Quotes About Fashion Week

“When I was going to Paris for Paris Fashion Week, I'd often walk down the street and go into all the different shops that we didn't necessarily have in the U.K., and Maje was definitely one of the ones that stood out for me.”

— Alexa Chung

“I think it's cool that London Fashion Week is about young designers trying wacky things.”

— Alexa Chung

“London Fashion Week is so different from any of the others. Compared to the strictness in New York, London seems freer from commercial constraints. Truer to the process, to street style, to a sense of humour.”

— Alexa Chung

“I don't think fashion week will go back to what it used to be because people are realising that the industry is completely changing. It's not just in Bryant Park any more, people are figuring out who their audience is, where they want to show, they aren't really playing by the rules. It's not so much about these editors, these buyers.”

— Alexander Wang

“I love Fall Fashion Week because it means lots of layering, long sweaters and vintage coats.”

— Rachel Zoe

“For a lot of people, it's a massive deal to be on the front row at Fashion Week and look perfect. I don't go to be seen; I go to look at the collections and support my friends, like Henry, Giles and Jonathan Saunders. As much as I love clothes and shopping, it doesn't drive me.”

— Abbey Clancy

“I went to New York for Fashion Week and girls showed up waiting to see me. It's funny because there's a group of girls who I actually recognize because they always show up. It's nice and I'm like, 'Hi girls! I recognize your faces!' It's just like a feel-good experience.”

— Katie Cassidy

“We focused on getting popchips into the hands of tastemakers and influencers wherever they were, from the fashionistas at Mercedes Benz fashion week to the passengers on Virgin Airlines.”

— Keith Belling

“I like Chanel mascara because it has the darkest black. For my eyebrows, I brush them through to keep them groomed and in place. And for my lips, I wear lip balm. I use Kiehl's Lip Balm #1. It's really helpful during fashion week. If I keep up with these three things, I feel like I look very fresh, young, and natural.”

— Fei Fei Sun

“People are saying fashion week is no longer just a press event, it has become a shopping event because of us.”

— Aslaug Magnusdottir

“I'd love to go to fashion week! I'm learning more about designers, thanks to 'Pretty Little Liars' costume designer, Mandi Line.”

— Lucy Hale

“When it comes to Fashion Week, I'm over the too-cool-for-school runway experience with loud music in a raw space that's inconvenient for everyone.”

— Rodger Berman

“I got to host a radio show. I got a clothing range. I was the face of fashion week. I got to do a whole television show with kids.”

— Ruby Rose

“Honestly, I try to forget Fashion Week once it's over. I just want to go home and rest and just forget I even did it. It could drive you crazy! It's just show after show after show, and you're missing your family and they feel really far away. You don't go to sleep. You work for a month.”

— Chanel Iman

“Fashion week is very inspiring, and you can't look at things one dimensionally. And I think that everyone who works in this industry has a very three-dimensional view of what fashion is and what art is.”

— Mark Indelicato

“Fashion Week is surprisingly very short. At least the actual runway shows are.”

— Tinie Tempah

“When Fashion Week ends, I miss the shows and the shot of adrenaline that comes with them. Each day is a new show, a new fitting, and you make new friends. Every season you get to know the other girls a little better.”

— Magdalena Frackowiak

“I was able to participate in New York Fashion Week and walk down the runway. I participated in a pizza contest in Canada.”

— Takeru Kobayashi

“I'm embracing what I have. I'm a curvier bombshell with big boobs. I'm not high-fashion. I don't do runway. You won't see me at Fashion Week.”

— Charlotte McKinney

“I have a huge breakfast every morning because I never know if I'll have time for lunch, especially during Fashion Week. It keeps my mood positive all day. And my parents taught me to have tons of fruit and vegetables, which I think helps my skin.”

— Constance Jablonski

“I really love to resurrect pieces from my past collections and wear them to fashion week parties.”

— Nanette Lepore

“I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.”

— Oksana Baiul

“One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!”

— Zendaya

“I'm 19 now, and I go to The New School in New York, where I study Criminal Psychology. My first week of second semester was during Fashion Week when my first editorials in 'CR Fashion Book' and 'Sports Illustrated' came out. It was crazy!”

