Fashion Inspirational Quotes:

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

- Coco Chanel

topic: Fashion, Greatness, Perfection, Elegant Woman, Fashion And Style

Fashion is not necessarily about labels. It's not about brands. It's about something else that comes from within you.

- Ralph Lauren

source: Ralph Lauren's runway show, Fall 2008.

topic: Fashion, Labels, Brands, Inspiring Fashion, Style Icons

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

- Coco Chanel

topic: Strength, Inspiring, Fashion, Self Determination, Empowering Women

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

- Gore Vidal

source: FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Feb 28, 2011

topic: Inspirational, Fashion, Hair, Individual Style, Inspiring Fashion

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

source: "Chanel : A Woman of Her Own" by Axel Madsen, (p. 124), 1991.

topic: Fashion, Life Changing, Sky, Inspiring Fashion, Old Fashion

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

- Jean Cocteau

topic: Fashion, Simple, Style, Style Icons, Fashion And Style

That is the key of this collection, being yourself. 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 to live.

- Gianni Versace

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Fashion, Being Yourself, Keys, Just Being You, Inspiring Fashion

Style is very personal. It has nothing to do with fashion. Fashion is over quickly. Style is forever.

- Ralph Lauren

topic: Fashion, Forever, Style, Inspiring Fashion, Style Icons

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

- Coco Chanel

topic: Inspirational, Confidence, Fashion, Improve Self Esteem, Inspiring Business

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

- Orson Welles

topic: Successful, Unique, Design, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design

You can have anything you want

- Jenifer Lewis

topic: Want, Eldest, Inspirational Self Confidence, Inspirational Success Failure, Singleness

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

topic: Beautiful, Fashion, Giving, Inspiring Fashion, Fashion Design

The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world.

- Alicia Keys

topic: Fashion, Inspirational Life, Rocks, Clothes And Shoes, Personal Style

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

topic: Girl, Fashion, Boys, Inspiring Fashion, Being A Girl

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

topic: Fashion, Real, Thinking, Style Icons, Old Shoes

Style is when they're running you out of town and you make it look like you're leading the parade.

- William Battie

topic: Running, Fashion, Style, Fashion Inspirational

The difference between style and fashion is quality.

- Giorgio Armani

topic: Fashion, Differences, Style, Style Icons, Clothing Style

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

- Bo Derek

topic: Funny, Money, Uprising, Inspiring Fashion, Prize Money

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

- Ralph Lauren

source: Quoted in N.Y. Times, 19 Apr. 1986

topic: Dream, Fashion, Clothes, Designer Clothes, Fashionista

One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.

- Karl Lagerfeld

topic: Fashion, Black, Style, Inspiring Fashion, Clothes You Wear

Clothes are like a good meal, a good movie, great pieces of music.

- Michael Kors

source: Twitter post from Jan 8, 2013

topic: Fashion, Clothes, Good Movie, Fashion Industry, Inspiring Fashion

The goal I seek is to have people refine their style through my clothing without having them become victims of fashion.

- Giorgio Armani

topic: Fashion, People, Goal, Fashion Inspirational, Clothes And Fashion

Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.

- Charles Bukowski

topic: Fashion, Art, Style, Fashion Inspirational

I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.

- Stephanie Perkins

source: Stephanie Perkins (2014). “Lola and the Boy Next Door”, p.9, Usborne Publishing Ltd

topic: Fashion, Life Is Too Short, Believe, Inspiring Fashion, Fashion Inspirational

Girls don't dress for boys....

- Betsey Johnson

topic: Girl, Boys, Dresses, Inspiring Fashion, Style Icons

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

- Coco Chanel

topic: Inspirational, Fashion, Style, Couture, Fashion Accessory

It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.

- Yves Saint Laurent

topic: Fashion, Pain, Pathetic, Fashion Inspirational, Fashion Style

A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.

- Coco Chanel

topic: Fashion Business, Fashionista, Fashion And Style, Fashion Icon, Fashion Inspiration

People will stare. Make it worth their while.

- Harry Winston

topic: Beauty, People, Staring, Inspiring Fashion, Style Icons

Anyone can get dressed up and glamorous, but it is how people dress in their days off that are the most intriguing.

- Alexander Wang

source: "25 of the Best Fashion Quotes of All Time" by Lauren Hutton, Krystin Arneson, Megan Gustashaw, Glamour, 2011.

topic: Fashion, People, Dresses, Dressed Up, Inspiring Fashion

Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.

- Rachel Zoe

topic: Fashion, Style, Way, Dressed Up, Inspirational Graphic Design

Walk like you have three men walking behind you.

- Oscar de la Renta

source: "Oscar de la Renta's Legacy" by Vanessa Friedman, www.nytimes.com. October 22, 2014.

topic: Fashion, Men, Three, Walking Shoes, Style Icons

In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous.

- Elsa Schiaparelli

topic: Fashion, Difficult Times, Difficult, Style Icons, Fashionista

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

- Coco Chanel

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Business Life, Failure In Life

Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are

- Gianni Versace

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Fashion, Trends, Style Icons, Elegant, Fashionista

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

- Coco Chanel

source: "Can you be too … well-dressed?" by Daisy Buchanan, www.theguardian.com. December 29, 2013.

topic: Fashion, Women, Dresses, Inspiring Fashion, Elegant Woman

Fashion is what you're offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose.

- Lauren Hutton

source: "Lauren Hutton Styles Herself for J. Crew" by Joyann King, www.harpersbazaar.com. December 3, 2010.

topic: Fashion, Years, Style, Inspiring Fashion, Style Icons

I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

- Yves Saint Laurent

topic: Fashion, Sex, Blue, Blue Jeans, Fashionista

Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.

- Yves Saint Laurent

topic: Fashion, Years, Clothes, Fashion Industry, Inspiring Fashion

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

topic: Fashion, Life Changing, Thinking, Inspiring Fashion, Fashion And Beauty

The hardest thing in fashion is not to be known for a logo, but to be known for a silhouette.

- Giambattista Valli

topic: Fashion, Silhouettes, Logos, Fashionista, Fashion Icon

When I design and wonder what the point is, I think of someone having a bad time in their life. Maybe they are sad and they wake up and put on something I have made and it makes them feel just a bit better. So, in that sense, fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But only a little.

- Miuccia Prada

topic: Fashion, Thinking, Design, Little Help, Fashion Inspirational

And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.

- Lady Gaga

topic: Fashion, Art, Creativity, Inspiring Fashion, Fashionista

What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language.

- Miuccia Prada

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Fashion, World, Today, Fashion Industry, Fashionista