Quotes About Fashion Shows

#1. I get invited to premieres, and I've been to a few fashion shows and stuff, but I always get really bored. I feel quite awkward. You have to wear something by them, and it all feels like, 'Why am I doing free advertising for you?'

Bat For Lashes

#2. In the movies Paris is designed as a backdrop for only three things
love, fashion shows, and revolution.

Jeanine Basinger

#3. I bet any Sunday could be made as popular at church as Easter is if you made 'em fashion shows too. The audience is so busy looking at each other that the preacher just as well recite Gunga Din.

Will Rogers

#4. The main thing I love about street photography is that you find the answers you don't see at the fashion shows. You find information for readers so they can visualize themselves.

Bill Cunningham

#5. I love clothes, but really I don't have that much to say about skirts. Before I was writing, I went to fashion shows only when the designer was a good friend and I was there to show support.

Padma Lakshmi

#6. I've spent some time working with a non-Italian designer; I've been helping him organize fashion shows, the advertising, also helping with the creative part. But the great part about this work is that I am no one!

Allegra Versace

#7. I actually started modeling in Ethiopia, because that's where I grew up, and I started out by just doing little fashion shows for school, and I liked it so much that I started pursuing it.

Liya Kebede

#8. I enjoy doing fashion shows and transforming myself into different looks for photo shoots.

Tyra Banks

#9. A lot of the things I hold onto have memories attached to them. Bags, shoes and jewelry that were given to me from photo shoots and fashion shows throughout my career.

Kimora Lee Simmons

#10. I don't look at fashion shows on the internet because it's too flat.

Stefano Gabbana

#11. We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore.

Emily Dickinson

#12. It might shock you, but I haven't been to that many fashion shows, and I'd never done a commissioned piece for a fashion house.

Mike D

#13. I like very much to put on fashion shows.

Raf Simons

#14. Fashion shows used to be more crazy. Now they've become a bit too serious.

Carine Roitfeld

#15. Fashion shows are glamorous for 20 minutes.

Alek Wek

#16. 'Vanity Fair' caught me at a very exciting time in my life filled with night clubs, international fashion shows, celebrities and lots of cash to go around. Sometimes things just fall into place. 'Vanity Fair' was one of those things.

Jeremy Jackson

#17. I'm also influenced by all the places I've traveled since then: I've been to Hollywood and great fashion shows and seen the world. I have a different perspective, and I mix that up.

Jennifer Lopez

#18. I was in the fashion shows in Milan; I was seventeen, I was doing like 100 shows. People were asking, 'How does it feel to be the model of the moment?' It was hard for me to answer as myself. I barely spoke English.

Gisele Bundchen

#19. You can watch Chanel fashion shows and watch the news. Fortunately you don't have to choose. I always vote, I go to rallies, but I also go to fashion shows.

Maiwenn

#20. I'm so happy that I finished college. Going into this crazy vortex of scrutiny is tough. If I was younger than I was now and I was going to fashion shows, I might have this distorted sense of self. I might rely on those cameras. Because when I was 18, I was half-baked.

Allison Williams

#21. I don't do 'Image' magazine or high-fashion shows.

Georgia Salpa

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

David Hallberg

#23. I have always been too round to do fashion shows.

Heidi Klum

#24. While being the husband of uberstylist Rachel Zoe lets me waltz confidently into fashion shows with Rachel by my side, the VIP treatment usually stops there.

Rodger Berman

#25. Fashion shows are really my way of communication.

Dries Van Noten

#26. All this size 0! A bit ridiculous. There's something creepy about fashion shows. The models look like they're going to be tortured. They do this strange pony walk; their heels are so high, they can hardly walk. Creepy!

Jerry Hall

#27. I very rarely watch my own fashion shows, but the makeup for my Fall 2011 show was just brilliant.

Vivienne Westwood

#28. I hate going to fashion shows. I find them boring.

Chloe Sevigny

#29. I love presentations more than fashion shows. I love speaking to people and walking them through the collection.

Christian Cota

#30. I've never seen most of the fashion reality shows. The only one I've seen is 'Project Runway,' which is great, but I don't watch television.

Kelly Wearstler

#31. I prefer to think of the creation or construction of happiness, because research shows that it's in our power to fashion it for ourselves.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

#32. People like to stir up the fashion vs. costume world, and I think what they mean by 'too costumey' is that it's too much, or not real enough for everyday wear. You couldn't say that about John Galliano's shows, right? I mean, they're awesome, and they're total costume.

Colleen Atwood

#33. Fashion Week is surprisingly very short. At least the actual runway shows are.

