Fred Allen Quotes

Matching shoes and bags immediately age you by 10 years.

Good design doesn't date. Bad design does.

I've worn some particularly baggy jeans and cowboys boot combinations after coming back from Austin, Texas. This was ill-advised.

Designing my shoes, I'm thinking timeless. Not trendy.

There are some things that are never out of fashion because they just look good. But if you want classic style these days you have to get it made.

I had been playing beach volleyball all day, painted my nails red, and threw on a green dress. I thought I looked great at the time, but looking back, I realize that my debut into Monaco society should have been better executed!

We see women who go out and want to look like Jennifer Aniston, and they're wearing an ill-fitting red dress and ugly gold shoes, and they've got flat hair and they can't walk.

I'm on every worst-dressed list imaginable.

I'm trying to not follow fashion. I don't even like the word. But I do like clothes, and I like nicely cut clothes that last and that are built to be worn for the next 30 years.

I'm wearing a garbage bag. I was put on my own worst-dressed list.

Following a trend too closely is a risky thing. If not properly executed, you could easily end up looking uncomfortable, over-styled, and downright foolish.

We're really focused on being 'of no time.' We studied the idea of timelessness, looking at what designs in history have become timeless.

I can put on a £1,000 item of clothing and make it look a mess.

I like clothes that you can't tell what era it is, clean, and something I can look back at in ten years and not say, like, 'what the hell was I thinking?!'

I'd say I play on old world couture as opposed to modern day bridal; there's something very timeless and appealing in that.

Grafted onto street clothes and removed from the field of play, jerseys don't even flatter men in their physical prime. Witness any baseball player wearing a uniform top over dress shirt and slacks at a press conference podium.

I love the optimistic American style that Gap celebrates and the simplicity of the basic white T-shirt that allows you to be yourself.

When buying vintage, it's important to choose pieces that you feel like you've already owned for years.

I like to think that people are buying Emilia Wickstead because they want to keep it in their wardrobe as an investment piece; she's not just buying it because it's of the moment or what's currently in season.

I believe in classics. I like keeping it simple, whether its colours, cuts, or the outfits I wear.

What is that hair? So yesterday.

I created my bags from the notion of developing a well-edited line of fashionable, but not "trendy" handbags. By designing styles that will be as relevant tomorrow as they are today, my brand has established itself as a modern classic.

[On Kay Strozzi in The Silent Witness:] Miss Strozzi ... had the temerity to wear as truly horrible a gown as ever I have seen on the American stage. ... Had she not luckily been strangled by a member of the cast while disporting this garment, I should have fought my way to the stage and done her in, myself.

Good design is long-lasting! It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated.

The fault of bad taste is usually in over-dressing. Quality not effect, is the standard to seek for.