Clothing Purpose Quotes

A runway is spectacle. It’s only fashion when a woman puts it on.

Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.

The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament.... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries.

When it comes to dressing, comfort is overrated. A little discomfort probably means your clothes fit and they're not pajamas.

That cowboy look - the hat and the bandana - that's not a fashion statement. That clothing is purely practical.

Fashion has become a joke. The designers have forgotten that there are women inside the dresses.

Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.

Clothing started as an armor for me. It was one of the ways that I protected myself from the world. It evolved into a form of creative expression.

Today, fashion is really about sensuality-how a woman feels on the inside. In the '80s women used suits with exaggerated shoulders and waists to make a strong impression. Women are now more comfortable with themselves and their bodies-they no longer feel the need to hide behind their clothes.

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

Why do we wear clothes? Genesis!

Nothing wears clothes, but Man; nothing doth need But he to wear them.

I became a fashion designer to make clothes for the people, not to be a top couturier in the French tradition.

We must put up with clothes as they are they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us to advertise what we wear them to conceal.

Clothes is just something you put on to cover yourself... fashion is a way to communicate.

The whole idea of wearing clothes is not to look ridiculous.

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

I was always interested in making clothing that is worn by people in the real world.

I have always felt my role as a designer is to do the very best I can for a woman to make her look her best. Fashion is only fashion once a woman puts it on.

Although a life-long fashion dropout, I have absorbed enough by reading Harper's Bazaar while waiting at the dentist's to have grasped that the purpose of fashion is to make A Statement. My own modest Statement, discerned by true cognoscenti, is, "Woman Who Wears Clothes So She Won't Be Naked.

The way I choose to dress, I want to influence other people around me, I suppose.

I always tried to design something new and of the moment. The idea was not to make something that would last, but to make something a woman could really wear when she needed it, like a good friend.

Clothes therefore, must be the insignia of the superiority of man over all other animals, for surely there could be no other reason for wearing the hideous things

Poiret made clothes for individual customers, but I wouldn't like to make a dress just for its own sake.

We don't have to eat the best food to survive: a basic diet will get us through. We wear clothes to stay warm and hide our modesty, they don't need to be the latest designer collection.