Suzy Menkes Quotes

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.

Elizabeth Taylor has reinvented herself and her image time and time again. The results have often helped redefine modern fashion.

I understand that the rule of fashion is to change, even as a successful designer - you do not want to be stuck in the same rut.

Fashion anticipates.

It's funny; in fashion, you can never relax and feel like it's all sorted. Every season, you have to give yourself a challenge and come up with something new and fresh.

As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward; you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do.

Fashion has always been a repetition of ideas, but what makes it new is the way you put it together.

Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.

I find some collections to be more vibrant than others, but the designers who last are those who are able to continue to be creative within the mold they have cast, usually right at the beginning of their careers.

I'm going to be a fashion icon in a minute. I'm not going to do it in a corny manner. I have a voice that speaks for a whole other market - not just black people, but high fashion urban people. I mix street wear with high fashion. It's never been seen before.

My earliest influences were Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent.

Chanel took women out of corsets and put them into the 'simple little black dress,' the perfectly tailored suit, the bell-bottom sailor pants, and jersey tops.

You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.

For me, fashion should always be evolving so it remains exciting and unexpected.

I've realised that when fashion is really good and really challenges and takes a risk, it is incredibly artistically powerful. It makes people dream.

Fashion means never to look too much backwards. It always needs to go forwards.

Nothing is quite what you expect with Gucci. I'm just happy to be a part of their adventure.

The secret of fashion is to surprise and never to disappoint.

Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.

Music & Fashion; it all comes from the same place of creativity.

In fashion, the most important thing is to move on.

The nice thing about the fashion industry is that you're constantly working on something new.

Fashion keeps me designing: the love of change, the idea that the next one will be the right one, the nonstop dialogue

I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes - it's about all kinds of change

Today designer Alexander McQueen passed away...His talent was immense and he will remain immortal in the history of Fashion.