Katharine Hamnett Professions : Fashion designer Born : August 16, 1947 Browse All Authors Top 7 quotes by Katharine Hamnett 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 personality people Every experience permanently alters the way you perceive beauty Katharine Hamnett perceive way Emphasize the best, and minimize the rest Katharine Hamnett excellence You might think people would buy clothes out of pity, Katharine Hamnett clothes people thinking 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 goal thinking 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 primitive-man fashion men Similar Authors Brunello Cucinelli fashion-designer Bruce Oldfield fashion-designer Alice Temperley fashion-designer Anya Hindmarch fashion-designer Austin Scarlett fashion-designer Anne Klein fashion-designer All Authors