"These schools today are pretty useless. They are very theoretical. What do you need theory for? Nothing. What you need is experience, to have lived and seen and done other things in life. I taught for a while and I used to tell my students: ‘Seeing one picture by Chagall is much more important than reading all the issues of Vogue ever published.’"

Renata Molho, on why no one should go to fashion school

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"With expensive fashion, the inside should be as perfect as the outside."

— Karl Lagerfeld 

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"There’s nothing more clean and classic than a white shirt. It has a twisted elegance to it that is very seductive."

— Helmut Lang 

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"I want to put a soul in a garment. I don’t want my clothes to be perfect, because human beings are not perfect."

— Ann Demeulemeester

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"It’s important to excite the imagination of a woman."

— Oscar de la Renta

"Whatever I design, it has to please my eye. If I go to work on an office block, I’ll draw the office that I want to walk into. If it’s a piece of crystal, it must feel the way I want it to feel in my hand. If it’s women’s wear, it must be something I’d like to see my wife dressed in."

— John Rocha

"Fashion is something you attach to yourself, put on, and through that interaction the meaning of it is born. Without the wearing of it, it has no meaning, unlike a piece of art. It is fashion because people want to buy it now, because they want to wear it now, today. Fashion is only the right now."

— Rei Kawakubo

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"I think it’s amusing that someone who is famous for taking her clothes off becomes famous because of her clothes! I do love dressing up, though."

— Dita von Teese

"Quality is remembered long after price is forgotten."

— Aldo Gucci

"I don’t believe in people who think that clothes are not important."

— Miuccia Prada