Frida Giannini Quotes

Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.

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 always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.

I want to make clothes that make women feel beautiful.

Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.

The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art.

Form follows beauty.

Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

I don't think I'm an artist or that I'm doing anything superintellectual. What's important to me is to get a visceral reaction from people, for them to want that coat because they think it's beautiful.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

In regards to being a fashion aficionado, there's a certain amount of taking yourself seriously in the professional world. The self-effacing person can't completely go down the serious road. But I design, and love when things are beautiful.

Beauty is that little something that fills the whole world, and is contained neither in a single straight nose, a long eyelash, nor a blue mountain. Some see it in a leg of mutton, others in a compound fracture; and to expect others to accept one's own definition of it is as absurd as to expect all humanity to use the same toilet-brush.

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.

What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

I've always looked at shoes as being immensely beautiful things.

Part of fashion is newness. It's got to be a new combination of elements that's shocking-stunning-beautiful all at the same time. But it doesn't have any emotion.

The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.

I think the relationship is very tenuous between fashion and art. Many designers have built relationships with artists, which is not something I personally did. But it's true, sometimes you see artists working for a designer or a brand on some specific project or taking care of their environment and making an amazing store.

I always hear myself saying, 'She's a beauty!' or 'He's a beauty!' or 'What a beauty!' but I never know what I'm talking about.

I'm satisfied with the way 'The Room' turned out, and I don't want to change anything.

I wish you didn't have to design so often. Try to do quality and cut down on quantity. I think fashion is very, very important.

I very rarely watch my own fashion shows, but the makeup for my Fall 2011 show was just brilliant.

During a fashion show, I want the clothes to speak. The effort I put into my work must be respected.