Fashion Forecasting Quotes

What's interesting about textiles is that they are determined about three seasons in advance, that's why when you walk into a store you think "Gee, everything looks about the same."

Very often, the world of fashion depends on having the right look at the right time.

One of the weird things about being a designer is guessing what the world will want about a year in advance of when they will want it. It becomes almost a psychological test in a way - how do I feel now and how do I want to feel then.

I tried to show that fashion is an art. For that, I followed the counsel of my master Christian Dior and the imperishable lesson of Mademoiselle Chanel. I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

For me, it's important to anticipate where fashion is heading.

I know clothing very well and I'm sure I will get into fashion eventually.

Fashion anticipates.

What Hollywood designs today, you will be wearing tomorrow.

Before I really became interested in fashion, all I would look at in a fashion magazine was the ads. It only dawned on me recently that just looking at the ads really doesn't teach you everything you need to know about the fashion world.

I've always been interested in fashion, the clothes, but I'm not that familiar with the fashion industry; for me it just comes out of quite an innocent sense of style.

I follow fashion trends.

I learned that fashion was about more than fancy images. That there was a business side as well.

it is a shoe designer's job to be a year ahead of our collective unconscious.

In fashion, people are very focused on the future, but I really love to talk about the present.

Well I think any designer that can understand what people need to be wearing right now is the biggest and best step that you can take. Instead of putting your ego first, you put the buyer first. And I think that that's a really important thing just to know what the consumer is wanting to wear.

It's difficult to choose a Word of the Year in the year that you're in. It's one of those things that hindsight makes more apparent. It's like looking at pictures from 10 years ago, and you notice the flannel and the ripped jeans. At the time, it didn't look to you like a real fashion trend.

I love that I can dream about paisley, and then two months later, someone's wearing it. I'm basically styling America.