Trend Setting Quotes

I have never followed fashion. What is fashion to me? I just think of things that inspire me, that inspire women, and I design that way.

My favorite thing about beauty and fashion in all seasons is that it's a way to reinvent ourselves.

There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.

California serves as our nation's cutting edge on many fronts.

I'll be honest; I'm a student of fashion. I say that because I just wear what I feel. I'm not led by name brands and things like that.

I'm not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

I always say that I don't like it when people follow trends too much, just because it is on the runway. I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.

Fashion tells about who you are from external point of view.

I am trying change trends in movies, just as I am trying to change trends in politics.

The fashion world is so interesting because it's always changing, but if you know yourself really well, despite of all the changes in the fashion trends, you know how to stay true to yourself.

Fashion is really funny because it's something that should be subjective, but there are clear things that are chic or not chic. There are all these rules, but if the right person breaks a rule, then it becomes a trend.

I think it's boring when everybody wears the same brands or the same styles, and it's like, 'Oh, this is the new trend.'

Part of the pleasure of editing 'Vogue,' one that lies in a long tradition of this magazine, is being able to feature those who define the culture at any given moment, who stir things up, whose presence in the world shapes the way it looks and influences the way we see it.

Fashion definitely has the power to change the world.

I'm not sure people understand how important fashion is to me.

Sometimes fashion designers will be like, 'This is what's hot right now, and you will be cool if you wear this,' but sometimes it's too expensive or doesn't look good on me or isn't who I am, and I don't need to just think that what you're saying is what's cool if I have my own identity.

I think Hollywood acts like followers of culture and is constantly seeking to follow trends.

Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself.

Underground people pay a desperate toll finding out things nobody else has discovered yet. We run around like headless chickens looking for the next cultural fix to spiral around in before it gets appropriated somewhere else and becomes something it never was. There's this sort of one-upmanship in the underground.

Mary-Kate and I are very aware of trends and style, but at the end of the day, we don't even think twice about it. It's just, 'What do I feel like wearing today, and how do I want to put it together?'

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.

I guess I've always been really strong minded about what I wear; I've never followed what other people consider fashionable or what styles are happening at the time.

The fashion world is 10,000 times more superficial than the art world. Fashion people are so much crazier than art-world people. They are constantly trying to leech from the art world, but they will never be able to do what we do.

He will be successful who directs his actions according to the spirit of the times, and that he whose actions do not accord with the times will not be successful

You don't learn style from watching people on a runway. Fashion happens every morning when you wake up.