Vogue Quotes

“Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.”
― Anna Wintour

“It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten.”
― Anna Wintour

“I hope that I never become a vogue. A vogue is damned and doomed forever.”
― Charles Bukowski, Bukowski In The Bathtub: Recollections Of Charles Bukowski With John Thomas

“This prolific and inventive photographer (Edward Steichen) must be given credit for virtually inventing modern fashion photography, and as the tohousands of high-quality original prints in the Conde Nast archives prove, only Irving Penn and Richard Avedon have since emerged as serious historical rivals.”
― William A. Ewing

“Once in a great while, she was distressed by the way she looked. As she was rounding the bend to forty she would write to Avis DeVoto that whenever she read Vogue she "felt like a frump....but I suppose that is the purpose of all of it, to shame people out of their frumpery so they will go out and buy 48 pairs of red shoes, have a facial, pat themselves with deodorizers, buy a freezer, and put up the new crispy window curtains with a draped valence."
Julia was able to deconstruct the disingenuous motives that drive women's magazines with the ease she normally reserved for deboning a duck, seeing quite clearly that while ostensibly offering inspiration and useful advice, the stories and articles quietly pummel the reader's sense of self, the better to drive her into the arms of the advertisers.”
― Karen Karbo, Julia Child Rules: Lessons On Savoring Life

“Anna Wintour hadn't been to any of McQueen's shows, and McQueen didn't like it. McQueen said American Vogue could borrow the dress only if they flew it to New York and back, in its own seat, with an escort. It was a fuck-you and they took it, and the dress was shot by Richard Avedon. "Fashion people haven't got any brains," McQueen said.”
― Maureen Callahan

“Mental illness is in fashion.”
― Steven Magee

“Helmut Vetter war der erste Mann, der auf dem Cover der englischen 'Vogue' abgebildet war.”
― NEON, Unnützes Wissen: 1374 skurrile Fakten, die man nie mehr vergisst

“Some people want to be in vogue even at the cost of being a rogue.”
― Tapan Ghosh

“House dresses are still available; I did my research. The only problem procuring them is that you’ll need to order from the kind of website where the pitch for their stylishness can be summed up by the following: “Zip-Front Housecoats for Elderly People - Faded Flowers Pattern.”

It’s as if the editor of Vogue penned that evocative line herself.”
― Regina Barreca

“The vogue of my ancestry is my family, above all religion and caste”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“Langzaam zoom ik in en zie tegelijkertijd de drooggetrainde, wiegende rug van Madonna (‘Vogue’) en ik weet dat in de kooi van haar ribben, ingekapseld in taaie draden, haar hart klopt, als een glanzend oranje embryo. Om de een of andere reden stelt mij dat gerust en daarom laat ik de camera het plekje tussen haar schouderblad en ruggengraat viseren waarna ik in de badkamer verdwijn.”
― Peter Verhelst, Vloeibaar harnas

“When an editor once tried to kill herself by diving in front of a subway train, Edna Chase was pained by her vulgarity. If a Vogue editor was forced to resort to suicide, she should have enough sense to swallow sleeping powders instead of leaving messes for the city sanitation department.”
― Marion Meade, Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?

“Si quieres trabajar para Vogue, producir películas o abrir un restaurante, es mejor que obtengas de ello una inmensa recompensa psicológica, pues tu compensación económica, y el retorno por tus esfuerzos, probablemente vaya a dar bastante pena.”
― Scott Galloway, The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google

“No book is a vanity book. I am an intellectual”
― Tavi Gevinson

“THE FALL MAY NOT KILL YOU
BUT THE BRUISE TO YOUR EGO
MAY KILL YOUR SPIRIT.
BE CAREFUL OF....
WHO AND WHAT YOU FALL FOR !”
― Qwana M. "BabyGirl" Reynolds-Frasier

“It is easy to get swept up in cultural trends that tickle the imagination because those who propagate such trends can’t distinguish reality from imagination. However, they do know where we’re ticklish.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough