“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 was definitely scared of fashion growing up just because I didn't want people to think I was gay. But now that I'm out, I feel like it's such a personal journey for me that I'm going on every single day where I feel more and more confident and comfortable to wear the clothes that I want to wear, and to have the interest that I have, and to paint my nails if I want to.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantFeelsInterestGrowing UpGrowingJourneyFashionGayComfortableClothesPaintScaredNailsPersonal Journey Author:Troye Sivan
“I like characters. I like spirited characters whether they exist in fiction or real life. Whether they're the invention of artistic people or directors, musicians. I think music and art and fashion designers inspire me and I like characters.” PeopleThinkingArtRealCharacterFictionFashionInspireDirectorsMusicianReal LifeInventionArtisticDesignerFashion DesignerSpirited Author:Marc Jacobs
“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.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayLooksMayWholeFashionWhole LifeMuseKim Author:Marc Jacobs
“I think when I started to get in shape and spend time at the gym, I could be better to other people and be better to myself and get back to loving fashion and experience it myself. I started to wear kilts and lace dresses.” PeopleThinkingFashionShapesDressesGet BackGymSpend TimeLaceKiltsGetting In Shape Author:Marc Jacobs
“I'd like to believe that the women who wear my clothes are not dressing for other people, that they're wearing what they like and what suits them. It's not a status thing.” PeopleBelieveFashionClothesSuitsDressings Author:Marc Jacobs
“I mean, a lot of people don't realize it, but fashion is one of the most racial industries left out there now. Radio and music aren't. Television and movies aren't. Even commercials now are showing interracial couples. You see a lot of diversity in TV shows, but you don't see that in fashion. You think there would be some, because the consumer is of all colors and all shades. But you don't see that in fashion.” PeopleThinkingMeanShowsWould BeLeftRealizingFashionTelevisionColorTvsIndustryCoupleDiversityRadioConsumersShadeTv ShowsLeft OutInterracial Couple Author:Tyson Beckford
“So many people are diverted to doing what people want photographed - fashion models, buildings, mountains - they get to thinking those photographs are good.” PeopleThinkingWantFashionBuildingMountainModelsPhotographFashion Model Author:Rondal Partridge
“Some people say I'm kinda country, but I like to take risks on fashion. I kinda go left sometimes, so you can get a taste of my personality.” PeopleCountrySometimesLeftRiskFashionPersonalityTaste Author:Toni Braxton
“Whoever we may be, whatever our immediate interest, however much we carry baggage from our past, however much we have been caught by the fashion of cynicism and loss of faith in the capacity of the people, let us err today and say - nothing can stop us now!” PeopleMayHas BeensTodayPastInterestLossFashionCapacityCaughtCynicismOur PastBaggageLoss Of Faith Author:Thabo Mbeki
“I think people need to see Prince live to really understand how remarkable he is. He has always been inspiring because he is never afraid to break rules or barriers or invent something new - and if you love fashion, then you need to be able to do that.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsAbleBreakFashionRemarkableBarriersSomething NewLove Fashion Author:Donatella Versace
“I sometimes use some personality traits to fashion part of a character. Most of my characters are composites of either people I know or people in the public eye.” PeopleKnowsSometimesCharacterUseEyeFashionPersonalityTraitsPublic EyePersonality TraitsComposites Author:Nelson DeMille
“Fashion Week was at Bryant Park and there were a few shows like Marc Jacobs, or when Alexander McQueen came to town, that were offsite, Helmut [Lung] was offsite, but it was very intimate. It wasn't the way it is today where you have a thousand people at the show. You may have had 200 to 250 and it was really the trade and you know fashion greats.” PeopleKnowsWayMayShowsTodayWeekFashionThousandTownsTradeIntimateParksLungsJacobMcqueenFashion Week Author:Roopal Patel
“There weren't paparazzi standing outside. There weren't all these photographers. People really didn't know what fashion was and what was happening in the tents.” PeopleKnowsFashionHappeningsStandingPhotographerStanding OutTentsPaparazzi Author:Roopal Patel
