Helena Christensen Quotes

I'm a fan of originals and classics, but I'm also a fan of new ideas.

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

I lust after iPods or Mini Coopers not because they're unique, but because they've been so artfully made that I couldn't imagine doing it better myself.

What makes our world so fascinating is that continuously there are novel and creative ideas spurring people to leave old ways and try something new.

Classic glam is beautiful and will never go out of style, but I like to try to push the envelope and create something new and inspiring.

I always wanted to bring something new to the table, and make clothes for women where they feel beautiful.

Fashion alone is so far from being the whole story. It seems that with fashion, as with art, things are getting easier in one sense, but at the same time, it is getting harder to be stimulated about things or excite people.

Fashion is not easy. You have to change your eye to look for beauty all the time.

Elegance has nothing to do with fashion.

Nothing gets me more excited and inspired than something new.

The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

Coming up with something new and original is so exciting.

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

What gets me excited is the original principle.

It's true with fashion, acting, anything: Make sure it's timeless, but at the same time, there's got to be a little hint of risk.

My obsession is to make women beautiful. When you create with that in mind, things can't go out of fashion.

Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.

What I like on Kickstarter is when I see real innovation and I see people building something new. It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.

I love art, and it plays a huge role in my life. It's definitely one of my greatest joys, and I'm a bit fanatical about certain painters and poets and musicians and sculptors.

I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation.

I think glamour all the time. I wake up in the morning and I'm already thinking glamour.

AERIN is saturated with the qualities that have surrounded me my entire life, many of which came from my grandmother, Estee: passion, style, hard work, family, and, of course, all things beautiful.

I think we're giving people something new that people didn't know was out there before.

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.