Katharine Hamnett famous quotes

The price of clothes may be low, but they are paid for with human lives,
-- Katharine Hamnett

#Clothes #May #Lows

The fashion industry tends to attract people with serious personality defects. They just want to be rich and famous. But at some point you have to decide: Are you going to mindlessly go the easy way or are you going to go the ethical way?
-- Katharine Hamnett

#Fashion #People #Personality

The origins of clothing are not practical. They are mystical and erotic. The primitive man in the wolf-pelt was not keeping dry; he was saying: Look what I killed. Aren't I the best?
-- Katharine Hamnett

#Men #Looks #Dry

Every experience permanently alters the way you perceive beauty
-- Katharine Hamnett

#Way #Perceive

You might think people would buy clothes out of pity, but they won’t. People buy clothes because they want to be excited about themselves. ...it has to be great clothing that just happens to be goody-goody, too.
-- Katharine Hamnett

#Thinking #Clothes #People

Emphasize the best, and minimize the rest
-- Katharine Hamnett

#Excellence

I think the challenge is, in fashion everybody wants to get rich and famous and it's easy to get rich and famous by being a bad person. But the challenge is to achieve your goals-whatever they are-while staying a decent human being. That's where it came from.
-- Katharine Hamnett

#Fashion #Thinking #Goal

What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?

I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.

I wanted to see people from different age groups, body shapes and personalities wearing Lanvin That is what Lanvin is all about and represents - we dont only do clothes for 20-year-old girls. I love to see mature women wearing Lanvin as well. I love wrinkles, I love grey hair.

If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster

I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.

Staying with him. Letting him touch you, hold you, GOD. It's eating me alive. You may be keeping Sawyer from hating me but you're only making me hate him

You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.

I absolutely love low-key restaurants.

They say for every high high there must be a low low low low low

The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.