My dream was always to be a composer, but fashion came very easily.
~By Gianni Versace ~
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 ~
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 ~
The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
~By Walter Benjamin ~
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
~By Maurice Maeterlinck ~
I've always expressed my love for fashion through my music.
~By Lil' Kim ~
I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick?
~By Billie Joe Armstrong ~
If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today.
~By Benoit Mandelbrot ~
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 ~
May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.
~By May Sarton ~
You want to look fashionable and put-together, not like you hit every sale rack this season.
~By Tommy Hilfiger ~
Modern dancing is old fashioned.
~By Samuel Goldwyn ~
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 ~
Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.
~By Cecil Beaton ~
We'll have to wait the old-fashioned way.
~By Wolf Blitzer ~
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 ~
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 hate the terminology of "costume" because my clothes are not costumes at all. I think they're high fashion, avant-garde, and more couture, definitely, and yes, some of my pieces are not particularly wearable, but I wouldn't say they're costumes, I'd say they're more couture.
~By Christian Siriano ~
Jeans represent democracy in fashion.
~By Giorgio Armani ~
Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.
~By Marguerite Gardiner ~
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 ~
The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority.
~By Marie de France ~
I am just old-fashioned enough to prefer long hair.
~By Erich von Stroheim ~
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 ~
Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing.
~By John Webster ~
I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.
~By Donna Karan ~
It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle.
~By Lynn Abbey ~
Stories about Diana's fashions, about possible rows between Charles and Diana, these were meat and drink.
~By Andrew Morton ~
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
~By Nicolas de Chamfort ~
I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.
~By Eric Allin Cornell ~
All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.
~By Alberto Giacometti ~
When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.
~By Tony Visconti ~
Fashion is a tool... to compete in life outside the home. People like you better, without knowing why, because people always react well to a person they like the looks of.
~By Mary Quant ~
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
~By Anthony Burgess ~
One cannot fashion a credible deterrent out of an incredible action.
~By Robert McNamara ~
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.
~By Loni Anderson ~
I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern - wearing head-to-toe designer has become a bit passe. It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.
~By Alexander McQueen ~
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 ~
He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.
~By Woodrow Wilson ~
I'm not that fashion-conscious. A lot of times, when women are appearing to be so perfect, it's because they're a mess underneath.
~By Meg Tilly ~
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
~By Alexander Pope ~
I don't look so closely at women's fashion, but from the 20th century on, people have had the freedom to express themselves and their individualities, and fashion is one of the most fundamental ways in which they do this, men and women are equally able to express themselves.
~By Tadao Ando ~
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
~By Yves Saint Laurent ~
Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don't have a change, you're bored. It's the same with fashion, you know. And that, I suppose, is what style is about.
~By Bill Blass ~
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 ~
Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.
~By Gavin DeGraw ~
To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.
~By Walter Pater ~
But the Milanese have made bad choices, bad fashion, and bad jewelry.
~By Christian Lacroix ~
I once said the Queen of England could use some fashion advice.
~By Kathie Lee Gifford ~
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 ~
I don't believe in email. I'm an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up.
~By Sarah Jessica Parker ~
The English scene got more media attention with their emphasis on fashion, with the safety pins and all. There were some really good bands over there. The Sex Pistols were great.
~By Greg Ginn ~
Call me old-fashioned, but I like my conditioners to be conditioners and my shampoos to be shampoos.
~By Kyan Douglas ~
I don't like fashion. It's very heartless.
~By Paul Simon ~
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.
~By Christian Audigier ~
Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of them spoke to her after their own fashion.
~By Michael Ende ~
I'm against fashionable thinking.
~By Herman Kahn ~
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 ~
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.
~By Mason Cooley ~
I would love to do a Western again if Westerns came back into fashion.
~By Bruce Boxleitner ~
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 ~
For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends.
~By Meryl Streep ~
I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology.
~By Robert Wyatt ~
Just when I think I hate fashion, I hate clothes, I'm seized by this crazy thing that I have to do. I have this little studio now where I just draw. I can be in the room for three days and not even look up.
~By Isaac Mizrahi ~
I did decide that you have to put your name about a bit, and so, although I would have preferred to have never done publicity or an interview or a fashion shoot for a magazine or a chat show.
~By Jeremy Northam ~
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 ~
Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends.
~By Janice Dickinson ~
I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.
~By Gilda Radner ~
We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.
~By Lee Iacocca ~
Playing a fashion designer could be the bane of my existence because I am married to a fashion designer.
~By Lori Loughlin ~
There are a lot of gay people in fashion, but it's not as if every gay person is a great creator.
~By Calvin Klein ~
Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.
~By Margaret Oliphant ~
A character is a completely fashioned will.
~By Novalis ~
The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it.
~By William Shakespeare ~
Undoubtedly, there are members of the former regime that are cooperating in some fashion and then there are extremists that are within Iraq that are cooperating with them.
~By John Abizaid ~
So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.
~By Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach ~
In difficult times fashion is always outrageous.
~By Elsa Schiaparelli ~
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 ~
In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was very difficult to get a house, because the politicians who controlled housing were doing so in a very discriminatory fashion.
~By John Hume ~
My writing, like everything I do, comes profoundly from my heart. I believe that if you follow your heart you will be successful in one way or another. Old-fashioned as that might sound, the philosophy is true.
~By Kim Elizabeth ~
You cannot fashion a wit out of two half-wits.
~By Neil Kinnock ~
That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.
~By Gianni Versace ~
I love art and fashion.
~By Mena Suvari ~
Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends - they will never go out of fashion.
~By Niki Taylor ~
Up to now we have faced external problems in an isolated fashion. One of these problems is precisely the drug trade and what has been the result? A very weak and fragile position.
~By Alberto Fujimori ~
I don't want to be the Hollywood girl... I'm Southern and old-fashioned.
~By Jaime Pressly ~
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 ~
Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh.
~By Geoffrey Beene ~
An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
~By Pope Benedict XVI ~
He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner.
~By Hesiod ~
Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.
~By Peter De Vries ~
A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.
~By Jose Saramago ~
So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had.
~By Carly Simon ~
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 fact that biological, or "natural" rules might help in the creation of a computer generated work of art is interesting, but even a wonderful work of art made in this fashion isn't the same as a person, with all his or her experiences and emotions involved, making art.
~By Steven Levy ~
In the last couple of years, fashion's gotten a lot safer. People are really pulling back.
~By Steven Cojocaru ~
The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.
~By Matthew Hale ~
I got to the point where I was sick of fashion again, like I was at the end of high school.
~By Stephen Sprouse ~
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