Fashion Language Quotes

Even if I'm in Japan and I don't speak Japanese and the woman facing me doesn't speak French but she's dressed in Rykiel, and she recognizes me, then we have a common language right away.

I have a vocabulary in clothing. It's like a whole language.

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

Designers become translators for me. That's why I've gone to people like Gareth Pugh and Viktor and Rolf - they are speaking a nuanced language. Fashion says a lot for me.

At Ungaro, I discovered the flou and the language of Paris.

Fashion choices are never arbitrary. Even if you say you don't care, that's a decision. There's something you're trying to say.

Some people think fashion is frivolous but it's not... it's just that some ideas come and go quickly, and that's the nature of the language of fashion.

Fashion matters to the degree that it is, for the sighted person, the first language we speak to each other. We are... "judge" is a very harsh word, but we're taking in and we're evaluating. Who is this person? What do I have in common? Do I respect them? All of that is that unspoken visual impact.

Even when we say nothing our clothes are talking noisily to everyone who sees us, telling them who we are, where we come from, what we like to do in bed and a dozen other intimate things.

What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today when human contacts go so fast. Fashion is instant language.