“I don't think fashion has to change every five minutes. I'd like these to be clothes you can wear for a long time - ten, 20 years; pass on to your daughter. Why buy vintage when you can open your own closet!” ThinkingYearsLongFiveMinutesFashionTenClothesLong TimeDaughterClosetsFive MinutesVintageOur DaughterYour Daughter Author:Tom Ford
“I think people who are compelled to achieve never really think they've achieved... I think the moment you get to a place when you think 'Oh I'm a fashion legend' then that's when you're no longer competitive in your field.” PeopleThinkingMomentsAchieveFashionFieldsLegendsCompelled Author:Tom Ford
“I'm interested in fashion; I buy fairly good pieces, and I think as I've gotten older, I've pared down a lot.” ThinkingPiecesFashion Author:Nate Berkus
“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
“An actor is supposed to emulate life. Instead, alas, many are imitating other actors. You don't fashion your knowledge of theatre or your approach to a role on the basis of what other actors have done. This kind of thinking is a great danger, especially in dealing with TV producers who frequently say things like, 'This is a Sean Connery type.'” ThinkingKindDoneActorsRolesFashionDangerTvsTypeApproachBasesTheatreProducersAlasEmulateSeanImitatingImitating Others Author:Theodore Bikel
“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
“Of course, I don't act in an extreme fashion in my day to day life. I don't think any of us live do. I think we all have that reserve somewhere and we pull upon it when we need it.” ThinkingNeedsCoursesFashionExtremesReservesDay To DayDay LifeDay To Day Life Author:Vin Diesel
“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 think it's an old fashioned notion that fashion needs to be exclusive to be fashionable.” ThinkingNeedsFashionNotionOld FashionedExclusiveFashionable Author:Marc Jacobs
“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
“Photography should be redefined. It's largely technical... Photography is just unbelievably limiting. I always think of David Bailey and all the fashion photographers - they overlap, you can't always tell who did it. I don't really even like photography all that much. I just think it's so overdone.” ThinkingShouldFashionPhotographyPhotographer Author:Peter Beard
“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
“Don't you think that a lot of designers get into fashion because they have something about themselves that they don't like?” ThinkingFashionDesigner Author:Narciso Rodriguez
“I believe that if you think about what style means, you won't become a fashion victim.” IfsThinkingBelieveMeanI BelieveFashionStyleVictim Author:John Varvatos
“I think that, like any art, fashion is about expression. It allows you to express yourself and your identity through what you choose to wear.” ThinkingArtFashionIdentityExpressionYou ChooseExpress Yourself Author:Erin Heatherton
“Once physical beauty is gone there must be something more to take its place . . . 'To thine ownself be true' is a rule to live by in Hollywood, especially. There's a strong undercurrent of conformity in the movie colony that one must fight all the time. I think this especially true when it comes to fashion, beauty and grooming.” ThinkingFightingStrongGoneFashionHollywoodBeing TrueLive ByConformityColonyGroomingPhysical BeautyRules To Live By Author:Glenn Ford
“I don't think about fashion or trends - I've never really been that kind of person.” ThinkingKindPersonsFashionTrends Author:Erin Wasson
“I think the problem is that fashion has become too fashionable. For years, fashion wasn't fashionable. Today fashion is so fashionable that it's almost embarrassing to say you're part of fashion. All the parodies of it. All the dreadful magazines. That has destroyed it as well, because everybody thinks fashion is attainable.” ThinkingYearsWellsProblemTodayFashionDestroyedMagazinesEmbarrassingFashionableParody Author:Louise Wilson
“Don't crave fame, do what you do and just apply. I don't think many of them here today are that interested in fashion. Perhaps it's because there's not much going on. No punk, no reaction to something. I think we are in a waiting period.” ThinkingTodayWaitingFashionPeriodsFameReactionsPunkCrave Author:Louise Wilson
“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
“The NBA definitely has some trendsetters that stay up on the latest fashion, but I think you're starting to see guys like myself and others get some much-deserved respect in the style department.” ThinkingGuyFashionStyleStartingDepartmentNba Author:Cam Newton
“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
“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
“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 think it's different in fashion, because even if I would be an outsider, I would still be in the middle of the whole world of contemporary fashion. But it's interesting to think what outsider fashion could be. Does it mean to be completely disconnected from the regular system or just disconnected style-wise?” IfsThinkingWorldMeanDoeStillsDifferentWholeWould BeInterestingWiseMiddleFashionStyleWhole WorldContemporaryOutsidersDisconnected Author:Raf Simons
