From Coco Chanel, 1883-1971:
- Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
- The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
- Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
- There are people who have money and people who are rich.
- In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
Yesterday’s quote from 1854 was a fun discovery. Today I did some digging for more gems.
“The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.”
–Dave Barry
“If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.”
and
“It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it. (referring to clothing)”
–Albert Einstein
“I base my fashion taste on what doesn’t itch.”
–Gildna Radner
“Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other.”
–Unknown
“We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting the best property of all — friends?”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
“No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.”
–Sir Frederick Grant Banting (1891-1941)
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
–Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931)
“…Clean up complexion, soften eye lines, soften smile line, add color to lips, trim chin, remove neck lines, soften line under ear lobe, add highlights to earrings, add blush to cheek, clean up neck line, remove stray hair, remove hair strands from dress, adjust color and add hair on top of head, add dress on side to create better line… Total: $1,525.00.”
–The invoice for photo retouching of Michelle Pfeiffer in the December 1990 issue of Esquire magazine, obtained by Harper’s. The article’s caption reads, “What Michelle Pfeiffer Needs…Is Absolutely Nothing.”
“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.” –Henry David Thoreau, “Walden”, 1854
