“ I only like decoration if it plays second to the architecture of a dress. Madeleine Vionnet Fashion Designer
“ The dress must not hang on the body but follow its lines. When a woman smiles the dress must smile with her. Madeleine Vionnet Fashion Designer
“ Taste is the feeling that permits one to tell the difference between what is beautiful and what is merely spectacular. Madeleine Vionnet Fashion Designer
“ The couturier should be a geometrician, for the human body makes geometrical figures to which the materials should correspond. Madeleine Vionnet Fashion Designer
“ You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other kids are in Armani cloth sacks - especially in a time like ours, when materialism is not only rampant and ascendant but is fast becoming the only game in town. George Saunders Writer
“ There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in. Alanis Morissette Singer-Songwriter
“ I tend to splurge on fancy dresses because I always think I'll get a lot of wear out of them, but it's false logic. You should really spend more money on the things you wear every day, like jeans. Alexa Chung Presenter
“ The obvious precedent for Beijing 2008 was the Berlin Olympics, in 1936. Both were showcases for a muscle-flexing nation, although Hitler made an elementary error when he chose not to dress his young National Socialists in lime-green catsuits laced with twinkling fairy lights. Anthony Lane Journalist