Great Fashion Quotes:

It's funny, my girlfriends think that because I am married to a fashion designer, I get all these great tips and hints about great fashion, but it's not like that at all. He never tells me what to wear.

- Lori Loughlin

topic: Fashion, Girlfriend, Thinking, My Girlfriend, Fashion Designer

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

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

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

- Kate Moss

source: "Kate Moss's motto gives comfort to 'pro-anorexic' community" by Alexandra Topping, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2009.

topic: Fashion, Taste, Skinny, Fashion Industry, Good Taste

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

- Sophia Loren

source: "Good Morning, America" on ABC TV, en.wikiquote.org. August 10, 1979.

topic: Love, Fashion, Views, Inspiring Fashion, Clothes You Wear

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

- Yves Saint Laurent

source: Yves Saint Laurent (1983). “Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume”, p.21, Metropolitan Museum of Art

topic: Inspirational, Fashion, Design, Snobbery, Style Icons

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 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

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

Clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them.

- Marc Jacobs

topic: Fashion, Mean, Clothes, Inspiring Fashion, Style Icons

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

- Diana Vreeland

topic: Fashion, Real, Life Changing, Inspiring Fashion, Columnists

Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.

- Manolo Blahnik

source: "Head Over Heels for Manolo Blahnik" by Lisa Armstrong, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 23, 2010.

topic: Fashion, Divorce, Men, Fashionista, Footwear

A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.

- Dorothy Parker

topic: Nice, Inspiration, Littles, Fashion Icon, Clothes And Fashion

The dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress.

- Hubert de Givenchy

topic: Fashion, Dresses, Body, Fashion Designer, Fashionista

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 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

People will stare. Make it worth their while.

- Harry Winston

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

How can you live the high life if you do not wear the high heels?

- Sonia Rykiel

topic: Fashion, High Heels, Heels, Stiletto Heels, Stilettos

Elegance is not standing out, but being remembered.

- Giorgio Armani

topic: Fashion, Elegance, Standing Out, Style Icons, Fashionista

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.

- Sophia Loren

source: "The Subtlety of Emotions". Book by Aaron Ben-Ze'ev, 2001.

topic: Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful, Attractiveness, Most Beautiful Woman In The World

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

- Stendhal

source: Stendhal (1967). “On Love”

topic: Fashion, Simple, Simplicity, Great Minds, Simple Living

A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to prove you're a lady.

- Edith Head

source: EDITH HEAD (1959). “The Dress Doctor”

topic: Fashion, Eyebrows, Icons, Wearing A Dress, Clothes And Fashion

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

- Epictetus

topic: Inspirational, Beauty, Fashion, Clothes And Shoes, Clothing Style

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

- Jean Cocteau

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

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

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

topic: Fashion, Nice, Thinking, Fashion Icon, Clothes And Fashion

Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory.

- Coco Chanel

topic: Fashion, Mirrors, House, Fashion Accessory, Fashion And Style

Girls don't dress for boys....

- Betsey Johnson

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

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

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

A great dress can make you remember what is beautiful about life.

- Rachel Roy

topic: Beautiful, Fashion, Dresses, Great Fashion

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

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

- Coco Chanel

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

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

- Karl Lagerfeld

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

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

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

- Coco Chanel

topic: Beauty, Girl, Fashion, My Girl, That Girl

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

Shoes transform your body language and attitude. They lift you physically and emotionally.

- Christian Louboutin

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

topic: Fashion, Attitude, Shoes, Fashion Industry, Fashionista

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

- Rachel Zoe

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

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

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

- Coco Chanel

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

Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.

- Edna Woolman Chase

source: Edna Woolman Chase, Ilka Chase (1954). “Always in Vogue”

topic: Fashion, Style, Clothing Style, Fashion And Style, Fashion Style

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

- Coco Chanel

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

Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality.

- Alexander McQueen

topic: Fashion, Looks, Pieces, Fashionista, Great Fashion

If you look at any great fashion photograph out of context, it will tell you just as much about what's going on in the world as a headline in The New York Times.

- Anna Wintour

source: "What lies beneath". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2006.

topic: Fashion, New York, Looks, Great Fashion, Of Context

Great fashion is all about surprise. It should always be about doing something that isn't by the book.

- Reed Krakoff

topic: Fashion, Book, Surprise, Great Fashion