The New is not a fashion, it is a value.
~By Roland Barthes ~
I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet world. I'm old-fashioned, I guess.
~By Katie Holmes ~
I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening.
~By Steven Cojocaru ~
British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage.
~By Alexander McQueen ~
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
~By George Santayana ~
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.
~By Stendhal ~
I'm not that interested in fashion... When someone says that lime-green is the new black for this season, you just want to tell them to get a life.
~By Bruce Oldfield ~
You know, the fashion business is this legendary repository of young girls on their way to getting husbands. I really wanted to work.
~By Ali MacGraw ~
And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.
~By Laura Innes ~
Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I think viewers are hungry for shows in which people say something meaningful.
~By Michael Landon ~
Be not afraid of being called un-fashionable.
~By Adolf Loos ~
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
~By Harriet Beecher Stowe ~
I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion.
~By Stephen Rea ~
Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?
~By Calvin Klein ~
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.
~By Calvin Klein ~
I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.
~By Johnny Depp ~
I'm a geek who loves fashion. There's been a reinvention of the word geek. It means being passionate about anything that's under the radar or sort of frowned upon, like Comic-Con.
~By Kristen Bell ~
Bravery never goes out of fashion.
~By William Makepeace Thackeray ~
I was really stuck in the whole Farah Fawcett hairdo long after it was past being in fashion.
~By Cindy Margolis ~
You don't learn style from watching people on a runway. Fashion happens every morning when you wake up.
~By Shalom Harlow ~
But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.
~By Stephen Sprouse ~
I've always expressed my love for fashion through my music.
~By Lil' Kim ~
It appears fashionable these days, and almost politically correct, to blame hard-working immigrants, especially those from Mexico and Central America, for the social and economic ills of our state and nation.
~By Roger Mahony ~
And you know, the baby boomers are getting older, and those off the rack clothes are just not fitting right any longer, and so, tailor-made suits are coming back into fashion.
~By Amy Irving ~
I'm being invaded by fashion pundits.
~By Steven Cojocaru ~
The difference between style and fashion is quality.
~By Giorgio Armani ~
Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends.
~By Janice Dickinson ~
I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.
~By Eric Allin Cornell ~
Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up.
~By David Duchovny ~
Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.
~By Queen Marie of Romania ~
When a popular phenomenon reaches the cover of 'Time,' it is already out of fashion.
~By Richard Holloway ~
It's funny, my girlfriends think that because I am married to a fashion designer, I get all these great tips and hints about great fashion, but it's not like that at all. He never tells me what to wear.
~By Lori Loughlin ~
And we have not found any generational gap at all. If he wants to go a football game, he goes. If I want to go to a fashion show, I go. We don't have to do everything together. But we like doing most things together.
~By Joan Collins ~
Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
~By Felix Adler ~
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
~By Henry Fielding ~
Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence.
~By Meryl Streep ~
I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.
~By Thom Mayne ~
I want to do other things like more fashion campaigns.
~By Katie Price ~
Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer.
~By Johannes Tauler ~
Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things yes, I'm introducing some new music that people haven't really heard me do in quite this fashion.
~By Al Jarreau ~
For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar.
~By Marc Almond ~
Mr. Wrigley believed in this: Put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket. They don't do that today. This is the old-fashioned way I'm talking about. He carried it on to his business. Do one thing and stay with it.
~By Ernie Banks ~
Stories about Diana's fashions, about possible rows between Charles and Diana, these were meat and drink.
~By Andrew Morton ~
I think we lost a great deal of sympathy and support with the way in which the crisis was handled, most importantly I think when we appeared to be grasping for too much at one time instead of identifying our priorities in a much more responsible fashion.
~By Billy Tauzin ~
I almost resent the whole fashion thing. Good God- never wearing the same thing twice and all of those things. It's a pain in the ass.
~By Jennifer Aniston ~
When I am putting looks together, I dare myself to make something work. I always look for the most interesting silhouette or something that's a little off, but I have to figure it out. I have to make it me. I think that's the thrill in fashion.
