Top 101 Fashion Quotes

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Fashion is an important source of inspiration. With that in mind, check out the top 101 fashion quotes.

#101 – 90. Fashion Quotes

101. It’s a new era in fashion – there are no rules. It’s all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together. – Alexander McQueen

100. There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady’s head-dress. – Joseph Addison

99. Can you please spell Gabbana? – Andrea Sachs

98. Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds. – Coco Chanel

97. You either know fashion or you don’t. – Anna Wintour

96. Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsqequently turns its back on bad and good alike. – Eric Bently

95. Style’ is an expression of individualism mixed with charisma. Fashion is something that comes after style. – John Fairchild

94. I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world. – Bette Midler

93. When in doubt, wear red. – Bill Blass

92. Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman. – Coco Chanel

91. In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous. – Elsa Schiaparelli

90. Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves, and of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys, they’d just walk around naked at all times. – Betsey Johnson

#89 – 80. Fashion Quotes

89. Being well dressed hasn’t much to do with having good clothes. It’s a question of good balance and good common sense. – Oscar de la Renta

88. Fashion is a tool? to compete in life outside the home. People like you better, without knowing why, because people always react well to a person they like the looks of. – Mary Quant

87. 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

86. Fashion is what you’re offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose. – Lauren Hutton

85. The New is not a fashion, it is a value. – Roland Barthes

84. She can beat me, but she cannot beat my outfit. – Rihanna

83. Elegance is not standing out, but being remembered. – Giorgio Armani

82. Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are. – Quentin Crisp

81. Am I overdressed? Yes. Oh Good. – Reese Witherspoon

80. 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

#79 – 70. Fashion Quotes

79. She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners. – Louisa May Alcott

78. Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress. – Karl Lagerfeld

77. 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. I’m not talking about lots of clothes. – Diana Vreeland

76. 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

75. Playing dress-up begins at age five and never truly ends. – Kate Spade

74. 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

73. How to dress? When the money is going from you wear anything you like. When the money is coming to you, dress your best. – Proverb

72. 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

71. I’ve never been a millionaire but I just know I’d be darling at it. – Dorothy Parker

70. Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who’s wearing it. – Yves Saint Laurent

#69 – 60. Fashion Quotes

69. I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked. – David Bailey

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

67. Clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them. – Marc Jacobs

66. 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

65. Always dress like you’re going to see your worst enemy. – Kimora Lee

64. 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

63. I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot! – Marilyn Monroe

62. One is never over-dressed or under-dressed with a Little Black Dress. – Karl Lagerfeld

61. Whoever said that money can’t buy happiness, simply didn’t know where to go shopping. – Bo Derek

60. I don’t do fashion. I am fashion. – Coco Chanel

#59 – 50. Fashion Quotes

59. In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. – Coco Chanel

58. You can never be overdressed or overeducated. – Oscar Wilde

57. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. – Oscar Wilde

56. Fashion you can buy, but style you possess. The key to style is learning who you are, which takes years. There’s no how-to road map to style. It’s about self expression and, above all, attitude. – Iris Apfel

55. All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind. – Charles Baudelaire

54. Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. – Anthony Burgess

53. I think there is beauty in everything. What ‘normal’ people perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it. – Alexander McQueen

52. I like my money right where I can see it…hanging in my closet. – Carrie Bradshaw

51. Fashion is the armor to survive the reality of everyday life. – Bill Cunningham

50. Fashion is not necessarily about labels. It’s not about brands. It’s about something else that comes from within you. – Ralph Lauren

#49 – 40. Fashion Quotes

49. 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

48. I don’t design clothes. I design dreams. – Ralph Lauren

47. 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

46. An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it. – Robert Bresson

45. Style is the only thing you can’t buy. It’s not in a shopping bag, a label, or a price tag. It’s something reflected from our soul to the outside world- an emotion. – Alber Elbaz

44. I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect, they are much more interesting. – Marc Jacobs

43. What’s my style is not your style, and I don’t see how you can define it. It’s something that expresses who you are in your own way. – Iris Apfel

42. Style isn’t about what you wear, it’s about how you live. – Lilly Pulitzer

41. We must never confuse elegance with snobbery. – Yves Saint Laurent

40. The best things in life are free. The second best are very expensive. – Coco Chanel

#39 – 30. Fashion Quotes

39. Fashion is like eating, you shouldn’t stick to the same menu. – Kenzo Takada

38. People will stare. Make it worth their while. – Harry Winston

37. Style is something each of us already has, all we need to do is find it. – Diane von Furstenberg

36. 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

35. Florals for spring? Groundbreaking. – Miranda Priestly

34. Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year. – Fred A. Allen

33. Fashions are born and they die too quickly for anyone to learn to love them. – Bettina Ballard

32. Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak. – Rachel Zoe

31. Elegance is elimination. – Cristóbal Balenciaga

30. The only rule is don’t be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in. – Paris Hilton

#29 – 20. Fashion Quotes

29. Trendy is the last stage before tacky. – Karl Lagerfeld

28. I like my money right where I can see it: hanging in my closet. – Carrie Bradshaw

27. I make clothes, women make fashion. – Azzedine Alaïa

26. From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first. – Bertolt Brecht

25. I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity. – Diana Vreeland

24. I’m going to make everything around me beautiful – that will be my life. – Elsie de Wolfe

23. We have this saying, Christy and I. We don’t wake up for less than $10,000 a day. – Linda Evangelista

22. Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well. – Vivienne Westwood

21. Shoes transform your body language and attitude. They lift you physically and emotionally. – Christian Louboutin

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

#19 – 10. Fashion Quotes

19. Fashion is a tyrant from which there is no deliverance; all must conform to its whimsical. – Proverb

18. The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn’t look too strange in the country. – Sir Hardy Amies

17. The difference between style and fashion is quality. – Giorgio Armani

16. You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it. – Edith Head

15. Whoever said that money can’t buy happiness, simply didn’t know where to go shopping. – Bo Derek

14. A man should look as if he has bought his clothes with intelligence, put them on with care and then forgotten all about them. – Hardy Amies

13. Always something new, seldom something good. – Proverb

12. I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman. – Vera Wang

11. The dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress. – Hubert de Givenchy

10. I like my money where I can see it – hanging in my closet. – Carrie Bradshaw

#9 – 1. Fashion Quotes

9. It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion. – Yves Saint Laurent

8. You look rather rash my dear your colors don’t quite match your face. – Daisy Ashford

7. How can you live the high life if you do not wear the high heels? – Sonia Rykiel

6. The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle. – Hannah Arendt

5. Fashion is about dressing according to what’s fashionable. Style is more about being yourself. – Oscar de la Renta

4. Nineties style isn’t. – David Borenstein

3. The joy of dressing is an art. – John Galliano

2. Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant. – Proverb

1. Fashions fade, style is eternal. – Yves Saint Laurent

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