Alexander McQueen Quotes

 Lee Alexander McQueen,(17 March 1969 – 11 February 2010) was a British fashion designer and couturier best known for his in-depth knowledge of bespoke British tailoring, his tendency to juxtapose female strength and sensuality with fragility in his collections, as well as the emotional power and raw energy of his provocative fashion shows.He is also known for having worked as chief designer at Givenchy from 1996 to 2001 and for founding his own label under the name Alexander McQueen.His achievements in fashion earned him four British Designer of the Year awards (1996, 1997, 2001 and 2003), as well as the CFDA's International Designer of the Year award in 2003.

• “What we do have in London is a fantastic pool of talent coming through the colleges. We are the fashion world's incubator.”
• “I have so much respect for him, and I don't even think he will mind.”
• “I kind of like it the way it is right now, ... I believe in that one-on-one sell. I don't really believe in flooding the market with loads of goods that don't mean much, and (you) lose your identity.”
• “If you ask any lady they want to be taller, they want to be slimmer, you know, and they want a waist. I'm not here to make people look like a sack of potatoes.”
• “The pink sheep of the family”
• "British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage. "
• "I think the idea of mixing luxury and mass-market fashion is very modern - wearing head-to-toe designer has become a bit passe. 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. "
• "Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers."

Coco Chanel Quotes

Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel (19 August 1883 – 10 January 1971) was a pioneering French fashion designer whose modernist philosophy, menswear-inspired fashions, and pursuit of expensive simplicity made her an important figure in 20th-century fashion. She was the founder of one of the most famous fashion brands, Chanel. Her extraordinary influence on fashion was such that she was the only person in the couturier field to be named on Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century

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• "You should be two things : classy and fabulous "
• “Fashion is made to become unfashionable.”
• “I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.”
• “Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty”
• “Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.”
• “I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.”
• “There are people who have money and people who are rich.”
• “There is time for work, and time for love. That leaves no other time”
• “Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.”
• “There goes a woman who knows all the things that can be taught and none of the things that cannot be taught”
• “I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.”
• “If a man talks bad about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman”
• “A woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed”
• “Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.”
• “A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.”
• “"The best color in the whole world, is the one that looks good, on you!”
• “As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!"”
• “Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”
• “How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.”
• “Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”
• “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.”
• “Fashion fades, only style remains the same.”
• “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.”
• “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”