Fashion Authority Quotes

Fashion designers are dictators of taste.

I'm becoming the Simon Cowell of fashion.

I am a perfectionist. This job is a total ego thing in a way. To be a designer and say, 'This is the way they should dress; this is the way their homes should look; this is the way the world should be.' But then, that's the goal: world domination through style.

Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.

Bill Cunningham... he knows fashion better than anybody.

We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.

Diana Vreeland was "the Empress," the avatar of the age. An old name or old money were not enough to get you into Studio 54 - or Interview magazine, for that matter. You had to have a lot of something else, like looks or brains or wit or fabulous clothes.

'Vogue' is the best of everything that fashion can offer, and I think we point the way. We are, you know, a glamorous girlfriend.

'Vogue' has the power to make and break - whether it's fashion trends, designers, models, and yes, even industry practices.

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.

Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer.

I would like better to be known as the Godfather of Fashion, with all the implications that that word has.

I think the 'Harpers Bazaar' woman is not a fashion victim; she understands fashion but is not a victim, you know.

The mere leader of fashion has no genuine claim to supremacy; at least, no abiding assurance of it. He has embroidered his title upon his waistcoat, and carries his worth in his watch chain; and, if he is allowed any real precedence for this it is almost a moral swindle,--a way of obtaining goods under false pretences.