Top 24 Quotes On Fashion

Shoot up some excitement into your day with these stimulating, and often strikingly poetic, quotes from some of the choicest designers and style icons:

1. ‘Walk like you have three men walking behind you.’ — Oscar de la Renta
2. ‘Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world.’ — Marilyn Monroe
3. ‘In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.’ — Coco Chanel
4. ‘Fashions fade, style is eternal.’ — Yves Saint Laurent
5. ‘One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.’ — Karl Lagerfeld
6. ‘Whoever said that money can’t buy happiness, simply didn’t know where to go shopping.’ — Bo Derek
7. Elegance is the only beauty that never fades.’ — Audrey Hepburn
8. So soon as a fashion is Universal, it is out of date.’ — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
9. ‘I like being a woman, even in a man’s world. After all, men can’t wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.’ — Whitney Houston
10. ‘Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.’ – Rachel Zoe
11. ‘Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.’ — Alexander McQueen
12. ‘About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.’ — Manolo Blahnik
13. ‘The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It’s the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows and the beauty of a woman only grows with passing years.’ — Audrey Hepburn
14. ‘You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur.’ — Karl Lagerfeld
15. ‘The only real elegance is in the mind; if you’ve got that, the rest really comes from it.’ — Diana Vreeland
16. ‘Style is when they’re running you out of town and you make it look like you’re leading the parade.’ — William Battie
17. ‘I don’t design clothes. I design dreams.’ — Ralph Lauren
18. ‘Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.’ — Oscar Wilde
19. ‘To me, clothing is a form of self-expression — there are hints about who you are in what you wear.’ — Marc Jacobs
20. ‘Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.’ — Orson Welles
21. ‘I don’t do fashion. I am fashion.’ — Coco Chanel
22. ‘Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.’ — Yves Saint Laurent
23. ‘A woman’s dress should be a like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.’ — Sophia Loren
24. ‘Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.’ — Leonardo da Vinci