Sarah Burton Quotes

To me, fashion is like a mirror. It's a reflection of the times. And if it doesn't reflect the times, it's not fashion. Because people aren't gonna be wearing it.

I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.

What I find most interesting in fashion is that it has to reflect our time. You have to witness your own moment.

Fashion is kinda a joke. I don't get too bogged down in the clothes. For me, it's one big art project, just a canvas to show that fashion should have a brand which has someone behind it who cares about different contexts. Social things.

Fashion designers only occasionally tread outside the realm of clothes as pure commodity. When they do, the results are often a muddled, self-conscious message.

I would like the people that buy my clothes to understand that for me it's one small piece of art.

You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in.

I'm a designer, and I think if you work in fashion, you have to give people fantasy.

As I said many times, the fashion world, its system, can be disturbing.

I think it's a great thing to support fashion and support designers.

I like doing stuff like, for instance, in the 'Leave the Night On' video, I had on a plain white T-shirt. I just wanted to do something to it to make it a little different, so I just cut a big strip out of the side, from the shirttail up to my armpit, and cut a big red strip out of another T-shirt and just sewed it in there.

I am not really interested in clothing as a conceptual art form.

I think when you're in my position as an artist, I can say what I want and talk about the issues that matter.

For me, fashion succeeds when it says something about the times we live in.

Through fashion, it's possible to express deep values of one's creative talent and also the values that are expected of society.

Fashion design is an important part of the creative industry that means the most to women.

Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time, with all the events. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes. You can see and feel everything in clothes.

Fashion is a reflection of our times. Fashion can tell you everything that's going on in the world with a strong fashion image.

I'm not a policy maker. I'm not even a very great activist. My main thing is to make things that speak for the culture that I live in.

Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.

I'm not designing clothes for someone who is doing lines of coke off the table, like I was when I was at Gucci and Saint Laurent

Dress designing, incidentally, is to me not a profession but an art.

I think people who are attracted to the fashion industry are people who are really insecure and looking for a certain identity.

You always have to keep up with the trends. The biggest thing is making your own trend and making your own stamp in the fashion industry. Whatever is going to be your style, make that your style and go from there.

The creatives, they want to connect with people. These artists, the clothing designers, they want to connect with people the same way that music gets to connect with people. But the cost of silk is too expensive. And they won't lower their quality levels. So I can spend $2 million on a record and give it out in a democratic way. They could spend all their time making the greatest dress in the world, and it's just impossible to hand-make that many.