Fashion World Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.

Karl Lagerfeld

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Life is a fashion show, the world is your runway.

Marc Jacobs

#7. The world wants disarmament, the world needs disarmament. We have it in our power to help fashion future history.

Arthur Henderson

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. Everyone tries to compare cooks to rock stars. I see more comparisons to the fashion world.

David Chang

#13. I just think people should invest in the world. Don't invest in fashion, but invest in the world.

Vivienne Westwood

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. The fashion world has always been part of my life.

Willa Holland

#20. 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

#21. 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.

#22. Los Angeles fashion is the Starbucks of the modeling world.

Janice Dickinson

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.

Jean De La Fontaine

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. When you don't understand the fashion world you're just grateful you get to wear good clothes.

Anton Yelchin

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. New York City is the most important location in the world ... it is the center for fashion, culture and finance.

Jared Kushner

#41. I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.

Bette Midler

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. With all fashion, what we do is play at being somebody else. We play at inhabiting another kind of world.

Brian Eno

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. 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

#48. I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.

Macklemore

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. Barcelona is one of my favourite cities in the world. The fashion and people are just so effortlessly cool.

Leigh Lezark

#52. 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

#53. 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

#54. Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.

Diana Vreeland

#55. I'm not one who goes to a lot of fashion shows or tries to infiltrate that world, really.

David Hallberg

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. 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

#62. 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

#63. 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

#64. 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

#65. Fashion is a strange world sometimes. Amazing, but strange.

Solange Knowles

#66. I don't consider [my] photographs fashion photographs. The photographs were for fashion, but at the same time they had an ulterior motive, something more to do with the world in general.

Deborah Turbeville

#67. Everything returns and renews itself. The difference now is that the rate of these returns has increased, in both space and time, in an unheard-of fashion. Now my thoughts can circle the globe in minutes. Entire passages of world history are played out in a couple of years.

Frigyes Karinthy

#68. Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world

Alison Lurie

#69. I'm always looking for a cover subject that reflects the magazine, an interest in fashion, in culture, in society. We're trying to bring the world into the pages of 'Vogue.' We do that by tapping into the zeitgeists with our cover subjects.

Anna Wintour

#70. Britain has the most creative, dynamic and nimble fashion industry in the world.

Natalie Massenet

#71. For me personally, there's too much fashion around in this world.

Dries Van Noten

#72. I saw my potential as artistic director, which is very different from designer. Fashion companies might have $200 million to $300 million in annual sales - Hugo Boss has €2.5 billion. I have to create a world that is believable and also relevant in 7,000 sales points around the world.

Jason Wu

#73. You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.

Colley Cibber

#74. The world needs some excitement from fashion.

Christian Lacroix

#75. When this world is full of fashion, be unique by reflecting your own style.

Debasish Mridha

#76. 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

#77. 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

#78. I love New York, it's always been my home. It has everything - music, fashion, entertainment, impressive buildings, huge parks, street cafes. And it's very international, with people from all over the world.

Sean Combs

#79. I was spoiled when I worked in the magazine world. Fashion closets are heaven and I seem to model my organization after a fashion closet.

Tracee Ellis Ross

#80. 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

#81. I think the world is really small today, and fashion, from that end of it, it's instantaneous everywhere.

Paul Weller

#82. The Mercedes-Benz Fashion Force car is a statement about New York being one of the greatest fashion capitals of the world and the confident approach to individualistic style that people strive to explore throughout this amazing city.

Brad Goreski

#83. Many stock options in the corporate world have worked in exactly that fashion: they have gained in value simply because management retained earnings, not because it did well with the capital in its hands.

Warren Buffett

#84. My fashion is about the urban woman in the year 3000. I think about obscure, weird things and try to create a world around them.

Lady Gaga

#85. For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.

Madhur Bhandarkar

#86. Fashion is fun, ridiculously fun. But it's base and it's wrong. You're not doing anything good for the world. You're just saying, 'Buy it, buy it, buy it.'

Waris Dirie

#87. 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

#88. 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

#89. It's very dangerous, making your happiness based on success and fashion. I know the media cares about all that, but I try to ignore that world anyway.

Felix Buxton

#90. The world is changing and so is fashion.

Giorgio Armani

#91. 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

#92. In most cases I start off with a sketch. But I'm also thinking about real images: out of National Geographic, out of fashion magazines, out of The Economist, out of Time. I'm making a sketch, but I'm using the existing images that have been put out in the world.

Wangechi Mutu

#93. God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.

Immanuel Kant

#94. Something different is disclosed in the drunkenness of passion: the landscape of the body ... These landscapes are traversed by paths which lead sexuality into the world of the inorganic. Fashion itself is only another medium enticing it still more deeply into the universe of matter.

Walter Benjamin

#95. People in fashion treat it as a business ... I guess Hollywood is a business, too, but you talk about story: you talk about a more artistic world than in fashion.

Stephanie Szostak

#96. Fashion is a very particular world, as you know.

Heidi Klum

#97. Folks that has brought up children know that there's no hard and fast method in the world that'll suit every child. But them as never have think it's all as plain and easy as Rule of Three - just set your three terms down so fashion, and the sum'll work out correct.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

#98. Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.

Moshe Safdie

#99. We are but a day in this world, and in that day the fashion is changed a thousand times: all seek liberty, yet all deprive themselves of it.

Dante Alighieri

#100. 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