Robin Givhan Quotes

Shoes have a meaning.

Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is.

Clothes are endless possibilities for meaning because with every change or different association, you are a different person.

clothes, after all, are a form of self-expression.

The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something.

What people don't get is that hair is such a big part of our identity.

The personality of the wearer and the hat makes the hat.

Dressing is a way of life.

I have this strange notion that clothes should be fun.

Costume is a massive thing. I think costume makes you stand differently.

A chair's function is not just to provide a place to sit; it is to provide a medium for self-expression. Chairs are about status, for example. Or signalling something about oneself. That's why the words chair, seat and bench have found themselves used to describe high status professions, from academia to Parliament to the law.

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.

One of the things that fascinated me about modeling was that you had the freedom to look any way you wanted.

Fashion is really our armor in the world.

Ironically, style doesn't come even closely related to fashion. It's got nothing to do [with clothes].

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.

Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.

Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role.

What we wear is the shell of who we are.

To me, clothing is a form of self-expression - there are hints about who you are in what you wear.

I thought about the nice clothes that I always wore. Well of course I did. I took pride in being the best dressed monster in Dade County.

I'll tell you this, lad: A tattoo says more of a fellow looking at it than it can do of the man who's got it on his back.

The soul of this man is his clothes.

Today people are a hundred times more interested in the personality of the person they are with than the clothes he wears.

I've been into fashion since birth. I grew up in the 'hood, and everybody in the 'hood wants to compensate for being in poverty, so they want to look good to keep themselves up.