Clothing Industry Quotes

I decided to do everything around fashion but fashion itself, and that's accessories.

The few pounds we spend for an item of clothing isn't the true cost - the real cost is the millions of gallons of clean water that was used to grow the fabric, or the millions of gallons of fresh water that was polluted with toxic chemicals to dye the clothes.

I feel so many times with clothing lines, they don't talk to women to see what they want.

Clothing was something I always wanted to do. I've been pulling tear sheets from magazines since I was a little girl.

My mother was a seamstress, so making clothes was not something you would willingly go into.

I am the largest market shareholder of clothing in the U.K. and I am not a destination shop for food. If the clothing market is affected - and it has been - and I hold my market share mathematically, then fine, I am doing no worse than the market is doing, which is exactly the case, but I'm losing revenue.

I never considered the clothing business in college. But my father was a manufacturer of men's wear in the Northeast and wanted to investigate manufacturing in Asia. In 1972 he sent me to Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong for four months. I'm convinced it was his way of getting me into business, rather than letting me be a hippie.

The clothes back in those days were made so much better than clothes are today. They actually took time to make clothes to fit a woman's body. Today they make clothes that fit sizes, so it stretches to fit this and that.

I want to make clothes that make women feel beautiful.

I started my clothing brand when I was 18.

Clothing isn't disposable.

My father had his own business, a clothing store, which he inherited from his father. He travelled abroad frequently and was quite extravagant, so we had skiing holidays and summer holidays on the beach.

I am around ladies' clothing all day long, and I get real sick of clothes.

People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.

You can't separate the clothes from the stores, from the environment.

I believe women do the best womenswear.

It Is Not Linen You're Wearing Out But Human Creatures' Lives.

Fashion designers seem the busiest people on the planet.

Sometimes people have questioned whether I was making fun of the industry or just at myself. I'm just trying to raise a smile. Clothes aren't meant to be worshipped at a church altar.

Ready-to-wear is what I've wanted to do since the beginning. ... I'm not a girl who spends my life in a ballgown

The skinnification of America's jeanscape has gone too far.

I think it's real important to show style now. The majority of style right now is to act like you don't have style at all, so most companies are getting rich off clothes that look torn, clothes that look worn.

I want to be the Joan of Arc of fashion. I want to be the link between the runway and the real woman.

It takes a real designer to design for real women.

After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.