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"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening."
Coco Chanel (French fashion designer, 1883-1971)

"Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly."
Epictetus, Greek philosopher

"We only move style forward when we embrace the past, cherish the present and look toward the future."
Uriel Saenz

"Fashion is made to become unfashionable."
Coco Chanel

"Schools are repainting their classrooms using colour codes to influence the way pupils behave. Research shows that shades of blue calm children and help them sit quietly during lessons. It also improves performance in English and Maths. Warmer colours, however, encourage extrovert behaviour; ideal for subjects such as drama and sport."
Sunday Express (8/1/06)

"“I like my clothes tight enough to show I’m a woman, but loose enough to show I’m a lady.” Mae West

"We read off the many signals that our companions' clothes transmit to us in every social encounter. In this way, clothing is as much a part of human body language as gestures, facial expressions and postures.

Even those people who insist that they despise attention to clothing, and dress as casually as possible, are making quite specific comments on their social roles and their attitudes towards the culture in which they live."
Desmond Morris, Manwatching

"There is no model, there is only colour."
Paul Cezanne (artist)

"It's a fact of life that how you dress affects how you are perceived and whether your contribution to a meeting is registered as worth listening to. It was most alarming the way people's attitudes changed when I started wearing my designer suits to committee meetings. Obviously, it's not just the clothes that count; you have got to have something worth saying. But it si true that some people's views are dismissed before they speak because others perceive them as just a secretary!"
Stephanie Ellis, Civil Servant

"It's important to look neat and tidy and not be too flashily dressed. If you look untidy, you're considered to have an untidy mind - it's as simple as that!"
Lynda Chalker MP, Flying High

"What you have in your closet reveals what kind of job you have, what magazines you read, how creative you are, even where you went to college."
Nina Garin, Journalist

"Good clothes open all doors."
Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)

"Not caring how you look is but a brief step away from not caring what you do or how you treat people. And surely, if you treat yourself with contempt, you're going to have little thought, care or compassion for anyone else."
Lynda Lee Potter (Journalist, Daily Mail)

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
Oscar Wilde (English author, 1854 - 1900)

"Apparel oft proclaims the man."
William Shakespeare (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616)

“It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions”
Voltaire (French philosopher and writer, 1694-1778)

"We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions. No woman can be well dressed unless she is comfortable in what she is wearing."
Bill Blass

"Dress gives one the outward sign from which people in general can, and often do, judge upon the inward state of mind and feelings."
H.M. The Queen

"It's always better to be looked over than over-looked."
Mae West

"You can have whatever you want if you dress for it."
Edith Head

“Fashions fade, style is eternal.”
Yves Saint Laurent (French fashion designer, 1940 - 2009)

“Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.”
Coco Chanel (French fashion designer who ruled over Parisian haute couture for almost six decades, 1883-1971)

“The difference between style and fashion is quality.”
Giorgio Armani

“I'm not that interested in fashion... When someone says that lime-green is the new black for this season, you just want to tell them to get a life.”
Bruce Oldfield (English fashion designer. b.1950)

“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”
Henry David Thoreau (American essayist, poet and philosopher, 1817-1862)

“Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.”
Quentin Crisp (English author, 1908-1999)

“Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make ourselves its slave.”
Napoleon Bonaparte (French general, politician and Emperor (1804-14). 1769-1821)

"Fashion is a tool... to compete in life outside the home. People like you better, without knowing why, because people always react well to a person they like the look of."
Mary Quant (English fashion designer, b. 1934)

“The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.”
Dave Barry (American writer and humorist, b.1947)

“I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.”
Marlene Dietrich (German-born American actress, 1901-1992)

“What a deformed thief this fashion is.”
William Shakespeare (English dramatist, playwright and poet, 1564-1616)

"I almost resent the whole fashion thing. Good God- never wearing the same thing twice and all of those things. It's a pain in the ass."
Jennifer Aniston (American actress)

"A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic."
George Bernard Shaw (Irish dramatist, 1856 - 1950)

“It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.”
Coco Chanel (French Fashion designer, 1883-1971)

"I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch."
Gilda Radner (American actress, 1946 - 1989)

"Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly."
Cecil Beaton (1904 - 1980)

"For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends."
Meryl Streep (American actress, b. 1949)

"Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding."
Queen Marie of Romania (1875 - 1938)

"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion.
Lillian Hellman (American dramatist, 1907 - 1084)

"It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion."
Yves Saint Laurent (French fashion designer, b. 1936)

“Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.”
Elsa Schiaparelli (Italian-born French fashion designer,1896-1973)

"I  refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows."
Janette Barber

"Fashion, as we knew it, is over; people wear now exactly what they feel like wearing."
Mary Quant (English fashion designer, b. 1934)

“So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.”
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach (Austrian novelist, 1830-1916)

"I love fashion, but I'm not obsessed with it."
Christy Turlington (American model, b. 1969)

"Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine."
Donatella Versace (Italian fashion designer, b. 1955)

"That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live."
Gianni Versace (Italian fashion designer, 1946 - 1997)

"In business you are dressing to have an impact on your bosses and teammates. If your clothes don't convey the message that you are competent, able, ambitious, self-confident, reliable and authoritative, nothing you say or do will overcome the negative signals emanating from your apparel."
Betty Harragan (author - Games Mother Never Taught You)

“When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.”
Jean Giraudoux (French novelist, essayist and playwright, 1882-1944)

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