“I think violence, cynicism, brutality and fashion are the staples of our diet. I think in the grand history of story-telling, going back to people sitting around fires, the dark side of human nature has always been very important. Movies are part of that tradition.” PeopleThinkingHumansImportantStoriesSidesDarkFireViolenceFashionHuman NatureSittingTraditionDietsCynicismBrutalityDark SideSitting AroundStaples Author:Eric Stoltz
“You can never forget the time you are living in because the past is the past and it will never come back. So to adjust your philosophy and creativity in fashion to the time you’re living in is the most important thing.” ImportantPhilosophyPastForgetCreativityFashionImportant ThingsNever Forget Author:Donatella Versace
“It is extremely important to me that the social and environmental issues associated with the production of fashion clothing are addressed.” ImportantSocialIssuesFashionEnvironmentalProductionsClothingsEnvironmental Issues Author:Bonnie Wright
“Fashion Week is so important for designers.” ImportantWeekFashionDesignerFashion Week Author:Diane von Furstenberg
“As the president of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, I represent the designers. And while we can by no means take the blame for eating disorders, we can play our part in addressing this important issue.” MeanImportantPlayAmericaPresidentIssuesFashionEatingBlameDesignerDisorderCouncilEating DisorderFashion DesignerImportant Issues Author:Diane von Furstenberg
“I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.” ImportantFashionStyleMakersAlways Believe Author:Yves Saint Laurent
“I have an hourglass shape, and I think it's important to understand your body type and your personality type. Then make whatever is on trend and in fashion work for you.” ThinkingImportantBodyFashionTypePersonalityShapesYour BodyTrendsBody TypesPersonality TypesHourglass Author:Fiona Gubelmann
“I've always been very interested in fashion, but it is extremely important to me that the social and environment issues associated with the production of fashionable clothing are addressed. Made-By carries out really important work in transforming the fashion industry, and I am thrilled to support the organisation and help raise awareness of these ongoing issues.” MadeImportantHelpingSocialSupportIssuesEnvironmentAwarenessFashionIndustryRaisesProductionsCarrieClothingsOngoingTransformingFashionableOrganisationFashion IndustryImportant Work Author:Bonnie Wright
“Artists are always searching for beauty - and when they find it and fashion it in their own unique way - it does not seem too important to analyze how it came about.” WayDoeImportantSeemsArtistFashionUnique Author:John Kurtz
“I have fashion designers that I definitely respect. After working for a few years in the industry, you want to branch out and do your own thing and I think that's something that has always been important to me is strengthening the brand and just sticking to "this is who we are, this is our identity, this is who we're going to be". I definitely respect other designers but I don't necessarily have one that I look up to.” ThinkingWantYearsLooksImportantFashionIdentityIndustryBrandsDesignerBranchesLook UpWho We AreRespecting OthersStrengtheningFashion Designer Author:Lauren Conrad
“Fashion is not trivial. It's a huge industry and a big part of our lives. Fashion is about us - how we look and present ourselves, how we can change ourselves, and our perceptions. You can dress up to be quite glorious creatures - it's all a very important part of life.” LooksImportantBigsOur LivesFashionHugeIndustryCreaturesPerceptionDressesGloriousParts Of Life Author:Charlotte Rampling
“In studying music, you're dealing with a person, not just what comes to you on a piece of paper, and it's important to get hold of what it is that lies between that person as a person, and the things which they're producing on the paper. I don't know whether I see things in too complex a fashion, but often people will do things which are not actually their nature, but will do things because they think that's what they should do.” PeopleThinkingKnowsShouldPersonsImportantLyingStudyPiecesFashionPaperComplexesStudying Music Author:Richard Meale
“I am excited by this collaboration: this is the first time H&M involves a Fashion Director in a special project. This is the sign of an important evolution in fashion, and I am both thrilled and humbled to be the one chosen to lead it. I wanted to create precious accessories that are impossible to find. As a stylist I know accessorization is essential: it is the personal touch to any outfit. With these pieces everybody can have fun, turning an ordinary day into a fantastic fashion day” KnowsFirstsImportantWantedFunPiecesImpossibleSpecialFashionEvolutionDirectorsEssentialsProjectsOrdinaryFirst TimeExcitedChosenFantasticHaving FunCollaborationAccessoriesStylistOrdinary DaysPersonal Touch Author:Anna Dello Russo
“New York City is the most important location in the world... it is the center for fashion, culture and finance.” WorldImportantCultureCitiesFashionNew YorkFinanceNew York CityLocation Author:Jared Kushner
“I believe that it's very important to get to know people with whom you can have a substantive dialogue about design and its development. In addition, read everything about fashion that you can get your hands on. A palpable point of view is what makes a designer, so you need to be confident about yours.” PeopleKnowsNeedsBelieveImportantHandsI BelieveViewsFashionDesignDevelopmentPoint Of ViewDialogueDesignerBe Confident Author:Tim Gunn
