Fashion Designer Quotes

Posh does not equal style. Really, God, that's just ridiculous. Posh equals tradition. Anyone can achieve style. It doesn't matter who you are or where you're from.

Susannah Constantine

I refuse to be a part of this reality that was manufactured by other people; I manufactured my own reality

I don't believe in fashion dictatorship, and I find that anybody who follows the dictates of fashion is a bit lost. I'm excited by style, not so much by fashion.

Fantasy is often better than reality. It's much more inspiring not to go to places than to go.

I'm not a greedy person, I just want to accomplish so many different things.

Most male painters have historically admired the female form. It's got a lot going for it.

Stella McCartney

I'm 40 now. When I'm dead, hopefully this house will still be going.

Alexander McQueen

Jack, stop telling people you're Ozzy Osbourne's son to get into places, you're a fucking loser!

The clothes in themselves do not make a statement. The woman makes the statement and the dress helps.

You can't even go out with a friend who's a celebrity and have a good time without people making shit up.

Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society's struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.

Yves Saint-Laurent

I've questioned issues of gender and sexuality since I was a teenager, and I did some experimenting.

It is elegance that is potent and subversive. Elegance in a world of vulgarity.

Vivienne Westwood

In order to create an image almost similar to that of a pencil case standing up and walking, I try to eliminate all excess by cutting. I have the feeling that this process (of "cutting off") is linked in some way to "elegance". Elegance and so-called "eliminating excess", or the beauty that remains after excess has beeen eliminated...

Many people dismiss haute couture as being something that is only for those who are very wealthy... simplicity, good taste, and grooming are the three fundamentals of good dressing and these do not cost money.

I think that Saint Laurent was probably the master of enhancing the feminine form. I mean, OK, it was sometimes a bit androgynous, but I do think he knew about femininity. I think he liked women... whereas there are others who quite clearly didn't.

Sometimes fashion moves from the moment to the moment to the moment. But where is the integrity in design?

It is totally impossible to be well dressed in cheap shoes.