— Gigi Hadid

“I never feel with the fashion stuff that it's too fake. If I was a model and had a working part in Fashion Week, then I might feel like that, but I'm just a visitor. I really only walk in and watch the shows and think, 'Maybe I could wear that in a video.' I meet the designer, say hello, and then I go.”

— Iggy Azalea

“It is London fashion week, and once again I haven't been invited to any shows. This is upsetting given my well-known love of fashion, or, as I think of it, playing with the dressing-up box.”

— Arthur Smith

“I used to go to a lot of Pam Hogg shows. The thing about London Fashion Week is that, generally, we're on tour and traveling around, so it's very rare that I actually catch it. I like to go to Burberry because I know a few girls who work there. I kind of follow friends.”

— Alison Mosshart

“Paris is one of my favorite cities, but Paris during Fashion Week is everything!”

— Brad Goreski

“Fashion Week is like Christmas.”

— Brad Goreski

“You really do have the license during fashion week to wear the things that you wouldn't necessarily wear to dinner, because it really is a fashion parade.”

— Brad Goreski

“Fashion Week is horrible. I mean, it isn't horrible, really - it's amazing. But having to work that much every day is.”

— Cara Delevingne

“London Fashion Week isn't the most organised, but I don't mind that. It's such an exciting place - it's small and cool.”

— Carine Roitfeld

“I've never been in New York for the whole time of Fashion Week.”

— Jessica Chastain

“You don't see me in the clubs unless I'm throwing a party for Fashion Week.”

— Kimora Lee Simmons

“Fashion Week is so important for designers.”

— Diane Von Furstenberg

“By the end of Fashion Week my apartment is covered with makeup and clothes and shoes. Everything you can think of.”

— Karlie Kloss

“I love fashion week. It has great energy and vibe.”

— Theophilus London

“I've been making a diary of the daft things people have said during London Fashion Week, and it does wear a little bit thin, everyone comparing my name to Edie Sedgwick.”

— Edie Campbell

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— Denver Nicks

“Your skin is your largest organ, and it wants to breathe. There are so many times, like Fashion Week, when you [need to] think about all the stuff your skin and body have absorbed through makeup and products and all this stuff.”

— Erin Wasson

“Fashion Week was at Bryant Park and there were a few shows like Marc Jacobs, or when Alexander McQueen came to town, that were offsite, Helmut [Lung] was offsite, but it was very intimate. It wasn't the way it is today where you have a thousand people at the show. You may have had 200 to 250 and it was really the trade and you know fashion greats.”

— Roopal Patel

“You should always change at least three times a day during Fashion Week.”

— Selita Ebanks

“When I went to Fashion Week, I was very disappointed by how few women of color were in those shows. I do speak to the younger girls, and I hear them when they say they're not getting the big contracts or into the big shows.”

— Beverly Johnson

“When it comes to Fashion Week, I think it's time to hit a refresh.”

— Nanette Lepore

“When I wrote my blog and went to fashion week, I got a lot of shade from older editors about paying my dues and educating myself. I get where they were coming from, but it's also weird now to see their institutions scramble to use the internet in a way that's not savvy, but genuinely effective and exciting to people. I've been doing that for years.”

— Tavi Gevinson

“New York Fashion Week comes only twice a year, make it count”

— Tommy Hilfiger

“I have to admit, at first, it was really overwhelming and I would get stressed about putting things together. Now, it's like trying to figure out a puzzle piece, and I love that ... There are so many things that I don't even know and would love to discover more about. I was so upset I had to leave [Europe] before Paris Fashion Week, but then I was like ... "Oh wait, my album is coming out."”

— Selena Gomez

“I hadn't really been in that world for too long. It was fun for me, but definitely wasn't my world. When I went to my first Paris Fashion Week, I had been invited to the Louis Vuitton show by Nicolas. We met there. It was all organic and fun for me.”

— Selena Gomez

“I kind of had an idea that New York would be like Fashion Week, where everyone always looks incredibly chic and cool, and I wouldn't fit in.”

— Carey Mulligan

“Someone once I asked my son Cruz, 'When's your birthday?' and he told them, 'It's just after Fashion Week!'”

— Victoria Beckham