“I feel like fashion was much more exclusive. There weren't as many parties. There weren't as many social gatherings. It wasn't required that designers have events to lure customers or editors or any of that - it was about a show. If there was a dinner or a party, people would go out after. New York nightlife was about late nights and dancing.” PeopleIfsFeelsShowsNightSocialPartyFashionEventsNew YorkLateDancingDinnerCustomersDesignerEditorsGatheringExclusiveLureLate NightNightlife Author:Roopal Patel
“I also could see myself as a stand-up comedian, a fashion designer (for people of all sizes), a hairdresser, an earnest and eventually burnt-out politician, or the owner of a small bistro. But I fear that, without poetry, I would have simply been going through the motions.” PeopleFashionPoliticianSizeComedianDesignerOwnersEarnestFashion DesignerHairdresserStand Up ComedianBurnt OutBistro Author:Denise Duhamel
“At the time I was first writing the stories/essays that appear in Oedipus Wrecked, I was still under the impression that people would be delighted to see their name in print. I overlooked the fact that I was writing about intimate matters, and people are a bit touchy about airing their private lives in such a public fashion. Especially when it's done without their consent.” PeopleWritingFirstsStillsMatterDoneFactsStoriesWould BeNamesBitsFashionImpressionIntimatePrintConsentEssaysPrivate LifeDelightedOverlookedTouchyOedipus Author:Kevin Keck
“No matter how much people in fashion think we're so cool and avant-garde, for most fashion people, creativity is quite taboo.” PeopleThinkingMatterCreativityFashionTabooAvant Garde Author:Riccardo Tisci
“I've always wanted to do things differently, and if one person or ten people are doing the same, then I want to do it differently. I love to travel, I love art, I love fashion. I love going to great restaurants and trying different things. Different cultures are inspiring to me.” PeopleIfsWantTryingPersonsArtDifferentWantedCultureFashionTenRestaurantsDifferent ThingsDifferent CulturesLove FashionI Love FashionTrying Different ThingsGreat Restaurants Author:Molly Sims
“I love making people laugh and feel good, and that's awesome and special for me to be able to do that, but there really is nothing like kicking ass whether it's on a major scale, or whether it's in more of a dramatic fashion. Being physical and taking care of business the old-fashioned way is something that I love doing.” PeopleWayFeelsCareAbleLaughingSpecialFashionMajorsScalesAssFeel GoodDramaticOld FashionedMaking People LaughKickingLove Making Author:Dwayne Johnson
“I've always really been interested in getting to work with QVC because I love teaching people about fashion and I love seeing people get excited by what they're wearing.” PeopleSeeingTeachingFashionExcitedLove Teaching Author:Brad Goreski
“I wore combat boots for two albums, then I went into more of the sparkle and glamour. The older that I've become, I've felt very connected to fashion, especially this past year working with [stylist] Kate Young and creating these relationships with people that I never had before.” PeopleYearsTwoPastYoungFeltFashionCreatingAlbumsConnectedCombatBootsGlamourKateSparkleStylistCombat Boots Author:Selena Gomez
“People showed me this way of dealing with music, writing songs, thinking about music and shows and our community and the fact that it doesn't have to be about being popular or fashion or making money.” PeopleThinkingWayWritingFactsShowsSongCommunityFashionMaking MoneyOur CommunityWriting SongsBeing PopularMusic Writing Author:Chuck Ragan
“What many people don't see is that there are abundant examples of phenomenal opacity: It is one of the most interesting features of the human conscious model of reality that, first, it can contain elements that are not experienced as mind-independent, as unequivocally real, as immediately given, and second, that there is a "gradient of realness" in which one and the same content can be experienced transparently or in an opaque fashion.” PeopleMindFirstsHumansRealRealityGivenInterestingFashionExampleElementsModelsConsciousIndependentFeaturesMost InterestingPhenomenalOpaqueRealness Author:Thomas Metzinger
“Well, my own men's collection always felt very free back in the days before Jil. Once you make it this kind of dialogue with other people, with a fashion show and clients and whatever, it becomes something else. Free meets not so free.” PeopleMenWellsKindShowsFeltMy OwnFashionDialogueCollectionsClientsFashion Show Author:Raf Simons
