Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Quotations
Fashion
I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!
-Marilyn Monroe
When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald"
In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Make up is generally there to make you look better, not make you look like you're wearing make up.
-Hadley Freeman
When a woman smiles, then her dress should smile too.
-Madeleine Vionnet
Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.
-Coco Chanel
I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.
-Karl Lagerfeld
It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.
-L. M. Montgomery
"Anne of Green Gables"
It is impossible to be completely abstract about clothes because they have no life unless they are worn. They must fit onto a body or they do not exist.
-Elizabeth Hawes
