Fashion Culture Quotes

Beyond fashion, I think that culture has a side where they love to shoot you up like a clay pigeon and then take out their rifles. I lived that, and I got to see the perspective from up in the sky.

Many designers are gay men making clothes for women. Sometimes I think fashion is more of a conversation between men than it is for women.

I think it's an old fashioned notion that fashion needs to be exclusive to be fashionable.

Fashion embraces the weirdos. They're into that. There are always young people that people in fashion are interested in. You know, youth and vitality and energy - it brings something different.

The most fascinating part is how fashion just attracts all these social rejects, if you will, from around the world, encourages individuality. They're the people who make the industry tick.

I grew up in a family of people who were obsessed with fashion.

Dressing up. People just don't do it anymore. We have to change that.

My parents never mentioned anything about fashion in our household, instead we used to talk about literature, theatre, and arts...this is why I have kept a real relation with the Art world, by putting books from the beginning in my shops' windows.

The New York fashion scene is crazy, madness, but I love the energy.

For me, music gives a voice to fashion.

Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.

I grew up in Perugia, Umbria, in a world outside of fashion, so I didn't learn about it until I was older and moved away. In Milan, the women are really into fashion, and all the big fashion brands are based there, but I don't think they feel pressure to look good all the time.

The first time I ever came to fashion week, everyone was wearing heels.

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

With time, fashion has become part of my DNA.

I'm one of those girls who enjoys the fashion, enjoys dressing up, enjoys going to these events. They're fun for me. It's like playing a different side of my personality every time, so I look at it as like a fun element of what we do.

I think what's so interesting for people is that I don't take it so seriously and yet I am still immersed in the [fashion] industry.

What's the point in fashion if nobody can wear it?

Fashion makes fools of some, sinners of others, and slaves of all.

I've been into fashion since birth. I grew up in the 'hood, and everybody in the 'hood wants to compensate for being in poverty, so they want to look good to keep themselves up.

'Elle' is such an iconic magazine, and the intersection of fashion and music has always been something that fascinates me.

What's interesting about fashion is it's a world, and I think that's what I've done - I've made a contribution and I think I've built a world. The world is beyond just clothes. Taste and style is beyond clothes. It's in food; it's in quality.

Your women of fashion ceases to be a woman. She is neither mother, nor wife, nor lover. She is, medically speaking, sex on the brain.

Fashion as a whole is a farce, completely. The people behind it are perverted, the styles are created by freaked out people, just natural weirdos. I know this because I worked with all those people while I was modeling.

To me, British fashion has a story. It has history, and I feel it's very much about our culture.