Clothing Functionality Quotes

I am wearing a vest. If I had no arms, it would be a jacket.

I love the outdoors, I love climbing mountains. But I also like to walk down the street in New York in the fall and go to a bar. So what I require of a jacket is different, but it still has that heritage.

I wanted women to have the same basic wardrobe as a man. Blazer, trousers, and suit. They're so functional. I believed women wanted this and was right.

The dress is a vase which the body follows. My clothes are like modules in which bodies move.

Clothes and fashion should work in people's lives. Period.

American women often fall into the trap of, "Oh, these are my weekend clothes. These are my work clothes. This is what I wear at night." It's so old-fashioned. The French are not afraid of their luxury. Americans can be so puritanical and think, "That's my special-occasion bag." Whereas, for a French woman, it's her everyday bag.

Do you know what kills me? The cropped hats. The beanies that are rolled up past your ears, in the summer as well! There's no function to it.

Good catsuits should have multiple zippers; they'll have a top and a bottom one.

When you buy a jacket, it’s important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!

Initially, it was the unpractical in fashion that brought me to design my own line. I felt that it was much more attractive to cut clothes with respect for the living, three-dimensional body rather than to cover the body with decorative ideas.

The clothes have to perform for me.

Fashion has to be worn; otherwise it doesn't exist.

My clothes are most comfortable as well as practical. I wear navy blue slacks and a long sleeve shirt topped with my lettered tunic. Along the edge of my tunic, both front and rear, are partitioned compartments which are hemmed up to serve as pockets. These hold all my possessions which consist of a comb, a folding toothbrush, a ball point pen, a map, some copies of my message and my mail.

There are two kinds of jackets - reversible, and reversible but it's hard to zipper up and it looks really stupid.

I cut the labels out of my clothes because they scratch. Clothes are just little workhorses, aren't they?

My mother has a very chic sense of style, but she also has high expectations for her clothes to be functional and practical.

I hate it when you see in films people with their anoraks flapping open in a blizzard. They'd be dead in a couple of minutes. It's got to be real. It's got to work.

I wanted Bow's hair and makeup and clothing to look like a woman who has four children, a career, and a full life. For example, she won't wear eyeshadow unless she's going out. Because it takes a lot of time to put eyeshadow on. She's a woman who has style, but it's all about functionality - she grabs stuff from her closet.