A woman's dress should be like a
barbed- wire fence: serving its purpose
without obstructing the view.
?Sophia Loren
Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
?Alexander Pope
A good model can advance
fashion by ten years.
?Yves Saint Laurent
A wisp of gossamer, about the size
and substance of a spider's web.
?Monica Baldwin
Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.
?George Bernard Shaw
About half my designs are controlled fantasy,
15 percent are total madness and the rest are
bread-and-butter designs.
?Manolo Blahnik
A fashion is merely a form of ugliness
so unbearable that we are compelled
to alter it every six months.
?Oscar Wilde
All the American women had purple noses
and gray lips and their faces were chalk
white from terrible powder. I recognized that the
United States could be my life's work.
?Helena Rubinstein
A designer is only as good as the
star who wears her clothes.
?Edith Head
