Manolo Blahnik

My shoes are special shoes for discerning feet. Manolo Blahnik You put high heels on and you change. Manolo Blahnik About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs. Manolo Blahnik  

Bill Blass

Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don’t have a change, you’re bored. It’s the same with fashion, you know. And that, I suppose, is what style is about. Bill Blass Red is the ultimate cure for sadness. Bill Blass Style is primarily a matter of instinct. Bill Blass When in doubt wear [...]

Geoffrey Beene

Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it’s important. Geoffrey Beene I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion. Geoffrey Beene The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore. Geoffrey Beene Designis a [...]

Billy Baldwin

Rich Palm Beach clients all wanted the same kind of different thing. Billy Baldwin

Laura Ashley

We don’t want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want. Laura Ashley

Giorgio Armani

Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. Giorgio Armani The difference between style and fashion is quality. Giorgio Armani Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani – even if it’s a fake. I like the fact that I’m so popular around the [...]

Pierre Cardin

I have a name, I have to take advantage of it. Pierre Cardin They said pret-a-porter will kill your name, and it saved me. Pierre Cardin We undress men and women, we don’t dress them any more. Pierre Cardin I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be [...]

Giovanni Agnelli

The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union. Giovanni Agnelli Well, in 1947… in Europe and in Italy especially, we thought of America as all-powerful. Giovanni Agnelli In the immediate postwar years, the whole of Europe was in a [...]