10 Notable Quotations on Fashion from the Experts
So many people want to be fashion icons, but so very few actually make it in this world. But for those who somehow manage to make the leap and succeed as legends in their own time, their experiences and wisdom deserves to be passed on to generations of aspiring fashionistas. It's not just downtown hipsters who should pay heed to the words of their elders. Regular women looking for a bit of inspiration for their daily fashion and attitude would do well to listen to words on fashion from the experts, too.
No list of quotes on fashion would be complete without the reigning queen of it all, Coco Chanel. Practically the most powerful woman to ever exist in couture, Chanel understood what it meant to work hard, and also understand what it was that made a woman beautiful. She also always had something to say about style, like this famous and often-repeated quote: "A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs."
One of the world's most important supermodels, Tyra Banks has made a lifelong career out of what started as a career walking the runway. With her insight, she has many nuggets of wisdom to offer the world, on modeling, such as this: " A smart model is a good model."
Part model, part musician, part actress, Grace Jones was one of the seminal figures of the 1970s downtown New York scene. Her influence in the modeling world is still felt, and she was one of the few performers who did a truly decadent job of dressing herself: "Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy."
Wolfgang Tillmans is very familiar with models and designers, having photographed them all for years now. Famous quote: "Magazines have always been an active platform which I can use to disseminate my work, but also a generator of work when I'm commissioned to do something. If I approach these pictures as a potential to make actual work rather than just as a job, then this is good for my practice. That's an element that never really gets thought about in terms of my magazine work. I use magazines as a tool to make work."
Once a fixture of the explosive after-hours seen in 1980s London, Simon Foxton still lives and works as a stylist today. He was one of the first stylists of the 1980s to make it from the club flyers to the glossy magazines of Milan and New York. Famous quote: "For the last three or four decades it has been the streets [setting trends], and maybe now it's gone back to the designers again and they're the ones who are coming up with the goods and setting the trends."
Not necessarily a fashion icon of our time, the wit and wisdom of writer Oscar Wilde has inspired many a fashion designer with an interest in biting satire and foppish dandyness: "Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
One of the first supermodels, Cindy Crawford definitely saw the world of modeling change in the middle of one of the most prolific times for fashion in the States. Her candid interviews have led to helpful words of wisdom, like this one: " Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.
No list of quotes on fashion would be complete without the reigning queen of it all, Coco Chanel. Practically the most powerful woman to ever exist in couture, Chanel understood what it meant to work hard, and also understand what it was that made a woman beautiful. She also always had something to say about style, like this famous and often-repeated quote: "A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs."
One of the world's most important supermodels, Tyra Banks has made a lifelong career out of what started as a career walking the runway. With her insight, she has many nuggets of wisdom to offer the world, on modeling, such as this: " A smart model is a good model."
Part model, part musician, part actress, Grace Jones was one of the seminal figures of the 1970s downtown New York scene. Her influence in the modeling world is still felt, and she was one of the few performers who did a truly decadent job of dressing herself: "Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy."
Wolfgang Tillmans is very familiar with models and designers, having photographed them all for years now. Famous quote: "Magazines have always been an active platform which I can use to disseminate my work, but also a generator of work when I'm commissioned to do something. If I approach these pictures as a potential to make actual work rather than just as a job, then this is good for my practice. That's an element that never really gets thought about in terms of my magazine work. I use magazines as a tool to make work."
Once a fixture of the explosive after-hours seen in 1980s London, Simon Foxton still lives and works as a stylist today. He was one of the first stylists of the 1980s to make it from the club flyers to the glossy magazines of Milan and New York. Famous quote: "For the last three or four decades it has been the streets [setting trends], and maybe now it's gone back to the designers again and they're the ones who are coming up with the goods and setting the trends."
Not necessarily a fashion icon of our time, the wit and wisdom of writer Oscar Wilde has inspired many a fashion designer with an interest in biting satire and foppish dandyness: "Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
One of the first supermodels, Cindy Crawford definitely saw the world of modeling change in the middle of one of the most prolific times for fashion in the States. Her candid interviews have led to helpful words of wisdom, like this one: " Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.
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Jayde Johannsen loves analyzing style. This is why she put together the Women's Shoes website. It has a section on all the major shoe types, including women's dress shoes
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