| "Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance." Baltasar Gracian |
| "Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out." Iris Murdoch |
| "Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue." Karl Lagerfeld |
| "This idea of collaborating with designers - that's something I can identify with." Rei Kawakubo |
| "Elegance is elimination." Cristobal Balenciaga |
| "I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution." Raf Simons |
| "I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show." Freddie Mercury |
| "I want to make clothes that are beautiful of course, but also clothes that are interesting and considered and intelligent and not out of place." Miuccia Prada |
| "Good taste doesn't exist. It is our taste. We have to be proud of it." Franco Moschino |
| "Fashion is life-enhancing, and I think it's a lovely, generous thing to do for other people." Vivienne Westwood |
| "I see there is a lot of behaviour in men's fashion...It's a lot about all these kind of clothes that can be easily combined with each other, and it's less...about making a fashion statement." Raf Simons |
| "Men's fashion has a certain heaviness in the fabrics and construction. But also there is a heaviness in the mentality." Hedi Slimane |
| "It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together." Alexander McQueen |
| "If you wear clothes that don't suit you, you're a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better." Vivienne Westwood |
| "No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'll just drape, and I'll sew as I pin it." Alexander Wang |
| "What I find most interesting in fashion is that it has to reflect our time. You have to witness your own moment." Nicolas Ghesquiere |
| "The corporateness of the fashion industry tends to take away or distort the freedom of creation." Rei Kawakubo |
| "I'm very scared sometimes that fashion might attack its own magic by the amount of exposure." Raf Simons |
| "Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment." Alexander McQueen |
| "To me, fashion is like a mirror. It's a reflection of the times. And if it doesn't reflect the times, it's not fashion. Because people aren't gonna be wearing it." Anna Sui |
| "Fashion somehow, for me, is purely and happily irrational." Hedi Slimane |
| "The fashion world doesn't know the word 'stop,' so you have to make sure there are sublime moments every day." Raf Simons |
| "I really think that creating clothes and fashion has to be a statement about how we live and where we live and what's happening in the world." Sarah Burton |
| "My intention is not to make clothes. My head would be too restricted if I only thought about making clothes." Rei Kawakubo |
| "Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume." Vera Wang |
| "I'm usually very attracted to things that I can't define. If something's too clear, it's very often not inspiring to me anymore." Raf Simons |
| "When you focus on the consumer, the consumer responds." Alexander Wang |
| "Fashion has always been a repetition of ideas, but what makes it new is the way you put it together." Carolina Herrera |
| "I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don't know where it's going to lead me, but I follow it." Grace Jones |
| "I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing." Ralph Lauren |
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