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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)


"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)


"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 quotes (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, b.1940)


“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 looks 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)


"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)



Quotes and deep thoughts about life

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond imagination. It is our light more than our darkness which scares us. We ask ourselves - who are we to be brilliant, beautiful, talented, and fabulous. But honestly, who are you to not be so?

You are a child of God, small games do not work in this world. For those around us to feel peace, it is not example to make ourselves small. We were born to express the glory of God that lives in us. It is not in some of us, it is in all of us. While we allow our light to shine, we unconsciously give permission for others to do the same. When we liberate ourselves from our own fears, simply our presence may liberate others."
Marianne Williamson from A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles


"You have the ability to improve every aspect of your life."
Kim Bolsover, Improvability


"It's never too late to be the person you could have been."
George Eliot


"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture little way past them into the impossible."
Arthur C. Clarke


"He who never made a mistake never made a discovery."
Samuel Smiles


"What would life be like if we had no courage to attempt anything?"
Vincent Van Gogh


"If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade."
Tom Peters"


"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them."

Henry David Thoreau


"If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!"
Jonathan Winters


"If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn'l lead anywhere."
Frank A Clark


"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever."
Lance Armstrong


"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission."
Eleanor
Roosevelt


You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.”
Jim Rohn

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"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age."
Lucille Ball


"Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."
Demosthenes


"No matter how talented you are or how hard you try, if you don't know the rules you don't succeed."
John Gray (author)


"Go as far as the eye can see and when you get there, look further."
Unknown


"It is hard to beat a person who never quits."
Babe Ruth


"Let him that would move the world first move himself."
Socrates


"All people occasionally stumble acros the truth, but most pick themselves up and continue as if nothing had happened."
Winston Churchill


"He who focuses on only his own needs often doesn't end up with very much."
Anonymous


"Great spirits will always encounter violent opposition from mediocre minds."
Albert Einstein (German Physicist, 1879 - 1955)


"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, magic and power in it. Begin it now"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Poet, 1749 - 1832)


"Self trust is the first secret to success."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (American Poet, 1803 - 1882)


"You can't teach anybody anything, only make them realise the answers are already inside them."
Galileo


"If you are not failing now and again, it's a sign that you're playing it safe."
Woody Allen (actor and director)


"Be a bridge over troubled water. Never fail to be a friend indeed when you see a friend in need. Often the bridge you build over troubled water is the very bridge you yourself may need to cross.

The story is told of a young man hiking through the mountains, when a sudden blinding storm struck. The entire area was covered with deep snow. Before long, the hiker's hands and feet grew numb as he wandered through the storm and snow in search of shelter. Just then he came upon an older man who had collapsed in the snow. "Are you OK?" asked the hiker. "I'm so cold and so tired," the weary man stammered. "My legs are numb, and I don't think I have the strength to go any further." The hiker responded: "Let me help you." He then removed his gloves and began rubbing the man's arms and legs. After several minutes of this gentle massage, the man felt strong enough to stand on his feet.

The two men, supporting each other, made their way through the storm. Once they reached safety and shelter, the younger man thanked the other for all his help. "Thank me?" said the older man. "I never would have made it out of there if it wasn't for you. I owe you my life," he said. "No, you don't understand," responded the younger man. "I was tired, cold, and ready to give up. Helping you gave me the strength and determination to carry on. I owe you everything."
Victor M. Parachin (Ordained minister and author)


"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
Dr. Seuss


"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
Sir Winston Churchill


"Most people fail in life because they major in minor things."
Anthony Robbins


"When you go for the impossible you make way for the incredible."
Anonymous


Five Short Chapters
(Taken from There’s a Hole in My Stomach by Portia Nelson)

 I walk down the street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I fall in.
I am lost. I am helpless.
It isn’t my fault.
It takes forever to find a way out.

I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I pretend I don’t see it.
I fall in again.
I can’t believe I am in the same place.
But, it isn’t my fault.
It still takes a long time to get out.

I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I see it is there.
I still fall in. It’s a habit.
My eyes are open.
I know where I am.
It is my fault. I get out immediately.

I walk down the same street.
There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.
I walk around it.

I walk down another street.

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