Diana Vreeland Quotes

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

When I started in 1992, I really thought the 'Vogue' fashion department was one of the most frightening places on the planet.

When you have a magazine like 'Vogue,' you know a lot of kids are going to follow your pictures.

'The September Issue' is really a film about Anna Wintour's relationship with long time 'Vogue' Creative Director Grace Coddington. The two of them have been working together for two decades, and the extraordinary symbiosis between them has left an indelible mark on the fashion industry.

'Elle' is such an iconic magazine, and the intersection of fashion and music has always been something that fascinates me.

The New York world is definitely geared toward fashion. So many people work in the fashion industry, photography, all sorts of satellite businesses that have to do with it, so there's no way that it can't affect you, and it just kind of makes you think with more of a fashion edge.

I don't understand the fashion industry and the appeal of it. I understand that there are some people who think it's important to them, and they're designers, they're artists, but there seems to be a disproportionate amount of our culture that's caught up in that and the red carpet stuff. It seems like there's a disproportionate amount of attention placed on that.

Your women of fashion ceases to be a woman. She is neither mother, nor wife, nor lover. She is, medically speaking, sex on the brain.

It's true that fashion is looking at fashion all the time, and this is quite boring.

If you look into the history of fashion, you'll discover that Gernreich was the leading name for years and the leading fashion designer both here in the United States and internationally.

I didn't know about the fashion world, or at least I took it for slightly superficial. I didn't realize the extent of it.

I never looked at magazines before I started modeling. I was 13 or 14 and none of my friends were into magazines. We were into the fashion of the day, though. Designer jeans were really popular - Sasson, Gloria Vanderbilt, Calvin Klein, Jordache. Once I started modeling, I began to learn about these things, and magazines helped me to understand who was who.

I am not a good professional of fashion. I am not an expert about how clothes are constructed or the history of fashion. I never start with fashion. I always think of the girl and her personality - because all that matters to me when you look at a page is, "Do you want to be that girl?"

I've worked as an E! News correspondent covering New York Fashion Week and have appeared on several fashion shows and online sites.

For eight months, from January to August of 2007, I filmed with Anna Wintour and her team at 'Vogue' as they created the September 2007 issue of the magazine.

I'm quite interested in doing a film about fashion. As someone with no fashion taste whatsoever, I think it would be good for me.

Chennai is certainly not a fashion place, though I hear it's picking up.

Vogue is my best mate.

I love Karl Lagerfield. Riccardo Tisci - I love his work.

You have to keep in mind that fashion is constantly changing and every runway show, every designer and every photographer - they are going to have a different vision in mind.

In the late Fifties and early Sixties, I used to think that most of these fashion creators weren't that great, and if the photograph was good, it was mostly thanks to the photographer.

Modeling for a year taught me a lot. I got very involved in the fashion industry and met a bunch of people who I admired.

Fashion it's not just about learning how to draw pretty pictures, and how to sew, it's everything that makes up your life.

This is something I realized after stepping away from women's fashion for the last five years. When you are inside, it is such a tiny group of people who think that this is the most important thing in the world. But when you get a little bit of distance, someone will say to you something like, "Don't you think that shoe is blah?" And I will be like, "What shoe? I don't know what you're talking about." It is very, very inside.

Sometimes I think fashion is going to hell.