~By Rihanna ~
Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.
~By Edmund C. Stedman ~
I'm very old-fashioned in some ways because of my father, who thought that being a public servant was an honor. Everyone must find a capacity in which they can serve, because we all benefit from society.
~By Kathleen Turner ~
It was the fashion of the time, still is, to feel that all actors are neurotic, or they would not be actors.
~By Gene Tierney ~
I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.
~By Nathan Lane ~
I liked Nicole Kidman because she is so fashionable she can do less is more. It was very, very simple, but it was so chic. Some people thought she looked washed out, I didn't at all.
~By Steven Cojocaru ~
I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent, the same as any other fashion.
~By Stanley Schmidt ~
I think I was perceived in one fashion. A video is based on a song. I think you can get glimpses of people's presence within that. There's some people you enjoy watching more than others.
~By Taylor Dane ~
Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
~By Abdullah Ahmad Badawi ~
There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to move for our civil rights to have them taken away in these kinds of fashions.
~By Dorothy Height ~
A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
~By Yves Saint Laurent ~
In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.
~By Frances E. Willard ~
Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.
~By Benoit Mandelbrot ~
To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.
~By Walter Kaufmann ~
I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.
~By Freddie Mercury ~
Situation comedies are old-fashioned - they stick to formulas. I resent their music which is old fashioned. I resent the use of a laugh track.
~By Bill Bixby ~
I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet.
~By Giorgio Armani ~
You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.
~By Neil Kinnock ~
Maybe if they all could he combined - art, rock and fashion. Those were always my favorite things.
~By Stephen Sprouse ~
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
~By Abbie Hoffman ~
I got that experience through dating dozens of men for six years after college, getting an entry level magazine job at 21, working in the fiction department at Good Housekeeping and then working as a fashion editor there as well as writing many articles for the magazine.
~By Judith Krantz ~
We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore.
~By Antonio Banderas ~
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
~By Ayn Rand ~
I don't like fashion. It's very heartless.
~By Paul Simon ~
So I went to Chicago in 1940, I think, '41, and the photographs that I made there, aside from fashion, were things that I was trying to express in a social conscious way.
~By Gordon Parks ~
The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.
~By Alan Watts ~
We are optimistic, but we are optimistic in a cautious fashion.
~By Tom Lantos ~
It's hard to go with a trend. As soon as it's out, everyone picks it up. It's important to stay true to yourself. Have fun with fashion instead of letting it dictate.
~By Estella Warren ~
Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.
~By Coco Chanel ~
But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.
~By Janice Dickinson ~
Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.
~By Loretta Young ~
And an integrated life is one where you're able to fit the different pieces of your life together in seamless fashion.
~By James Collins ~
History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion.
~By Eva Herzigova ~
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.
~By Marc Jacobs ~
I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.
~By Walt Disney ~
I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.
~By Thomas B. Macaulay ~
As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.
~By Tom Ford ~
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion.
~By Lillian Hellman ~
Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer.
~By Giorgio Armani ~
Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.
~By Marguerite Gardiner ~
I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of what scenes should look like and turn it over to the artist.
~By Harvey Pekar ~
I'm against fashionable thinking.
~By Herman Kahn ~
Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.
~By Donatella Versace ~
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.
~By Jacques Barzun ~
Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language.
~By Margaret Mahy ~
The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world.
~By Martin Lewis Perl ~
Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.
~By Peter Sotos ~
The economic picture in the States today doesn't allow for jazz concerts in a tour fashion. People now are too used to the Festival, which gives them more names for the same price.
~By Norman Granz ~
Political and social events must also be effective, but not in a very obvious fashion. But political confusion and prolonged peace undoubtedly affect creative thought but whether they respectively hinder or help it is not at all certain.
~By John Desmond Bernal ~
They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.
~By Janet Frame ~
I have a film I want to direct. Gena Rowlands was going to do it with me a long time ago. It's about an older woman who's running a ranch in the west the old fashioned way.
~By William Hurt ~
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