The best Quotes by Roy Halston Frowick

Fashion starts with fashionable people.

You are only as good as the people you dress.

There are no problems, only opportunities.

You need to create the illusion of success for people to pay attention.

Halston: "Some models just wear clothes. Elsa, she makes them her own."
Ed: "I thought Liza was your muse?"
Halston: "Well, you can't have too many muses."

Halston: "I'm gonna do what Ralph Lifshitz did, only bigger."
Ed: "Why don't I know this name?"
Halston: "Because he changed his last name to f*cking 'Lauren'."

Henry: "Hat sales are down 30% from last quarter, and the previous quarter down 40%."
Halston: "We're trending up, is what you're saying."

Ed Austin: "No, thanks. I don't accept drinks from strangers."
Halston: "Then tell me your name. We won't be strangers."

Can't put a budget on inspiration.

If I can get my designs on the one right person, I can get them on every woman in America.

Henry: "People just don't wear hats anymore. What are you going to do about it?"
Halston: "Well I'm hard at work making the sun brighter, but until I get my rainmaking machine working, I don't know what I'll do. Except maybe drink after this meeting."

I think once you call yourself a genius, you stop growing.

Or someone might say, "Lisa, what a nice hat you have on." And I'll say, "Thank you very much, but my name is Liza. And that's my hair."

Joe: "That collection you did for Bergdorf's? Looked like cement. Nobody wanted 'em."
Halston: "Nobody understood them."
Joe: "You don't want to understand a dress. You want to love it."

People gather by the thousands to witness the inauguration of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. As the motorcade makes its way down Pennsylvania Avenue, they hope to catch a glimpse of First Lady Jackie Kennedy in a dress by designer Oleg Cassini and a simple, yet elegant pillbox by hatmaker Mr. Halston.

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.

Anyone who doesn't have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.

Congratulations, San Francisco, you've ruined pizza. First the Hawaiians, and now you.

I hope I go to Heaven, and when I do, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does when he gets there. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.'

California has officially announced that jaywalking is now no longer a crime. So congratulations to the Californians who like walking places. This is great news for the six of you.

New Mexico. It's another state. I mean, it's like California, just less traffic.

We all have our little faults. Mine's in California.

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don't remember the last time I couldn't walk around in shorts all day.

You have never seen such lofty clouds, such towering anvils, as in Iowa in July.

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Iowa - and that's pretty much the same thing.

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

I'm like every other woman: a closet full of clothes, but nothing to wear: So I wear jeans.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

What the advertiser needs to know is not what is right about the product but what is wrong about the buyer.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat.

The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.