“Make it simple, but significant.”
– Don Draper, Mad Men
“In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous.” – Elsa Schiaparelli
“Fashion is like eating, you shouldn’t stick to the same menu.”
– Kenzo Takada
“Fashion changes, but style endures.”
– Coco Chanel
“I was like, ‘What’s Margiela?’ back then.”
– Kim Kardashian (on a pair of Maison Margiela boots Kanye bought her in 2008)
“A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.”
– Vera Wang
“You gotta have style. It helps you get down the stairs. It helps you get up in the morning. It’s a way of life. Without it, you’re nobody.”
– Diana Vreeland
“Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.”
– Sir Francis Bacon
“I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.”
– Diana Vreeland
“She can beat me, but she cannot beat my outfit.”
– Rihanna
“You either know fashion or you don’t.”
– Anna Wintour
“You can have anything you want, if you dress for it.”
– Edith Head
“I am anti-pants.”
– Lena Dunham
“Fashion wasn’t what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.”
– Andy Warhol
“I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can’t possess radiance, you can only admire it.”
– Elizabeth Taylor
“If I can have any impact, I want women to feel good about themselves and have fun with fashion.”
– Michelle Obama
“I was at school when Britney Spears’s ‘Baby One More Time’ came out. I changed my uniform to look like hers. I just looked slutty after that, so thank you, Britney.”
– Alexa Chung
“I’ve always thought of accessories as the exclamation point of a woman’s outfit.”
– Michael Kors
“I don’t believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be the same person every day.”
– Stephanie Perkins
“Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.”
– Jean Cocteau
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
– Coco Chanel
“Shoes transform your body language and attitude. They lift you physically and emotionally.”
– Christian Louboutin
“It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.”
– Yves Saint Laurent
“When you don’t feel to dress means that you are depressed. You need a fashion shower.”
– Anna Dello Russo
“Fashion is part of the daily air, and it changes all the time, with all the events. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes. You can see and feel everything in clothes.”
– Diana Vreeland
“I don’t do fashion. I am fashion.”
– Coco Chanel
“Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing, and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.’’
– Vivienne Westwood
“I like my money right where I can see it: hanging in my closet.”
– Carrie Bradshaw, Sex And The City
“Florals for spring? Groundbreaking.”
– Miranda Priestly, The Devil Wears Prada
“I have four bedrooms in my house. One is for guests, the other three are for closets.”
– André Leon Talley
“I like Cinderella; she has a good work ethic, and she likes shoes.”
– Amy Adams
“A great dress can make you remember what is beautiful about life.”
– Rachel Roy
“Buy less, choose well.”
– Vivienne Westwood
“I think there is beauty in everything. What ‘normal’ people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.”
– Alexander McQueen
“One is never over-dressed or under-dressed with a Little Black Dress.”
– Karl Lagerfeld
“I feel that flip-flops are the downfall of many relationships. It’s like, first it’s the flip-flops, and then it’s the sweatpants… it’s the gateway drug to no sex.”
– Lady Gaga
“Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?”
– Yves Saint Laurent
“Fashion is all about happiness. It’s fun. It’s important. But it’s not medicine.”
– Donatella Versace
“You can have anything you want in life, if you dress for it.”
– Edith Head
“My mother was right: When you’ve got nothing left, all you can do is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust.”
– Jane Birkin
“Trendy is the last stage before tacky.”
– Karl Lagerfeld
“Fashion is the armor to survive the reality of everyday life.”
– Bill Cunningham
“In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.”
– Coco Chanel
“Real style is never right or wrong. It’s a matter of being yourself on purpose.”
– G. Bruce Boyer
“There was a photo of me with weird sunglasses on and a green sweatshirt, some striped thing, with tights and cowboy boots… I just saw that photo and thought, God, I look crazy.”
– Mary Kate Olsen
“The dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress.”
– Hubert de Givenchy
“Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring.”
– Diana Vreeland
“The customer is the final filter. What survives the whole process is what people wear. I’m not interested in making clothes that end up in some dusty museum.”
– Marc Jacobs
“I’m a very down-to-earth person, but it is my job to make that earth more pleasant.”
– Karl Lagerfeld
“I really would not call myself a fashion icon. I would call myself somebody who gets dressed by professionals… I would call me more of a monkey.”
