Quotes About Runway Fashion

#1. 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

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

Marc Jacobs

#3. There is so much more fashion coverage online, so women today are really seeing the collections. They're a lot savvier and more aware of the discrepancies between what they see on the runway and what they end up seeing in their local shops.

Lauren Santo Domingo

#4. When it comes to Fashion Week, I'm over the too-cool-for-school runway experience with loud music in a raw space that's inconvenient for everyone.

Rodger Berman

#5. I'm embracing what I have. I'm a curvier bombshell with big boobs. I'm not high-fashion. I don't do runway. You won't see me at Fashion Week.

Charlotte McKinney

#6. Even if you fall on the runway, I wouldn't blame you. It would mean that we made a mistake in choosing you.

Ai Yazawa

#7. 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

#8. I was able to participate in New York Fashion Week and walk down the runway. I participated in a pizza contest in Canada.

Takeru Kobayashi

#9. I'm good at my job for a midwestern American. Maybe it's because people in fashion often mistake common sense for genius. I mean, some model walks down the runway in an impossible outfit, and I state the obvious ? no one is going to wear that ? and people are like, you're brilliant!.

David Wolfe

#10. You know I am given to antiquarian and genealogical pursuits. An old family letter is a delight to my eyes. I can prowl in old trunks of letters by the day with undiminished zest.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#11. A wise friend once told me, 'Don't wear what fashion designers tell you to wear. Wear what _they_ wear.' His point being that most designers, no matter what they throw onto the runway, favor simple, flattering pieces for themselves.

Tina Fey

#12. Fashion is what people wear not only what you see on the Runway

Karl Lagerfeld

#13. Do not see yourself as a body of clay, see yourself as a mirror reflecting the divine beauty.

Rumi

#14. Fashion is constantly changing from decade to decade, but I don't see a change in how many black faces I see on the runway, and it's something we should talk about because it's a problem.

Jessica White

#15. Nobody can solve debt problems like me.

Donald Trump

#16. I do enjoy fashion - a lot of runway clothes are pretty unwearable, but if moderated, the trends can be worn by just about anyone.

Jane Asher

#17. Everyday is a fashion show and the world is the runway

Coco Chanel

#18. One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!

Zendaya

#19. A runway is spectacle. It's only fashion when a woman puts it on.

Oscar De La Renta

#20. Everybody hangs out with everybody, which is very strange for a cast this large and this young. We're all cool and down to earth and not caught up in this maniacal business at all ... Everybody really, really likes everybody else.

Lizzy Caplan

#21. The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#22. My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman.

Loni Anderson

#23. I love fashion and appreciate it so much, and I feel like it's moving artwork going down a runway.

Brittany Snow

#24. I've always done the style that I loved, so I didn't mind sending an old pair of jeans down the runway. It's about that style. It's not Hedi Slimane. You know, I'm not all that familiar with his thing-I really don't look. I certainly know who he is.

Hedi Slimane

#25. 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

#26. I want to be the Joan of Arc of fashion. I want to be the link between the runway and the real woman.

Carine Roitfeld

#27. Never,ever confuse what happens on a runway with fashion. A runway is spectacle. It's only fashion when a woman puts it on. Being well dressed hasn't much to do with having good clothes. It's a question of good balance and good common sense.

Oscar De La Renta

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

Tinie Tempah

#29. You don't learn style from watching people on a runway. Fashion happens every morning when you wake up.

Shalom Harlow

#30. Sometimes I feel like what's hard for fashion designers to do is take looks from off the runway and actually put it into existence, into reality. That's really the hard part.

ASAP Rocky

#31. I'll be truly happy when we're not counting the number of ethnically diverse models on a fashion runway or campaign, when having a representation of the entire human race is the norm and not an exception.

Iman