“I do not believe there has ever been a name as important as Pierre Cardin in the general history of couture.” BelieveImportantNamesFashionCouture Author:Pierre Cardin
“I'm not incredibly self-conscious. I don't really feel like I walk around making fashion or my appearance the most important thing in the world. It's certainly not the way that I live my life. I'm not really sure how the magazines perceive me because I don't read them.” WorldWayFeelsImportantSelfWalksFashionConsciousImportant ThingsAppearanceMagazinesPerceiveLiving My LifeSelf ConsciousI Live My Life Author:Jessica Alba
“It's important for young women and men coming out of the fashion schools to think seriously before starting their own collections.” ThinkingMenImportantSchoolYoungFashionMen And WomenStartingCollectionsComing OutYoung Women Author:Anna Wintour
“Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul. Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us. 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 you live. Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.” PeopleWorldWayWantShouldPersonsImportantSoulFeelingsSeemsFormHateViewsFashionOfficeClothesClaimsDressesLaysWarmWhat You WantVanityVainTrendsRevealingTriflesEscapismImprisonmentInner Feelings Author:Stella Blum
“Maybe it's good a thing that people see me this way [in the documentary film]. They expect to see me with the high heels, the glamour looks, but now they will see me running through an airport with flat shoes! Also, they'll discover that stylists with "names" are in general nicer, sweeter, have a heart, have great relationships with family and friends, and that's important. It shows that people in fashion aren't just freaks.” PeopleWayLooksHeartImportantShowsRunningFilmNamesFashionShoesFlatsFreakHeelsDocumentariesFamily And FriendsAirportsGlamourHigh HeelsStylistGreat RelationshipDocumentary FilmsFlat Shoes Author:Carine Roitfeld
“I've been working with Riccardo Tisci from Givenchy.It's been a long collaboration, and I don't think it's going to stop now. It's very important to me. Riccardo is younger than me, so it's great to have someone new teaching you in everything, not just in fashion. I'm teaching him in French style, what a women's style is, but he's teaching me in all of these different styles of music.I love this new world for me. It's refreshing and nourishing to keep learning about new things.” ThinkingWorldLongImportantDifferentTeachingFashionStyleCollaborationNew WorldNew ThingsRefreshingDifferent StylesKeep LearningGivenchy Author:Carine Roitfeld
“The photographer, even in fashion and portraiture, has to have a standpoint. It's important to know what you stand for, no? Most people just take pictures but they stand for nothing. They follow trends and don't know why.” PeopleKnowsImportantFashionPhotographerTrendsStandpointPortraiture Author:Peter Lindbergh
“The British Fashion Awards are also very important because it's my hometown. But it's really a recognition of my team, and those awards give me an opportunity to thank them in a formal way. You and I have worked together enough to know that it really isn't about two people. It's a whole team. And so it's great to acknowledge that you never do anything alone.” PeopleKnowsWayGivingTwoImportantEnoughWholeTogetherOpportunityTeamFashionGive MeBritishRecognitionAcknowledgeAwardsFormalHometown Author:Christopher Bailey
“Your business clothes are naturally attracted to staining liquids. This attraction is strongest just before an important meeting.” ImportantJusticeBusinessFashionClothesMeetingsAttractionStrongestLiquid Author:Scott Adams
“What you wear can largely govern your feelings and your emotions, and how you look influences the way people regard you. So fashion plays an important role on both the practical level and the aesthetic level of activity.” PeopleWayLooksImportantPlayFeelingsLevelsEmotionRolesInfluenceFashionActivityRegardPracticalsAesthetic Author:Rei Kawakubo
“To adjust your philosophy and creativity in fashion to the time you're living in is the most important thing.” ImportantPhilosophyCreativityFashionImportant Things Author:Nicki Minaj
“My dad worked very hard for the money he made, and my mom worked very hard to keep this household up and running and all the kids fed and everything. And she did it in a brilliant fashion. They both did. In fact, the work ethic, to me, is so important in this life.” MadeImportantHardFactsRunningKidsFashionMomDadEthicsMy DadMy MomBrilliantThis LifeFedsHouseholdWork Ethic Author:Kim Basinger
“The present fashion system is too hard - there are too many collections. The designers have no time to think! Money is too important. Schedules are too crazy.” ThinkingImportantHardCrazyFashionDesignerCollectionsSchedulesTime To Think Author:Azzedine Alaia
“It's important not to take all this fashion stuff too seriously, and I kind of love the idea of cheesiness.” KindImportantIdeasStuffFashionKinds Of Love Author:Joseph Altuzarra
“I think living is serious. Living well, accepting yourself, using your talents to the fullest, enjoying yourself, that's all serious and important...But I think makeup and fashion should not be taken that seriously...You should have fun making up for a party. You should have fun wearing a sexy dress. When you're beautiful it should give you pleasure.” ThinkingGivingShouldWellsImportantBeautifulFunEnjoyPleasurePartyAcceptingTakenTalentFashionSeriousShould HaveDressesSexyHaving FunMakeupLive WellMaking UpAccepting YourselfYou Re BeautifulUsing Your Talents Author:Diane von Furstenberg
“I think that fashion is very important for me and I think that it's a wonderful means of self-expression.” ThinkingMeanImportantSelfWonderfulFashionExpressionSelf Expression Author:Brie Larson