– Jennifer Lawrence
“People will stare. Make it worth their while.”
– Harry Winston
“When I first moved to New York, and I was totally broke, sometimes I would buy Vogue instead of dinner. I felt it fed me more.”
– Carrie Bradshaw, Sex And The City
“The joy of dressing is an art.”
– John Galliano
“Women who wear black lead colorful lives.”
– Neiman Marcus
“Style; all who have it have one thing: originality.”
– Diana Vreeland
“When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today.’’
– Caitlin Moran
“I’m just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.”
– Lady Gaga
“Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live.”
– Gianni Versace
“Trendy is the last stage before tacky.”
– Karl Lagerfeld
“Always dress like you’re going to see your worst enemy.”
– Kimora Lee
“Fashion is what you’re offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose.”
– Lauren Hutton
“A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste—it’s hearty, it’s healthy, it’s physical. I think we could use more of it. No taste is what I’m against.”
– Diana Vreeland
“Style is very important. It has nothing to do with fashion. Fashion is over quickly. Style lasts forever.”
– Ralph Lauren
“You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes. Too many women think that they are unimportant, but the real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet.”
– Christian Dior
“Fashion has to reflect who you are, what you feel at the moment and where you’re going.”
– Pharrell Williams
“Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.”
– Karl Lagerfeld
“Conformity is the only real fashion crime. To not dress like yourself and to sublimate your spirit to some kind of group identity is succumbing to fashion fascism.”
– Simon Doonan
“Whoever said that money can’t buy happiness, simply didn’t know where to go shopping.”
– Bo Derek
“I don’t want a politician who’s thinking about fashion for even one millisecond. It’s the same as medical professionals. The idea of a person in a Comme des Garcons humpback dress giving me a colonoscopy is just not groovy.”
– Simon Doonan
”What you wear is such an expression of who you are. That’s like someone picking out who I’m going to date!”
– Diane Kruger (on not working with a stylist)
“Playing dress-up begins at age five and never really ends.”
– Kate Spade
“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
– Coco Chanel
“I can’t concentrate in flats.”
– Victoria Beckham
“I design for the woman who loves being a woman.”
– Diane von Furstenberg
“We have this saying, Christy and I. We don’t wake up for less than $10,000 a day.”
– Linda Evangelista
“Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.”
– Marilyn Monroe
“I think that because I’m overweight, [my] fantasy was lightness. So I project my fantasy to the clothes, and now all I do is light, light clothes because it’s the one thing I don’t have. That is why I’m too afraid to lose weight because then I might make heavy clothes.”
– Alber Elbaz
“Can you please spell Gabbana?”
– Andrea Sachs, The Devil Wears Prada
“When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: Don’t get carried away—it’s only dresses.”
– Karl Lagerfeld
“When you go to a nice restaurant, you want to be relaxed and have a drink and everything, you want to look at people who look well. You don’t want to look at some slob with an open shirt and a hairy chest—at least I don’t.”
– Iris Apfel
“We don’t need fashion to survive, we just desire it so much.”
– Marc Jacobs
“Fashion, somehow for me, is purely and happily irrational.”
– Hedi Slimane
“Clothes have nothing until someone lives in them.”
– Marc Jacobs
“Style is primarily a matter of instinct.”
– Bill Blass
“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.”
– Orson Welles
“Style is very personal. It has nothing to do with fashion. Fashion is over quickly. Style is forever.”
– Ralph Lauren
“When you don’t dress like everybody else, you don’t have to think like everybody else.”
– Iris Apfel
“I’ll stop wearing black when they make a darker color.”
– Wednesday Addams
“I know what women look good in. I don’t think the rules ever change.”
– Michael Kors
“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street; fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.’’
– Coco Chanel
“Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves, of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys, they’d just walk around naked at all times.”
– Betsey Johnson
“Over the years, I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.”
– Yves Saint Laurent
“In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.”
– Christian Dior
“Clothes are like a good meal, a good movie, great pieces of music.”
– Michael Kors
“We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.”
– Yves Saint Laurent
“Clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them.”
– Marc Jacobs
“Fashion is not necessarily about labels. It’s not about brands. It’s about something else that comes from within you.”
– Ralph Lauren
“I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.”
– Yves Saint Laurent
“Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.”
– Rachel Zoe
