“Alexander McQueen's designs are all about bringing contrasts together to create startling and beautiful clothes and I hope that by marrying traditional fabrics and lacework, with a modern structure and design we have created a beautiful dress for Catherine on her wedding day.” TogetherBeautifulModernDesignClothesDressesStructureTraditionalContrastFabricMarryingWedding DayMcqueenBeautiful ClothesBeautiful Dress Author:Sarah Burton
“Im just a normal person. Its not like I come home and think about opera. My thoughts are about completely other things. Shoes! Dresses! Expensive ones: with a pretty silhouette, beautiful fabrics.” ThinkingPersonsHomeBeautifulNormalDressesShoesExpensiveComing HomeOperaFabricMy ThoughtsSilhouettes Author:Anna Netrebko
“All was taken away from you: white dresses, wings, even existence. Yet I believe you, messengers. There, where the world is turned inside out, a heavy fabric embroidered with stars and beasts, you stroll, inspecting the trustworthy seams.” WorldBelieveI BelieveStarsWhiteExistenceTakenDressesWingsHeavyBeastFabricTrustworthyMessengersAway From You Author:Czeslaw Milosz
“I realised that since I was a child I wanted to be an actress just to dress up in big fabrics and corsets and have adventures riding horses with lots of blood and action!” ChildrenBigsActionWantedBloodAdventureHorseDressesActressesRidingFabricRealisedCorsets Author:Clemence Poesy
“We also had a team of costumers that would do samples for us, of fabrics, textures, people doing silhouettes of things up on dress forms, just to kind of inform the design process. Through all of that we got to the point that we had to figure out how to light them up. So that was a huge undertaking.” PeopleKindLightFormProcessTeamFiguresDesignHugeDressesFabricTextureUndertakingsSampleSilhouettesDesign Process Author:Christine Bieselin Clark
“It's what I've trained for, from the first sketch to the fabric. Making dresses that are different from the usual style, and a lot of fun to wear.” FirstsDifferentFunStyleDressesUsualFabric Author:Venus Williams
“Almost every collection I do has 200 different references. I don't have two of the same coat, two of the same dress. I have it in one color, in one fabric. I've tried to adapt the culture of couture, and the know-how and the heritage, but I try to update it.” KnowsTryingTwoDifferentCultureKnow HowColorDressesCollectionsHeritageFabricCoatsUpdatesCouture Author:Alber Elbaz
“Now he's [Cinna] arranging things around my living room: Clothing, fabrics, and sketchbooks with designs he's drawn. I pick one up and examine one of the dresses I supposedly created. You know, I think I show a lot of promise," I say. Get dressed, you worthless thing.” ThinkingKnowsShowsRoomsDesignPromisePicksDressesClothingsFabricWorthlessLiving RoomArrangingCinnaSketchbooksArranging Things Author:Suzanne Collins
“He took her by the shoulders and pulled her closer to him, his fingers knotting in the fabric of her dress. Even more than in the attic, she felt caught in the eddy of a powerful wave that threatened to pull her over and under, to crush and break her, to wear her down to softness as the sea might wear down a piece of glass.” MightFeltPowerfulBreakPiecesSeaDressesFingersGlassesWaveCaughtShouldersCrushFabricThreatenedSoftnessAttics Book:The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“Day 24. Situation is growing worse. My captors continue to find new and horrific ways to torture me. When not working, Agent Scarlet spends her days examining fabric swatches for bridesmaid dresses and going on about how in love she is. This usually causes Agent Boring Borscht to regale us with stories of Russian weddings that are even more boring than his usual ones. My attempts at escape have been thwarted thus far. Also, I am out of cigarettes. Any assistance or tobacco products you can send will be greatly appreciated. -Prisoner 24601” WayHas BeensStoriesCausesSituationGrowingProductsDressesBoringAgentsTorturePrisonerUsualCigaretteFabricAssistanceAppreciatedTobaccoExaminingHorrificScarletBridesmaidsBorscht Author:Richelle Mead
“What children don't understand, and can't understand until they grow up some, is how much the whole fabric and process of human society depends on everybody agreeing to ignore, most of the time, the fact that all of us are, most of the time, inadequate, incompetent, pitiful, and, in fact, naked to our enemies. None of us really has very much in the way of spiritual, moral clothing. We dress ourselves in rags. And we agree to say nothing about it. To a very large extent, it is human charity that clothes us.” WayHumansChildrenWholeFactsSpiritualGrowsProcessMoralEnemyGrowing UpHumilityDependsClothesDressesAgreeCharityNakedClothingsFabricInadequateHuman SocietyIncompetentRagsPitiful Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“I've used a lot of jersey, but I've also done a lot of complex pattern weaves in these fabrics in solid colors, and there are lots of little dresses for cocktail and evening. I've done a series of very important evening dresses as well, just to show that these two ideas can also work well together. Today's woman can wear an important evening dress or a simple pant and top. It's all in the personality of the woman.” WellsLittlesTwoImportantIdeasDoneShowsTodayTogetherUsedSimpleFashionColorPersonalityDressesSeriesComplexesPatternsEveningFabricJerseyCocktails Author:Giorgio Armani
“From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I'd use difficult fabrics such as Lycra and elastic. But you know, my dad was creative and my brother is inventive too.” KnowsYearsUseDifficultCreativeBrotherDadMachinesDressesMy DadEightMy BrotherFabricCostumesSewing Author:Melissa George