“When artists connect to a system because they want to make a living, it's their own choice. In fashion, designers don't have that choice. I know everybody mentions Azzedine Alaïa, but he's been going for a long time in the system - showing to people, selling to clients - and I think it's admirable how he's transformed it into his own system in a way, but it's still a system.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWantLongStillsArtistChoicesFashionLong TimeSellingDesignerTransformedClientsAdmirableFashion Designer Author:Raf Simons
“I love different sorts of people, their stories, all the different facets, that make them, them. This is entwined with how I am compelled to tell many of these stories and have ended up being a broadcaster after originally going to drama school and working in fashion for a bit.” PeopleDifferentStoriesSchoolBitsFashionDramaCompelledFacetsBroadcastersEntwined Author:Gemma Cairney
“It's very strange that people would consider me a fashion muse but it's also flattering. I try to just be myself, and wear what's comfortable and makes me feel good.” PeopleFeelsTryingFashionStrangeComfortableFeel GoodMuseFlattering Author:Bethany Cosentino
“I have met a few people, who are so respected in the fashion industry and all around the world, and are still very humble. People who have it all but act like they only just started, it's beautiful. This is what I want to be.” PeopleWorldWantStillsBeautifulFashionIndustryMetsHumbleAround The WorldFashion Industry Author:Benjamin Clementine
“Some people are saying that my music is not for Burberry, it's not for fashion. I know where they're trying to go but if you're saying my music is only for deprived and sad people, then you're not helping me and you're not helping yourself. It's meant to be for everyone.” PeopleIfsKnowsTryingHelpingFashionMusic IsMeant To BeDeprivedHelp YourselfBurberry Author:Benjamin Clementine
“We made basement practice songs.To have them presented in such a huge fashion today - like at Primavera, where it's thousands of people in a festival environment - is surreal. I never thought some of the songs would ever need to be projected at such a volume or to such a wide span of people.” PeopleNeedsMadeTodaySongPracticeEnvironmentFashionHugeWideVolumeFestivalsSurrealBasementsFashion Today Author:David Pajo
“Not everyone is selfish in fashion. There are people who go to bed feeling good about themselves and then spread the love.” PeopleFeelingsFashionBedSpreadSelfishFeel Good Author:Alek Wek
“I worked at a bunch of other salons, and at one, this girl was going out to do a photo shoot for a women's magazine and brought me along to assist her. I remember going on that shoot and thinking, "God, this is great. It's creative, and you get to work with all of these other creative people." At that point I decided that hair would be my in to fashion and all the things I thought I would enjoy - and did enjoy.” PeopleThinkingWould BeRememberGirlEnjoyCreativeFashionHairDecidedBunchMagazinesGoing OutCreative PeopleThis GirlPhoto ShootsSalonsThinking God Author:Guido Palau
“As the older ones, to understand that it is a different time, and young people look at fashion in a different way . . . It's just different. If we harp on about it, they'll feel like we're just old fuddy-duddies, so I just kind of get on with it. I still feel I've got things to say.” PeopleIfsWayFeelsLooksKindStillsDifferentYoungFashionDifferent WaysDifferent TimesHarps Author:Guido Palau
“People thought this was a computer IT gig, and that will flow through those nerdy departments and it won't come into fashion photography, it won't come into television, it won't come into my daily communications, it won't come into my telephone, my microphone, my light control, my microwave radio, my - I mean, just name it.” PeopleMeanLightNamesFashionTelevisionCommunicationComputerPhotographyFlowRadioDepartmentTelephonesGigsMicrophonesNerdyMicrowavesFashion Photography Author:Juan Enriquez
“I'm not interested in how people dress. Of course, I recognize if somebody's elegant. But fashion doesn't interest me.” PeopleIfsCoursesInterestFashionDressesNot InterestedElegant Author:Miuccia Prada
“I've seen people wearing clothes that don't look good on them, but they're really loving those clothes and the experience of wearing those clothes. Fine. At the end of the day, it's fashion.” PeopleLooksEndsFashionFineClothesThe End Of The Day Author:Ian Astbury
