baffled by fashion and spectacle, city dwellers can distinguish neither the sources of their existence nor the consequences.
James Buchan
#87. I love Prada. Not so much the clothes, which are for malnourished thirteen-year-olds, but I covet, with covety covetousness, the shoes and handbags. Like, I LOVE them. If I was given a choice between world peace and a Prada handbag, I'd dither. (I'm not proud of this, I'm only saying.)
Marian Keyes
#88. I imagine these men sitting in fashion control centers around the world thinking of new ways to torture women, new ways to make them wince twenty years from now when they look at old photographs of themselves.
Cristina Garcia
#89. Barcelona is one of my favourite cities in the world. The fashion and people are just so effortlessly cool.
Leigh Lezark
#90. I'm not incredibly self-conscious. I don't really feel like I walk around making fashion or my appearance the most important thing in the world. It's certainly not the way that I live my life. I'm not really sure how the magazines perceive me because I don't read them.
Jessica Alba
#91. Our international success started out first because we became the No. 1 casual wear brand in our home market of Japan. Then, we set up stores in the world's major fashion centers of New York, Paris and London.
Tadashi Yanai
#92. Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.
Diana Vreeland
#93. I'm not one who goes to a lot of fashion shows or tries to infiltrate that world, really.
David Hallberg
#94. Feminism is dead in the world. It comes from another time. I'm a feminist. I want to fight, but I don't see many people with this desire to fight for something. Women don't help each other, especially in fashion.
Donatella Versace
#95. What you wear represents you to the world, especially now, when communication between people is so fast. Fashion is a universal language that everyone understands.
Miuccia Prada
#96. I really think that creating clothes and fashion has to be a statement about how we live and where we live and what's happening in the world.
Sarah Burton
#97. 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
#98. My school is the world, and my teacher is the people. It is very important not to stay cloistered in the office if you want to create. We have to go out in society to understand how people live and dress in their real lives.
Alberta Ferretti
#99. It was my friend Frank, a writer in San Francisco, who finally set me straight. When asked about my new look he put down his fork and stared at me for a few moments. A bow tie announces to the world you can no longer get an erection.
David Sedaris
#100. I think that fashion has become such a big business and with globalization we are on new territory at this point. We are not just designing for a country we are designing for a world now.
Anna Sui
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