“The capacity to see the big picture is perhaps the most important as an antidote to the variety of psychic woes brought forth by the remarkable prosperity and plentitude of our times. Many of us are crunched for time, deluged by information, and paralyzed by the weight of too many choices. The best prescription for these modern maladies may be to approach one's own life in a contextual, big picture fashion - to distinguish between what really matters and what merely annoys.” MayImportantMatterBigsChoicesModernFashionInformationApproachCapacityWeightProsperityVarietyOur TimeRemarkableAnnoyingWoePsychicsAntidotePrescriptionsBig PictureParalyzedMalady Book:A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future Source: A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
“People often ask me if I consider myself to be an architect, fashion designer, or artist. I'm an architect. The paintings I've done are very important to me, but they were part of a process of thinking and developing.” PeopleIfsThinkingImportantDoneArtistAsksProcessFashionPaintingDevelopingAsk MeDesignerArchitectFashion Designer Author:Zaha Hadid
“I have my own little sense of style. As far as image goes today for a new artist, you'll find that fashion is really important. I wouldn't want to show up for a performance in something that is absolutely the opposite of who I am as an artist.” WantLittlesImportantShowsTodayArtistMy OwnFashionStyleOppositesPerformancesWho I AmNew Artists Author:Miranda Lambert
“I've always liked fashion, I've always made sure that I was dressed properly; the way I looked was always important to me.” WayMadeImportantFashion Author:K-Maro
“For me, prose is never a poem. Because with prose there are so very few tools to create the music. And one of the most important tools missing is the ability to create silences, as you can in poetry by how you fashion the lines and breaks within the lines and stanzas.” ImportantLinesAbilitySilenceBreakFashionMissingToolsProse Author:Pattiann Rogers
“Fashion is emotional, and the way women look at it is emotional, so it's very important to try to connect with a woman's idea of how she might feel.” WayFeelsTryingLooksImportantIdeasMightFashionEmotional Author:Guido Palau
“It is important that New York, in addition to its fashion, and finance, and tourism, and communications infrastructure, also begin developing venture infrastructure that's for real.” ImportantRealFashionNew YorkCommunicationFinanceDevelopingVentureInfrastructureTourism Author:Juan Enriquez
“I have tried to hold my philanthropic passion to fashion, because I think this is very important, and I realize I need to delve even deeper into it.” ThinkingNeedsImportantPassionRealizingFashionDeeperPhilanthropic Author:Donna Karan
“It's important to know yourself well, in order to create your own style of fashion to suit your own body shape.” KnowsWellsImportantBodyOrderFashionStyleShapesSuitsKnow YourselfBody Shapes Author:Sonia Rykiel
“What's important to a fashion designer? It's much more than learning how to make clothes. In fact, that merely makes you a dressmaker. It doesn't make you into a fashion designer.” ImportantFactsFashionClothesDesignerWhat's ImportantFashion Designer Author:Tim Gunn
“Can I tell you who is the most important fashion icon in the world? Queen Elizabeth of England. Think about that. She has never put her foot anywhere wrong and always looks fantastic.” ThinkingWorldLooksImportantFeetFashionEnglandFantasticQueensIconsFashion IconQueen Elizabeth Author:Carolina Herrera
“Sports will always be important in global culture, and so fashion, as a reflection of cultural trends, will always incorporate influences from sports.” ImportantCultureSportsInfluenceFashionReflectionTrends Author:Giorgio Armani
“Fashion was very important to me because I could practice my acting skills, I could practice working with the camera, I could work with amazing photographers. It just gave me a different field of work.” ImportantDifferentActingPracticeFashionFieldsSkillsCamerasPhotographer Author:Sergei Polunin
“It's shot by Ben Rayner who I think is very talented at doing portrait photography as well as fashion photography. His images never look like a model. You know, it doesn't look like a faceless model just wearing whatever. There's always personality that comes through. That was quite important for me to capture.” ThinkingKnowsWellsLooksImportantFashionPersonalityPhotographyModelsShotsCapturePortraitsFacelessFashion PhotographyPortrait Photography Author:Alexa Chung
“I'm not a designer who is very interested in baroque or in fantasy or in the fantastic side of fashion. This exists and this is important, but I'm interested in the very real dimensions.” ImportantRealSidesFantasyFashionFantasticDesignerDimensionsBaroque Author:Christophe Lemaire
“Be yourself. It's the most important part of anything that you do. It's not fashion. It can be whatever you want to do.” WantImportantFashionBeing Yourself Author:Russell Westbrook
“We don't have a watchdog in fashion, we don't have HR to go to, so it is important to get that word out to someone whether it's an agent or someone like me and we should all come together and figure out what we can do.” ShouldImportantTogetherCan DoFashionFiguresLike MeAgents Author:Bethann Hardison
“All the shows are immediately on the Internet, on Instagram, on Twitter, it's huge. Everything is live now, and for fashion, it's very important. It's not that it's good or bad, it's just like that and it's not going to change so we have to adapt to it.” ImportantShowsFashionHugeInternetInstagram Author:Delphine Arnault