With all the hundreds of dresses and shoes I have, it would be an absolute crime if I don’t have a little girl. I have a whole room at home filled with my stage wear.
I will buy sun dresses that I rip, burn and distress and then sew them back together.
Cardigans. I stock up on them – I own tons. They go great over dresses and help them transition from season to season.
The new generation of designers, like Prabal Gurung and Alexander Wang, have hundreds of thousands following them on social media who will probably never be able to afford their dresses but still feel a loyalty to them. So when that designer writes a book or launches a beauty line, they might pick that up.
When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.
I wanted to try and get out of the stereotypical Geordie girl. I stopped wearing fake tan and wore WAG dresses. But I was really miserable.
My mom and dad bought me colorful fruit-patterned dresses from Kenzo when I was really young. I wanted to wear them all year round, even in the snow!
My wardrobe falls into two camps most of the time: either very monochromatic and tailored or really vintagey, with ’30s and ’40s-style long floral dresses. I don’t buy that much, so every time I invest in something new, it has to elevate what I have hanging in my closet.
We’re trying to get away from the three D’s: dresses, dolls and diaries.
In Europe, everybody does that. Every team goes looking the exact same way every time to play. Depending what is your team, you can go all with the same sweats, you can go all with the same suits, but usually everybody dresses to travel the same.
To be a couture designer is not only to create dresses but to adapt your line to your private customers. It is why couture is expensive. You are like a doctor.
From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I’d use difficult fabrics such as Lycra and elastic. But you know, my dad was creative and my brother is inventive too.
My mom is a woman who grew up in a small farming village in the West Bank called Beit Ur El Foka. She only went to school up to 8th grade and then dropped out to go work in a tailor shop that made dresses and different embroidered designs to make money for her family.
I love the dresses I wear, I think they are beautiful and until I think differently, I’ll carry on.
I always pack lots of loose linen shirts and denim cut offs, Converse, vintage Reformation sun dresses, gold jewellery, and statement shades. Plus a trunk full of swimwear, of course.
I don’t wear strappy tops. Everyone feels self-conscious about something on their body. It’s just finding a style that works for you, and I don’t really suit strappy tops or dresses, so I avoid them.
Some designers retain a sense of humour about what they do, but others are deathly serious and have no life outside of it; they’re lying awake night after night constructing dresses in their heads.
I’ve never felt that I had to take a role in one of those mediocre but hugely budgeted romantic comedies because I want to wear beautiful dresses and have people think I’m pretty and that I get the guy.
I always love long shirt dresses with hand painting on it. It’s just wonderful.
I believe all woman look good in dresses; is that a crime?
When ‘Avatar’ came out, we were out non-stop for a year and a half doing red carpet events. I had a stylist who helped me, but it was really hard, and we couldn’t find many sustainable dresses.
I used to collect vintage clothing – exquisite lace dresses, embroidered shawls and ornate jewelry – but that’s just not me any more.
My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters.
I think I’m just really in love with women, and I love to see them looking incredibly, truly beautiful. I think every time a woman wears one of my dresses, you know, in a matter of speaking, I’m having a little love affair with her!
It’s a Japanese way of thinking, that I give value for my merchandise. So I don’t want to sell unnecessarily expensive dresses and make just 10 or 20 and then feel satisfied. I want to design for real women who can afford my dresses.
Davos is probably the world’s most elite society, but it dresses itself up as a non-elite event. Don’t be fooled. You must wear a specially coloured badge, which shrieks your status to others.
Nick Aldis is a great champion. He looks like a professional athlete. He dresses like one. He carries it well.
When you’re pregnant you just want to be comfortable – but I wear more or less the same as I do when I’m not pregnant: pregnancy denim with normal tops and flat shoes. But when the belly starts to really stick out, I’ll want the floaty dresses!
I love Tilda Swinton and the way she dresses. She always looks like a piece of art.
I take very seriously the creation process, but I take the red carpet, the dresses with the trains, the hair, and the makeup very lightly.
It’s what I’ve trained for, from the first sketch to the fabric. Making dresses that are different from the usual style, and a lot of fun to wear.
I like vintage dresses that I can just slip on.
I’ll always cling to these little girl dresses at vintage shops, and I can never wear them because they’re so tiny!
Very fitted dresses look much better on TV, even though in reality they might be so tight that I can barely move in them.
Adolescence isn’t just about prom or wearing sparkly dresses.
I absolutely adore Alessandra Rich, I think her dresses are stunning and she really knows how to cut and dress the female shape. Her stuff is really beautiful, stylish and a little bit quirky. I love it all!
I like some pants; I just don’t like jeans very much. Dresses are so much easier because I don’t have to think very hard.
My first real foray into fashion was the discovery of vintage. Vintage dresses really suit my body type, so the discovery was both wonderfully eye-opening and liberating.
Skating is really hard, especially women’s skating where we’re judged in little tiny dresses.
I didn’t have cable television growing up; there were only six channels you could watch then. The only really good channel was channel 10, and they would play ‘The Nanny Called Fran’ every night for years. I’ve seen every episode 100 times. I would get my Grandma to make me leopard skin dresses on her sewing machine.
Women try to be the best everywhere, and it’s impossible. I want my clothes to give women the freedom to just be – I want them to put on my dresses and shine.
Women must know themselves better than anyone. If you have ugly legs, wear long dresses. If you have long, great legs, show them.
Hair pieces and head dresses have always been something that’s been part of my culture.
My name is on the door, and I care very much about the design that gets put out. I’m sorry, but it has to be my way. You learn that by working for people like I. M. Pei. You think he isn’t a design tyrant? Is Calvin Klein a tyrant? When it came to his dresses, he had to be.
There is a choice you can make. You can want to be a firework and are comfortable with fame. You love it and you want to wear nice dresses and do all that stuff. I don’t want to do things like that.
I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children. Some of the teachers were just doing their job, but others had that little extra. They really cared about children and they wore pretty dresses.
There was quite a ruckus about the seven ladies in their simple colored dresses. I was truly dumbfounded that I was, right then and there, deemed the biggest threat to black men since cotton pickin’, and not all women were in my corner, either.
My dad is the Frenchest man alive, but totally dresses like a cowboy and is obsessed with vintage.
If a straight man dresses well, chances are he’s not straight.
I love dresses that just skim the body, that suggest what’s underneath rather than display it.
I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother’s or your grandmother’s dresses and high heels.
There is room in today’s world for men to wear dresses.
I have a great admiration and tenderness for Azzedine Alaia. I haven’t seen him in a while, but I guess he must be still sewing some dresses at night.
Every black film feels like it’s Tyler Perry, and that just needs to stop. But people seem to slowly be looking for what else is out there – ‘Is there something else besides this type of humor?’ ‘I’m tired of seeing men in dresses.’
The fact that I can go to a museum and I can see one of my dresses there I start to think, ‘Crikey!’
I’m very into dresses, shoes, and makeup.
Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: ‘This looks much better on.’ On what? On fire?
Growing up, I was never the kind of girl to dream about wedding dresses and pretty houses.
Maxi dresses are also my best friend. They take me from my morning coffee, to the beach, to nighttime.
I love dresses best because I enjoy being a woman.
I liked wearing the ’50s wardrobe. It was hard in the beginning. The first shows I wore regular young girl dresses. Then a little later I got to wear the poodle skirts and such.
