Top 1200 Paris Fashion Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.

This (Paris,France) wouldn't be a bad place, but it's full of Frenchmen.

When I look at pictures from when I was younger, I think, "Holy crap, what the hell was I wearing?" I've made it a real mission to fully understand what fashion is all about. I love going to these shows because I love seeing creativity. So when I get to meet these fashion designers, I'm kind of like, "Where did you get the idea to make this? What were you thinking?" Some of that stuff is so crazy and loud.

There should be a name for the syndrome that occurs when you're in Paris and you already miss it.

My favorite films are 'Paris, Texas' and 'Repo Man.'

I think fashion is the only thing I'm fully suited to do because I am super impatient, which I think is a good thing for fashion. I could never work on something for two years. I would do 20 things and finish none of them. I always admire people who have that ability to sustain something for that long a period.

In a few days, I will have them all guillotined in Paris.

I don't really know much about the fashion world. I have a few stylist friends that help me find stuff. So they know all about the vintage fashion world; I just kind of describe to them what I want and they find a lot of it for me.

Fashion is the great governor of this world; it presides, not only in matters of dress and amusement, but in law, physic, politics, religion, and all other things of the gravest kind; indeed, the wisest of men would be puzzled to give any better reason why particular forms in all these have been at certain times universally received, and at others universally rejected, than that they were in or out of fashion.

Fashion is fun, and fashion is a form of art and self-expression. And I think it should have a wink-wink nature to it. For me, it's about the way it makes you feel. If you want to feel sexy, you want to feel bright, you want to feel good. That's what people are attracted to - when they see you execute an emotion or an idea clearly and proudly.

The first thing that strikes a visitor to Paris is a taxi.

I wanted to be into fashion, but I was never the kind of person who could keep up with fashion trends, and I could never style my hair the way everyone else's was - my hair was very thin, so I couldn't do, like, the sprayed bangs everyone else was into.

I think, for so long, women of different sizes have been pigeonholed, and with every campaign, it's always an adaptation of making fashion but for plus sizes. Sometimes it's in a little bit of a negative way, and plus is always a little bit slow to be fashion forward.

There's different shopping in Paris than there is at a bazaar in Istanbul, but they're all wonderful.

My mother loved fashion and always had a great aesthetic. But she also considered the cost of it, with the kids, that it wasn't something to allow herself. It also probably nourished my passion and my will to make fashion, because I've always felt that, because of having a big family to take care of, she sacrificed a bit of her femininity.

I see myself raising my children in Europe, probably in Paris.

If people decide thin is out, the fashion industry won't have thin models anymore. Have you spent time with fashion people? They are ruthless. They want money. And the one thing they know is people want clothes to cover their bodies. Unfortunately, most people aren't comfortable with their bodies.

I don't consider myself a fashion victim. I consider fashion a victim of me.

The moment in Paris where I saluted Napoleon's tomb was one of the proudest of my life.

It is no accident that propels people like us to Paris.

You can leave Paris, but when you come back, you discover it again.

Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.

It's a secret language, known to all different people, in different ways, that enables them to read a subliminal message without realising they're reading it. It affects people on many levels, and even people who think they're not into fashion, or reject fashion are then being informed just in the case of rejecting it. The fact that they had to react against it was a conscious decision.

My fascination with women's clothes began very early. My mother was a very fashionable woman. She also made her own clothes. She had these fashion magazines, and I would draw the women in them. My middle school art teacher suggested that I have a fashion drawing show.

We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women

In college, I was a painter, and I had a strong interest in fashion. I just like this concept of being able to dream something, materialize it, play with it and design it for the sake of someone else and for the sake of the joy in your own heart. So it's kind of like art that you're unattached to. It's art that you give away freely and I liked that about fashion.

I'm looking forward to playing my first match for Paris.

In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.

You come to Paris, you get true originality, and it's wonderful.

Wanna know what heaven is ? Feeling the sun shine on you... In Paris

In Paris, I really do like to try and do nothing... but that's impossible.

We were taught to think that Paris was the center of the universe.

I grew up partially in L.A. and partially in New York. In L.A., anything goes because it's really temperate. There aren't any fashion rules dictated by weather, whereas in New York, of course, there are. New York is seasonal, and also it's a fashion mecca, so people are a little more aware of how they put things together.

The heart of France lies between Brussels and Paris.

I have the feeling that I was born in Vienna in order to live in Paris.

Six months later I was in Paris. I was 16, and it all started to happen.

I live in Paris but I feel I am a daughter of Europe.

Of course I think of the past and of Paris, what else is there to remember?

I'm delighted to extend my contract and commitment to Paris Saint-Germain.

My roots are in Paris, and I will not pull them up.

I like to watch 'Paris, Texas,' but I have no desire to see it. I did it.

Paris must not be a cemetery. I do not wish to reign over the dead.

I studied political science at the Ecole de Sciences Politiques in Paris.

I went to London Fashion Week for the first time, after I got the job [on The Collection ], and it completely changed the way I perceived it. I thought, "This is a far bigger operation than I ever expected, and it has far more worth than I ever gave it before." It definitely changed my view of the fashion world.

I feel like fashion is becoming more inclusive, partly because the industry is finally getting that beauty exists in so many ways, and partly because thanks to Instagram, girls can create their own images, or remix images they're seeing in magazines and fashion shows, in ways that weren't possible before.

Dear London, British fashion is a serious business. The British fashion industry is worth £21bn to the U.K. economy and employs 819,000 people across the country. With your help, we would like to see these numbers rise for the good of our industry, our talented designers, and our reputation worldwide.

I have more friends in New York than Paris.

I was accepted to multiple fashion schools. But I had two kids when I was a teenager. My kids' mom already had two kids when she was still in high school. So I had to be in the streets early. Instead of going to fashion school, I took the street route.

I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.

The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant.

I have a lot of friends in Paris, and I love to get away from home.

I lived in Paris for about nine months. It was an experience.

I envy the people who go to Paris the first time

When we came back to Paris it was clear and cold and lovely.

I was on the cover of French 'Grazia,' which was amazing. It was all over Paris!

I have no idea other than where my readers are located, roughly. They could be 12. They could be 50. I just haven't a clue. I'm hoping my readership is a little wider and broad than what the typical fashion blog gets. I have received emails from a 50-year-old lady in Tel Aviv who says I have revived her passion for fashion.

I published my first poem in 'The Paris Review' in 1980.

Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.

Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.

DEJEUNER, n. The breakfast of an American who has been in Paris. Variously pronounced.