Sister Parish Quotes

I think that fashion is industrial, whereas style is ideological. So they're not necessarily connected.

Labels don't really impress, it's the uniqueness and risk in decor that inspire.

I used to dress like an eight-year-old boy. Traveling has inspired me to be more experimental.

I chose art, music, of course fashion, clothes, colors. I'm just expressing what I have inside and bringing it out.

I'm not a fashionista - I adore creative and original people with their own style.

Fashion is not about buying a second skin. Fashion is about having a fantasy.

Draw a line; draw a line that pleases you. And remember that it is not the artist's role to copy the outlines of things but to create a world of his own lines on paper." (pp.28-29)

I made clothes because I was looking for something that didn't exist. I had to try to create my own world.

I think fashion is intensely personal. It should be. It should give a woman a creative outlet, it should give her a little bit of an escape, and it should give her a little bit of individuality that she can add to her life. I don't mean redoing your entire closet. I mean that a great shoe or a great handbag or a great top or a great coat or jacket can change everything.

The things that are more my own style are something that I don't really have to think about. The only time I have to think about them is if I want to force myself not to do it the way I do it.

I always say to people, the Eighties were so inventive because people wanted to stand out. By the time we got to the Nineties, everyone wanted to fit in. It was all about having the same pair of trainers and the same pair of jeans. That's fatal. Whereas the Eighties you would never be seen in the same pair of jeans that somebody else was wearing.

We all have to fight to maintain our unique style and taste in a world that would have us conform.

I was working in this very bombastic style. I didn't really know about style. I didn't think about it: I did what I was interested in, what I was attracted to, what I was drawn to. I was drawn to color, and I was drawn to humor, and I was drawn to sexuality and spontaneity. It was all really intuitive. I never really thought, "Well this is the style...

I think that fashion is very important for me and I think that it's a wonderful means of self-expression.

When you freely express, you are the total style.

The point of fashion is that you take the picture you want. And fashion is the only photography that allows fantasy, and I'm a fantasist.

Every production must resemble its author.

Every human being is an artist

Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.

We didn't think about it but we never wanted to sound like anybody else.

The key thing is, don't worry about if anyone is reading you or not. Figure out your voice and figure out what you want to write about, what you're good at, what you like doing.

If you try all different styles that are in vogue, I think you con yourself. Me, I just stick by my guns; I don't want to play out of another man's bag.

Each person has their own brand and style and the way they do things.

I'm alienated from this world because its weird and I don't want to be a part of it. I want to be part of the people that are more imaginative and crazy.

Creativity is absolutely for everyone. I firmly believe this. I think if you're the driest accountant with the plastic pocket pen protector it's in how you interact with the world. There is artistry in everything that we do and there is expression in everything that we do.