Top 75 Fashion Industry Quotes

I don’t care what you call me. I’m glad to even have a place in this fashion industry. Plus-size, straight-size, in-betweenie – I don’t care regardless.

I was very honoured to be awarded an OBE in 2016 for my services to diversity in the fashion industry.

The fashion industry isn’t merely content to encase my meaty flanks in skintight denim. Oh, no! That denim also has to be white, a color that attracts ketchup, wine, garlic aioli, and any other foodstuffs I might otherwise be able to enjoy if I wasn’t wearing ridiculously tight pants.

Whether an economic boom is fueled by the fashion industry or technology innovations, it needs a brick-and-mortar foundation. This is not only true in New York and San Francisco; wherever you live, you can find a local hotspot positioned to attract interest from businesses, consumers and investors.

When I was first in the fashion industry, I would get hired for a day and be thankful that they wanted me back the following day. There was no long-term security.

I definitely like clothes as much as the next girl, just not to the extent of people who work in the fashion industry.

I wasn’t scouted in the mall as a kid; it just kinda happened naturally ’cause of Instagram and New York and being visible, which is cool. Things just started rolling in. Timing was in my favour ’cause the Internet acted as a catalyst for the fashion industry to change and be more open ’cause people demanded it.

I have no idea what’s going on in the fashion industry.

We are one and the same. Our hearts beat as one. If we put our hearts into it – the fashion industry, any industry – our lives will be changed in the process, and the world will be changed as well.

Social media forced us to look at the bigger picture. More people are standing up saying, ‘Hey, wait, this is beautiful, too,’ and the fashion industry is listening.

I saw how much money people spent in the fashion industry, and I was like, ‘Oh, man, if someone can spend this much on clothes, they certainly can spend five dollars a month on causes.’

It’s very exciting to have this great opportunity to interview designers for PopSugar. This is certainly my first step toward making my debut in the fashion industry.

A lot of self-importance goes on in the fashion industry. I’m not like that.

The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you’re working with a really good photographer.

I think the fashion industry has gotten to a place where it is embarrassing.

When I first started modeling, I realised I was very different from many of my colleagues, but I welcomed the opportunities my career in fashion offered me and the support from many inspiring individuals in the fashion industry.

I think it’s just that the fashion industry can only accept one thing at a time. It’s like, ‘OK, well, if we’re going to add plus, then let’s keep it hourglass and white.’

MTV in general is involved with so many artists – musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.

But if you are young and want to work in the fashion industry and are not naturally skinny – which most girls are not – then you are forced to be unhealthy.

At a certain period in time, the fashion industry was portraying this image of a totally unrealistic woman, women who are not allowed to be themselves.

I originally went to Edinburgh for Latin, which I love and the literature is incredible, but then I suddenly realised that languages are so crucial for working in the fashion industry and it is wonderful when you can communicate with everyone.

I’ve always had an affinity for the fashion industry – I’ve always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.

You see, in the fashion industry, everybody either knows each other or is linked to one another. If you’re not part of their inner circle, things can be hard.

I think the fashion industry and the media industry in general have a responsibility to make sure that they celebrate the rich differences in all our backgrounds to make sure we don’t fall into the trap of reducing beauty to one specific mold.

I do think that people outside the fashion industry imagine that being a model is what you might call quick, easy money, but it can be very lonely – you have to be quite tough. It’s also very physically demanding.

I’m getting my respect as a video director. The fashion industry respects me and knows who I am.

I was so proud of my team and myself for changing the rules of the fashion industry.

I don’t do many social events in the fashion industry. Instead, I go to things like the MTV awards because that’s where I fit in – wearing a yellow tuxedo and no shirt on a red carpet.

I’ve grown up with a lot of my family in the fashion industry, so I’ve wanted to be part of it for as long as I can remember.

This sounds crazy, but I was born in the fashion industry. So, I probably wore heels by the age of two. When I was two, I would steal my mom’s heels.

I wasn’t a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.

I used to get scouted outside of Topshop and stuff, and I was brought up in the fashion industry and did a few shoots when I was young, which was always fun to get dressed up.

I thought I wanted to get into hair and make-up, which I did for a short time, and then I fell in with a stylist by chance and very soon fell in love with everything about the fashion industry.

I invited a group of students to my studio to expose them to both the creative and business sides of the fashion industry. It was fun because the group was so bright and full of curiosity. They asked really challenging questions about all aspects of the business and absorbed so much information so quickly.

My parents had a factory, so I was linked to the textile and fashion industry.

For so long, the fashion industry has designed almost exclusively for a particular woman with particular measurements, and they’ve never really been challenged on it. We’re all consumers, yet we’re rarely given a voice within this industry that dictates what we wear.

I certainly think it’s important to build relationships with movers and shakers in the fashion industry.

The fashion industry is the worst possible vessel for conveying an ethical message about anything.

There are a bunch of different ways to look at the fashion industry. Is it shallow to work in fashion? Yes, it can be. But does fashion transform a woman who might feel like nothing and unimportant to glamorous and gorgeous? Yes, it does. Does it employ a huge sector of America? Yes, it does.

I thought at 46 years old, I’ve been removed from the fashion industry for 10 years. I couldn’t possibly write a model’s book. That’s for a 20-year-old. But I could say what I want to say without chastising the industry.

The British fashion industry had major players, Mary Quant and Biba to name but a few, who were making incredibly stylish and youthful clothing for a generation who didn’t want to emulate their parents.

I had a taste for this fashion industry that I loved and wanted to be a part of.

I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they’re about the exuberance of youth. That’s the sort of subliminal ideology.

We have captured a luxury and richness with our fur-free fur, which is proof to the fashion industry that killing animals for the sake of fashion is unnecessary.

I never wanted to design clothes. I never wanted to work for the fashion industry. Shoes sort of belong to the fashion industry, which is why I’m part of the fashion industry. But that’s never been my thought. My thought since I was a child was really to design those shoes for girls on stage.

I care about how I look, but I don’t care about the fashion industry.

I actually have great respect for the professionals on both sides, journalism designers in the fashion industry, and I wanted to make a movie that celebrated what they did as much as poke fun at the challenges of their lives.

I’m not an elitist. I hate the fashion industry sometimes because it becomes so focused on the elite.

People in the fashion industry have used the press a lot more than people in the film industry, because you have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything.

I don’t really have a style icon but I really admire the way people dress like Gaga, Rihanna and Gwen Stefani. It’s good to be inspired by singers who write music and dress incredibly – rather than models and people in the fashion industry who dress immaculately anyway because it’s their style.

The corporateness of the fashion industry tends to take away or distort the freedom of creation.

I’m regularly speaking at London Business School and Harvard Business School. They’re the next generation of leaders in the fashion industry.

The fashion industry, like others, is constantly changing.

I’ve learned to put a big value on having a life outside of fashion, and I think that’s what’s saved me, because the fashion industry can suck you in.