Suzy Menkes famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The wayâ€¨ that people dress makes them part of an army, dressed in their own uniform,â€¨ determined to do something
-- Suzy Menkes

#Army #People #Dresses
The clothes that fire up my emotions are colorful and different pieces. My eye still picks out gilded-cloque glamour from among Burberrys streamlined trench coats or a hand-printed coat from Dries Van Noten.
-- Suzy Menkes

#Eye #Hands #Clothes
Just as in life you always marry the same man, so I think you always buy the same clothes over time.
-- Suzy Menkes

#Men #Thinking #Clothes
I am thrilled to become International Vogue Editor at CondÃ© Nast International, which has a real commitment to journalistic excellence, and to have the opportunity to write for a wider global audience through the Vogue websites,
-- Suzy Menkes

#Real #Commitment #Writing
My style has always been to choose the charming and quirky.
-- Suzy Menkes

#Style #Quirky #Charming
The way  that people dress makes them part of an army, dressed in their own uniform,  determined to do something
-- Suzy Menkes

#Army #People #Dresses
The most powerful element is that a designer has to reflect the times. So often you can only sense a change, and not really understand until much later its significance.
-- Suzy Menkes

#Powerful #Designer #Most Powerful
I am not bothered about fashion's speed-up. I find it quite exciting!
-- Suzy Menkes

#Exciting #Bothered #Not Bothered
The Romanovs are overtaken by the Indian Maharajahs as American heiresses pick over the carcasses of fallen Empire.
-- Suzy Menkes

#Empires #Heiress #Fallen

The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.
When I was a kid you always heard about the Israeli army and you always heard about this tiny little country and how everyone around them wants them gone, and every time somebody comes after them they take care of business. And so as a Jewish kid you were proud of that.
So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.
Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia.
Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.
Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
His dress told her nothing, but his face told her things which she was glad to know.
My mum used to always dress me and my sister in matching Laura Ashley dresses. And I'd be like, 'Mum, I just wanna wear my Doc Martens!
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.

Suzy Menkes famous quotes

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