"Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical."
- Sophia Loren
“For me, the fabric is nearly secondary. I believe first in shape, architecture, the geometry of a dress.”
- Pierre Cardin
“What a subject: her nose is too big, her mouth is too big, she has the composites of all the wrong things, but put them all together and pow! All the natural mistakes of beauty fall together to create a magnificent accident.”
— Rex Reed on Sophia Loren
"For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.”
-Audrey Hepburn
"I have gone through a long apprenticeship. I have gone through enough of being a nobody. I have decided that when I am a star, I will be every inch and every moment the star! Everybody from the studio gateman to the highest executive will know it."
-Gloria Swanson
{‘Magdalene and the Flame’}
“Sexy is too vast to be defined, but more than anything, it’s an attitude much like elegance.”
–Christian Louboutin
“There are so many beautiful people. There are people who were born beautiful. And people who paid a lot of money to be beautiful. And people who are beautiful because they are different and confident.”
-Humans of New York
“Buying something on sale is a very special feeling. In fact, the less I pay for something, the more it is worth to me. I have a dress that I paid so little for that I am afraid to wear it. I could spill something on it, and then how would I replace it for that amount of money?”
-Rita Rudner
“Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without.”
-Rue McClanahan
“Don't feel bad about caring about fashion. It is not a bad thing to do. The presumption that those women who concern themselves with fashion, with clothes, with style must be dim, superficial, vacuous or some combination of all three by definition is a straightforward expression of misogyny.”
- Former Guardian columnist, Polly Vernon. Read her last column.