“I never wanted to get into high end in Colombia - the percentage of people who can afford it is very small, and they can shop abroad anyway. It's just not what I had in mind. I wanted to bring international fashion to as many people here as possible, who don't usually get exposed to such styles.” PeopleMindEndsWantedFashionStyleInternationalShopsExposedPercentagesColombia Author:Esteban Cortazar
“My aspiration isn't to be some fashion photographer or anything. I think that's a space that's occupied by people that have a full-time commitment to the industry. You have to really be 100% invested to be successful in that industry.” PeopleThinkingSpaceSuccessfulFashionIndustryCommitmentPhotographerAspirationBeing Successful Author:C. J. Wilson
“I think that's something that investment banks have worried about for a long time and are continuing to worry about, but it's not an easy solution when you have lots of people betting the company's money, how do you really allocate those risks? How do you make sure that the people that take the risks are feeling the risks in an appropriate kind of fashion?” PeopleThinkingKindLongFeelingsEasyCompanyWorryRiskFashionLong TimeSolutionsInvestmentWorriedAppropriateContinuingBetting Author:Robert F. Engle
“It is neither a great praise nor a great blame when people say a tendency is in or out of fashion. If a tendency is as it should be at one time, it is always as it should be.” PeopleIfsShouldFashionPraiseBlameTendenciesOne Time Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable
“You see people - maybe in a frustrating fashion - that don't get embraced, when they should. You get some people who get embraced too early, and they tend to flame out, but it's really rare that someone gets lucky. It's usually a combination of a lot of talent and a lot of hard work.” PeopleShouldHardTalentFashionHard WorkLuckyCombinationFlamesFrustrating Author:Chris Gethard
“Being good at fashion and beauty and girly stuff has been such a point of insecurity for me; I'm not good at coming up with jokes that make fun of other people for that, because I don't feel like I have a mastery of it myself.” PeopleFeelsHas BeensFunStuffFashionJokesBe GoodInsecurityMasteryGirlyFashion And Beauty Author:Rachel Bloom
“Growing up in Atlanta, it brings a particular swagger about a person. There are three or four places in the country where people think of fashion: One is LA, obviously. Another is New York. And I think Atlanta has to be in the top five cities where fashion is very big.” PeopleThinkingPersonsCountryBigsThreeCitiesGrowing UpFiveFourGrowingFashionNew YorkParticularSwaggerAtlanta Author:Cam Newton
“In any form or fashion, people are finding a way to inflict pain and sadness on people, on a daily basis. We have this situation in Turkey, we have this situation with ISIS, and we have our own internal fights within the United States.” PeopleWayStatesPainFormFightingUnitedSituationUnited StatesSadnessFashionFindingsBasesInternalsTurkeysIsis Author:Edwin Hodge
“I had been a fashion photographer for over ten years, but I'd always been dissatisfied with what I was doing. It was all about selling people, and I got disheartened by the whole industry.” PeopleYearsWholeFashionIndustryTenPhotographerSellingDissatisfiedDisheartened Author:Giles Duley
“It's funny: not only with the title of the album but also the song [It's Decided]. I kind of felt nostalgic. The beginning lyric is, "There's almost a sentimental feeling to another time," and when I got together with Kevin, he just absolutely, in his own fashion, just pushed me to go deeper than I usually would want people to know. That was the most difficult part for me was to bring someone in.” PeopleKnowsWantKindFeelingsTogetherSongFeltDifficultFashionDecidedAlbumsDeeperTitlesSentimentalNostalgicKevinAnother Time Author:Andy Kim
“I think the best way to invite people into the conversation is to just create something beautiful out of love, and people naturally gravitate towards a new way of looking at fashion.” PeopleThinkingWayBeautifulFashionConversationBest WayInvitesNew WaysSomething Beautiful Author:Nikki Reed
“[Kanye West] took me to a fashion meeting in Paris once. I'd never met these people; I was so nervous. It was the beginning of our relationship, and I didn't know anyone in fashion. And he passed out at the table. I'm like, "I'm so sorry, we're jet-lagged." You don't know the number of times I've had to say that. I always flat-out lie that he's jet-lagged, even if we've been home for months.” PeopleIfsKnowsHomeLyingNumbersFashionMonthsMetsTablesMeetingsWestSorryNervousParisFlatsOur RelationshipJetI'm So Sorry Author:Kim Kardashian