Clothing Aesthetics Quotes

Nothing ruins the lines of a suit or blazer and makes you look more like a doofus than when your pockets are crammed with stuff - a wallet, a cell phone, keys, a calculator, a calendar, pens, etc.

Whenever I pick up a jacket and it's heavy, I think, 'Oh, I don't want to wear that.'

I think I look better in darker clothes. And maybe the fact that I wear black so much makes me more aware of putting people at ease.

The key to transforming your look with a collar is ensuring that it looks as if it's part of the dress, so there shouldn't be any skin visible underneath.

The detail is as important as the essential is. When it is inadequate, it destroys the whole outfit.

Go to Lord & Taylor on Fifth Avenue, I think it's the eighth floor, and it's just a department called 'Woman.' It's rather devastating. You've never seen such hideous clothes in your entire life. I mean, it's simply appalling. Thank God there are no windows on that floor, because if I were a size 18, I'd throw myself right out the window [after seeing those clothes]. It's insulting what these designers do to these women.

I wouldn't be caught dead in red.

A good style fits like a good costume.

In everyday life, I like APC, Isabel Marant, but I also like Zara. It depends how I'm feeling on the day. I like clothes that have a certain strength to them - simple but graphic.

Ugly is very popular this year...I had a feeling these clothes were deigned by someone who didn't like women.

Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.

I'm not a big fan of shopping. I certainly am a fan of clothes, and especially people that put time into the construction of them.

I was wearing black clothes almost from the beginning. I feel comfortable in black. I felt like black looked good onstage, that it was attractive, so I started wearing it all the time.

It's quite a pure relationship, designer and muse. I think a beautiful dress on the wrong woman could mean nothing. It has to be the right woman and the right clothes. That's why you need that personal touch.

If we get a girl who is bigger than a 4, she is not going to fit the clothes. Clothes look better on thin people. The fabric hangs better.

I don't want people to think that someone gives me something to wear, and I'll put it on.

Clothing has been called intimate architecture. We want to go beyond that.

Cuts of clothes and shapes of clothes are really important.

I love a blouse that's dumb. I love to use the word 'dumb.' It's not knowing, and the word 'blouse' is so out of fashion that I love it - 'a blouse that's dumb.'

Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it's important.

My aesthetic is about simplicity, elegance, and comfort, whether that is interpreted in a man's suit or a track suit.

Never,ever confuse what happens on a runway with fashion. A runway is spectacle. It's only fashion when a woman puts it on. Being well dressed hasn't much to do with having good clothes. It's a question of good balance and good common sense.

The silhouette is the most important thing in clothes. Every French girl knows that. High-waisted trousers give you long legs and a pretty bum which, after all, is what we all want.

I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.

I am not interested in shock tactics. I just want to make beautiful clothes.