Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes

Basically, I didn't know anything about fashion. I was very nerdy; I went to Bryn Mawr and never even noticed models when I was 21.

When Fashion Week ends, I miss the shows and the shot of adrenaline that comes with them. Each day is a new show, a new fitting, and you make new friends. Every season you get to know the other girls a little better.

I was obsessed with fashion when I was young. I thought fashion meant fashion design, and I thought I wanted to be a designer at some point.

The fashion world feels more normal to me when I'm with them.

I like the ritual, the liturgy of a well-crafted, emotional fashion show. I will never be jaded with this side of fashion. The catwalk is pure anthropology, something like an esoteric encrypted parade. It can totally be replaced but it will be missed.

I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.

You have to have talent to design and to dress thousands of women or millions of women around the world. And you know very well, the only thing they want is to look more beautiful.

I love lots of designers. I will always love Vivienne Westwood; she is a legendary designer.

I love the idea of couture and its emphasis on creation. There's where I made my name - in design - and there's where I'd like to stay.

I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape.

I only take risks in couture, but I don't take risks in athleticism.

I like very much to put on fashion shows.

I've got to say, I enjoy a good suit. Something about a really well-tailored suit; I like it.

My involvement in fashion is not at the highest artistic level.

'Vogue' is a fashion magazine, and a fashion magazine is about change.

Formal is formal. I can't wear sneakers all the time. Sometimes, I wear other shoes. It's not my challenge designing formal - it's so boring - but it's still important. I sell a lot of classic black sneakers made from every material because everyone loves black, and if you mix and match material, you get an opera.

I've always been interested in clothes and shopping, and I have a few friends who work in fashion.

If I can get someone to put on a dress, walk in a room, have them feel great, and have everybody think that they look lovely, too - that's my job, as far as evening wear goes.

Fashion world is a unique one, and I love being part of it! I find it fascinating.

I don't think I am avant-garde. I made a lot of creations and created harmony with my fabrics, but I was not like Balenciaga, for example, although he was, of course, a great inspiration.

I create fashion that is memorable.

My friend Chloe Bartoli is a really cool stylist. I've talked about fashion with her a lot over the years. And I love Rihanna - she's rad. Through modeling, I've gotten to know a lot of designers that are really cool. Stefano and Domenico of Dolce & Gabbana have been really sweet.

In a world where every man and his dog is a designer, Alexander McQueen was the real deal. His talent was supersonic.

Elizabeth Kennedy is so chic. Her gowns have such structure, I feel like a work of art.

Today couture has to be expensive, but it shouldn’t look expensive.