Isabella Blow famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

My style icon is anyone who makes a bloody effort
-- Isabella Blow

#Icons #Effort #Style
If you don't wear lipstick, I can't talk to you.
-- Isabella Blow

#Lipstick
My passion for fashion borders on insanity.
-- Isabella Blow

#Fashion #Passion #Insanity
Fashion is a vampiric thing, it's the hoover on your brain. That's why I wear the hats, to keep everyone away from me. They say, 'Oh, can I kiss you?' I say, 'No, thank you very much. That's why I've worn the hat. Goodbye.' I don't want to be kissed by all and sundry. I want to be kissed by the people I love.
-- Isabella Blow

#Goodbye #Fashion #Kissing
If you don't wear lipstick, I can't talk to you. You need to have lips - they are important for getting men.
-- Isabella Blow

#Men #Important #Needs
If you're beautiful you don't need clothes. If you're ugly like me, you're like a house with no foundations; you need something to build you up,
-- Isabella Blow

#Beautiful #Clothes #House
If you don't wear lipstick I can't talk to you.
-- Isabella Blow

#Ifs #I Can #Lipstick
I hate crap, I like craftsmanship
-- Isabella Blow

#Hate #I Hate #Crap

Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.
I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones.
If Abstract Expression reached for the sublime, Pop turned ordinary imagery into icons. Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol illuminated the transformative power of context and the process of reproduction. Claes Oldenburg's soft ice-cream cones and hamburgers changed sculpture from hard to soft, from stasis to transformation.
In the United States those bits of our history that remain are paved over, sanitized, packaged for easy consumption. At those sites not already lost to commercial development, we walk between velvet ropes, herded by guides, warned not to touch. Our icons are preserved under glass, their magic demystified in glossy brochures.
Apart from death and taxes, the one thing that's certain in this life is that I'll never be a fashion icon.
Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is to make us feel small. But if that's their purpose, they can keep their paltry icons. We need only look up if we wish to feel small.
It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.
Tossed into the Secaucus graveyard are about 25 centuries of classical culture and the standards of style, elegance and grandeur that it gave to the dreams and constructions of Western man. That turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump.
In Paris style is everything. That is traditionally understood. Every street, every structure, every shopgirl has style. The style of Parisian architecture has been proved and refined by at least three centuries of academic dictates and highly developed taste. There are few violations of this taste, and there is exemplary architectural consistency. Paris has defined the aesthetics of a sophisticated urban culture.
Style is the only thing you can't buy. It's not in a shopping bag, a label, or a price tag. It's something reflected from our soul to the outside world. An emotion.

Isabella Blow famous quotes

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