“As far as the fashion of mod 60's goes...I've always loved it. I bought a mod dress while still in college for an audition I had for Marsha Brady in The Brady Bunch Movie. It may have been a little too mod for the American 60's, but I think it worked just fine. I ended up wearing it a lot and it became one of my favorite pieces.” ThinkingMayLittlesHas BeensStillsPiecesFashionCollegeFineDressesMy FavoriteBunchAuditionsBradyModsBrady Bunch Author:Erica Schroeder
“I guess my life was in a pretty disorderly fashion, so I think the music came out that way a little bit.” ThinkingWayLittlesBitsFashionLittle Bit Author:Sune Rose Wagner
“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
“I think the world is really small today, and fashion, from that end of it, it's instantaneous everywhere.” ThinkingWorldEndsTodayFashionInstantaneous Author:Paul Weller
“Your skin is your largest organ, and it wants to breathe. There are so many times, like Fashion Week, when you [need to] think about all the stuff your skin and body have absorbed through makeup and products and all this stuff.” ThinkingWantNeedsBodyStuffWeekFashionProductsSkinsBreatheMakeupOrgansFashion Week Author:Erin Wasson
“I put pressure on myself to propose something new - I think it's the minimum that you can do as a fashion designer.” ThinkingCan DoFashionPressureDesignerSomething NewMinimumProposeFashion Designer Author:Nicolas Ghesquiere
“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
“I think it's changing is that business is not as good as it was and it has become a real question in the world of fashion. You see, bags and shoes don't take on the seasonal quality that fashion does. A black leather bag can be good in any season, but you can't say the same about fashion, particularly about fabrication.” ThinkingWorldDoeRealBlackQualityFashionSeasonsShoesBe GoodBagsLeatherReal QuestionsFabrication Author:Donna Karan
“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
“I always wanted to be a part of Nicolas Winding Refn world, but knew he would never make a movie that has a teenage girl as a lead. Obviously not. Then I heard he was and it was in the fashion world. What? Just combining what we think of [with Refn] - masculinity and violence - in his films with that world was so interesting to me.” ThinkingWorldWantedFilmGirlInterestingViolenceHeardFashionTeenageMasculinityCombiningTeenage GirlFashion World Author:Elle Fanning
“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
“I think handbags, not so much clothes anymore, but I think you can tell a fashion victim by their handbag.” ThinkingFashionClothesVictimHandbags Author:Joanna Lumley
“I think the fashion industry, as a result of globalization, has undergone a uniformity. I'm not saying that's good or that's bad but that is my observation.” ThinkingResultsFashionIndustryObservationGlobalizationUniformityFashion Industry Author:Patricia Field
“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
“This is an industry [high fashion] that has an abundance of over-confidence. I don't think anyone would dispute that, and I'm not trying to pick on anybody, but that's just a fact, right? And sometimes that's fun.” ThinkingTryingSometimesFactsFunFashionIndustryPicksAbundanceDisputesHigh FashionOver Confidence Author:Jared Leto
“I'm not ashamed of my body and you know everything in the fashion world, if I was vulnerable to it, could drive me crazy. I think it produces so much self-hatred.” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldSelfBodyCrazyFashionProduceHatredVulnerableAshamedSelf HatredDrive Me CrazyFashion World Author:Nan Goldin
“Actually, I think what is being shown as beauty in fashion magazines right now has become particularly ugly. This kind of straight, blonde very conservative.” ThinkingKindFashionRight NowConservativeUglyMagazinesBlondeFashion Magazines Author:Nan Goldin
“I think because I've gotten permission from my style icons like Tim Gunn and André Leon Talley, who say to me, "You don't need to dress like anyone else, because you're your own fashion icon. You represent comfortable. And you do fashion your way, and you should be at Fashion Week." They gave me permission to enjoy it! And it's great!” ThinkingWayNeedsShouldEnjoyWeekFashionStyleComfortableDressesPermissionIconsStyle IconsFashion IconLeonFashion Week Author:Whoopi Goldberg
“It's easy to take the shortcut and use animal skins. But I think animal skins look tired. They're not very innovative. They're old-fashioned. And great fashion should be something new.” ThinkingShouldLooksUseEasyAnimalFashionSkinsTiredSomething NewOld FashionedInnovativeShortcutsGreat Fashion Author:Pamela Anderson
“I'm frequently introduced as a fashion designer, and I quickly say I'm not, and instantly people are incredibly disappointed and think that I'm some sort of charlatan who's been perpetuating this falsehood.” PeopleThinkingFashionDesignerDisappointedFalsehoodFashion DesignerCharlatansPerpetuating Author:Tim Gunn