51 Adorable Fashion Quotes

Each of these quotes is about fashion, they’re about a whole lot greater than that. Style plays on life, on art, online love! If a designer is talking of a moving dress or part of fashion, their voice usually relates with much more. Several of the quotes on this list are bright and short, while some are more thoughtful and profound. Still, they are virtually iconic.

1. “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
2. “Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.” – Rachel Zoe
3. “It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.” – Yves Saint Laurent
4. “Fashion is the armor to survive the reality of everyday life.” – Bill Cunningham
5. “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
6. “Always dress like you’re going to see your worst enemy.” – Kimora Lee
7. “Fashion is not necessarily about labels. It’s not about brands. It’s about something else that comes from within you.” – Ralph Lauren
8. “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” – Coco Chanel
9. “Clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them.” – Marc Jacobs
10. “We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.” – Yves Saint Laurent
11. “Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.” – Sir Francis Bacon
12. “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
13. “Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing, and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.” – Vivienne Westwood
14. “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
15. “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
16. “Fashion should be a form of escapism and not a form of imprisonment.” – Alexander McQueen
17. “Over the years, I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.” – Yves Saint Laurent
18. “We don’t need fashion to survive, we just desire it so much.” – Marc Jacobs
19. “In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.” – Christian Dior
20. “Clothes are like a good meal, a good movie, great pieces of music.” – Michael Kors
21. “The joy of dressing is an art.” – John Galliano
22. “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
23. “You either know fashion or you don’t.” – Anna Wintour
24. “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
25. “Fashion is what you’re offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose.” – Lauren Hutton
26. “Florals for spring? Groundbreaking.” – Miranda Priestly, The Devil Wears Prada
27. “I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.” – Diana Vreeland
28. “One is never over-dressed or under-dressed with a Little Black Dress.” – Karl Lagerfeld
29. “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
30. “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
31. “Shoes transform your body language and attitude. They lift you physically and emotionally.” – Christian Louboutin
32. “I like my money right where I can see it: hanging in my closet.” – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex And The City
33. “She can beat me, but she cannot beat my outfit.” – Rihanna
34. “I’m a very down-to-earth person, but it is my job to make that earth more pleasant.” – Karl Lagerfeld
35. “In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous.” – Elsa Schiaparelli
36. “I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can’t possess radiance, you can only admire it.”– Elizabeth Taylor
37. “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
38. “I know what women look good in. I don’t think the rules ever change.” – Michael Kors
39. “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
40. “Fashion changes, but style endures.” – Coco Chanel
41. “We have this saying, Christy and I. We don’t wake up for less than $10,000 a day.” – Linda Evangelista
42. “You can have anything you want, if you dress for it.” – Edith Head
43. “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
44. “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
45. “I design for the woman who loves being a woman.” – Diane von Furstenberg
46. “Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.” – Karl Lagerfeld
47. “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
48. “I am anti-pants.” – Lena Dunham
49. “I have four bedrooms in my house. One is for guests, the other three are for closets.” – André Leon Talley
50. “When you don’t feel to dress means that you are depressed. You need a fashion shower.” – Anna Dello Russo
51. “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