Tinie Tempah

#34. When I went to Fashion Week, I was very disappointed by how few women of color were in those shows. I do speak to the younger girls, and I hear them when they say they're not getting the big contracts or into the big shows.

Beverly Johnson

#35. If there is one rule for dressing, for fashion, it's pretty much the same rule as for everything else in life: Don't go against yourself, don't go against your own nature. It's only going to show.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#36. I became obsessed watching fashion TV shows when I was a teenager and recognized that I had the height and body frame. I especially became hooked when I saw on 'E! True Hollywood Story' how much a model can make and how I can achieve a better living for my family and me.

Joan Smalls

#37. I love fashion. I like dressing how I feel, and my music shows how I feel - they go hand in hand. My performance style is pretty much the same as my everyday style.

Banks

#38. People showed me this way of dealing with music, writing songs, thinking about music and shows and our community and the fact that it doesn't have to be about being popular or fashion or making money.

Chuck Ragan

#39. My work is more about trying to ask good questions and not trying to come up with big shows. Every fashion company is doing that, every car company is doing that.

Laurie Anderson

#40. A lot of consumers actively enjoy advertising, especially fashion print ads and clever TV commercials. The nostalgic cable channel TVLand features not only vintage shows but also vintage commercials.

Virginia Postrel

#41. A fashion photographer is nothing without clothes and hair and makeup. And when I speak to other photographers, a lot of them can't reference a picture by the designer. Me, I say, 'The Balenciaga.' And I go to the shows. I feel like it's my business.

Mario Testino

#42. I was never a big networker, but I was a spin doctor, all those shock shows, that's how I got my first backers. But fashion's a scary industry to be in, especially if you've not grown up with it.

Alexander McQueen

#43. You know One Direction do a lot of up tempo songs, but when they did that Ed Sheeran song 'Little Things,' that was probably their biggest song off their last album, so it shows you that a ballad never goes out of fashion.

Shane Filan

#44. I used to go to a lot of Pam Hogg shows. The thing about London Fashion Week is that, generally, we're on tour and traveling around, so it's very rare that I actually catch it. I like to go to Burberry because I know a few girls who work there. I kind of follow friends.

Alison Mosshart

#45. I used to watch some of the reality shows about models, and then, weirdly, now I try to incorporate into my fashion shoots the skills I learnt from watching those shows. It's like, thanks Tyra, 'cause you've given me, like, all the cool tips. Like how to smile with your eyes.

Rebel Wilson

#46. The ultimate art form of fashion is couture. I completely geek out when it comes to couture. It shows fashion as it used to be. I don't know how many people can actually afford the clothes, but in a way, that's beside the point.

Diane Kruger

#47. Our girl is someone who knows the trends before they happen and look online immediately when shows are happening. They love fashion so much, so they're thrilled they get to be a part of it all.

Aslaug Magnusdottir

#48. This is why Sonja Lyubomirsky, a leader in the scientific study of well-being, has written that she prefers the phrase "creation or construction of happiness" to the more popular "pursuit," since "research shows that it's in our power to fashion it for ourselves."13

Shawn Achor

#49. When Fashion Week ends, I miss the shows and the shot of adrenaline that comes with them. Each day is a new show, a new fitting, and you make new friends. Every season you get to know the other girls a little better.

Magdalena Frackowiak

#50. Now that I work as a professional model, I advise people to stay away from any television shows. It's a waste of your time; it's just entertainment. It's not the fashion that we now know.

Fatima Siad

#51. She spent the entire day at the house, debating the issue with herself. First, she watched TV. British television seemed to consist mostly of makeover shows. Garden makeovers. Fashion makeovers. House makeovers. Everything relating to change. It seemed like a hint. Change something. Make a move. She

Maureen Johnson

#52. Fashion is a very stressful place to work because of the demands of doing the shows - no one expects a writer to produce two books a year on the dot - but it's also a very toxic place to work.

John Galliano

#53. I don't see myself as a pure fashion designer sending dress after dress down the runway but about wanting those watching my shows to aspire to a certain lifestyle.

Matthew Williamson

#54. It is London fashion week, and once again I haven't been invited to any shows. This is upsetting given my well-known love of fashion, or, as I think of it, playing with the dressing-up box.

Arthur Smith

#55. Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place. It's like voodoo; we don't want things that are soaked in blood, sweat, and tears. I adore life, and I'm very easygoing - and it shows in my work.

Christian Louboutin

#56. I hate high fashion. I hate that we reward people for being genetic freaks. You hear the guys announcing the runway shows saying, 'A pretty face is your best asset this season.' And what? Ugly girls had a free ride last year?

Janeane Garofalo