Vionnet Quotes

#1. I have always been attracted to clothes designed by women. Coco Chanel, Vionnet, Norma Kamali, Donna Karan. They have a little more - how do I put it? - understanding.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#2. Insofar as one can talk of a Vionnet school, it comes mostly from my having been an enemy of fashion. There is something superficial and volatile about the seasonal and elusive whims of fashion which offends my sense of beauty.

Madeleine Vionnet

#3. The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development.

Frederick Jackson Turner

#4. She knew the way of things. She knew if
you weren't always stepping lightly as a bird the whole
world came apart to crush you. Like a house of cards.
Like a bottle against stones. Like a wrist pinned hard
beneath a hand with the hot breath smell of want and
wine. . . .

Patrick Rothfuss

#5. Downhill. Thoughts of suicide to stop it all now while I am still in control and aware of the world around me. But then I think of Charlie waiting at the window. His life is not mine to throw away. I've just burrowed it for a while, and now I'm being asked to return it.

Daniel Keyes

#6. The couturier should be a geometrician, for the human body makes
geometrical figures to which the materials should correspond.

Madeleine Vionnet

#7. The dress must not hang on the body but follow its lines. When a woman smiles the dress must smile with her.

Madeleine Vionnet

#8. When a woman smiles,then her dress should smile to

Madeleine Vionnet

#9. Taste is the feeling that permits one to tell the difference between what is beautiful and what is merely spectacular.

Madeleine Vionnet

#10. To understand why dictators fall, it helps to recognise factors that produce a perfect anti-dictatorial storm. Barring missteps such as those that led to Gaddafi's undoing, a dictator's survival can be at risk because of newness in office, poor health, or old age combined with economic trouble.

Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

#11. When it was published in 1932, Angaaray (literally, 'burning coals', but also carries the same sense as 'firebrands') produced a firestorm.

Snehal Shingavi

#12. It is a retrogression when human beings begin to insist on uniform, on one-mindedness, on conditioning their offspring so that all their reactions are automatic.

Louis MacNeice

#13. If a woman smiles, her dress must also smile.

Madeleine Vionnet

#14. I only like decoration if it plays second to the architecture of a dress,

Madeleine Vionnet

#15. You'd never know it from reading the rest of the Native writers, but Indians actually grew up with American pop culture.

Sherman Alexie

#16. Until you pray, God cannot work.

Joyce Meyer