Best quotes on fashion

Fashion is more than wearing trendy clothes, accessories, and shoes. It is also not just about wearing elegant clothes. Instead, it is how you express and carry yourself with confidence. Nothing beats brushing up on your fashion knowledge and finding your own unique style. Having your own fashion sense and confidence will set you apart from everyone else in the crowd. More than this, it’ll also give you the boost you need to stay at the top of your game.

Some of the best fashion quotes are listed below.

1. “A great dress can make you remember what is beautiful about life.” – Rachel Roy
2. “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
3. “A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.” – Vera Wang
4. “Always dress like you’re going to see your worst enemy.” – Kimora Lee
5. “Anyone can get dressed up and be glamorous, but it is how people dress on their days off that are the most intriguing.” – Alexander Wang
6. “As a woman gets older, it’s more about style than fashion. A woman knowing herself more and more, and looking for new things, is getting into her own personal style, being more than just a fashion addict. I’m interested in that.” – Nicolas Ghesquière
7. “Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it’s about a good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong.” – Adriana Lima
8. “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
9. “Can you please spell Gabbana?” – Andrea Sachs
10. “Clothes are just something you put on to cover yourself―fashion is a way to communicate.” – Dries van Noten
11. “Clothes are like a good meal, a good movie, great pieces of music.” – Michael Kors
12. “Clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them.” – Marc Jacobs
13. “Comfort and simplicity are two keys that I follow when it comes to fashion.” – Fawad Khan
14. “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
15. “Don’t be afraid to express yourself through fashion!” – Chanel Iman
16. “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
17. “Don’t wear what fashion designers tell you to wear. Wear what they wear.” – Tina Fey
18. “Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they notice the woman.” – Coco Chanel
19. “Elegance is a question of personality, more than one’s clothing.” – Jean Paul Gaultier
20. “Elegance is timeless. It withstands trend; It withstands the commercialization of what fashion and style have become.” – Zac Posen
21. “Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, and lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium, and harmony.” – Paulo Coelho
22. “Elegance isn’t solely defined by what you wear. It’s how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.” – Carolina Herrera
23. “Fashion anticipates – elegance is a state of mind.” – Oleg Cassini
24. “Fashion changes, but style endures.” – Coco Chanel
25. “Fashion has always been a repetition of ideas, but what makes it new is the way you put it together.” – Carolina Herrera
26. “Fashion has to reflect who you are, what you feel at the moment and where you’re going.” – Pharrell Williams
27. “Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds.” – Coco Chanel
28. “Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.” – Oscar Wilde
29. “Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.” – Karl
30. “Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will – like an instinct.” – Edith Head
31. “Fashion is a reflection of the time.” – Anna Wintour
32. “Fashion is a religion in one sense. Once upon a time, our brand was considered the sanctum sanctorum of fashion. I want to produce things that people really want to buy.” – Alessandro Michele
33. “Fashion is a state of mind.” – Sonia Rykiel
34. “Fashion is a trend. Style lives within a person.” – Oscar de la Renta
35. “Fashion is a weapon that you can use when you need it.” – Donatella Versace
36. “Fashion is about dreaming and making other people dream.” – Donatella Versace
37. “Fashion is about dressing according to what’s fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.” – Oscar de la Renta
38. “Fashion is all about happiness. It’s fun. It’s important. But it’s not medicine.” – Donatella Versace
39. “Fashion is an art and you are the canvas.” – Velvet Paper
40. “Fashion is anything which is you and reflects your personality, and if you are comfortable with what you are wearing, you’ll look trendy and fashionable for sure.” – Yami Gautam
41. “Fashion is chaotic, and it can be an aggravation, too, but it is at its best when it allows you to express yourself.” – John Malkovich
42. “Fashion is like eating, you shouldn’t stick to the same menu.” – Kenzo Takada
43. “Fashion is more art than art is.” – Andy Warhol
44. “Fashion is not necessarily about labels. It’s not about brands. It’s about something else that comes from within you.” – Ralph Lauren
45. “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
46. “Fashion is okay for five days, one minute, six months, but style is for the rest of your life.” – Stefano Gabbana
47. “Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.” – Francis Bacon
48. “Fashion is part of our culture, and it’s about more than just a pretty dress.” – Joan Smalls
49. “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
50. “Fashion is the armor to survive the reality of everyday life.” – Bill Cunningham
51. “Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.” – Carolina Herrera
52. “Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.” – Vivienne Westwood
53. “Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.” – Quentin Crisp
54. “Fashion is what you’re offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose.” – Lauren Hutton
55. “Fashion should be a form of escapism and not a form of imprisonment.” – Alexander McQueen
56. “Fashion should be genderless; how people perceive the idea of beauty can vary from one to another.” – Alessandro Michele
57. “Fashion should be stylish and fun.” – Twiggy
58. “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
59. “Fashion, somehow for me, is purely and happily irrational.” – Hedi Slimane
60. “Fashion’s not about looking back. It’s always about looking forward.” – Anna Wintour
61. “Fashions fade, style is eternal.” – Yves Saint Laurent
62. “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
63. “Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world.” – Marilyn Monroe
64. “How can you live the high life if you do not wear the high heels?” – Sonia Rykiel
65. “Humor is a big part of my style. You have to be willing to fall on your face a bit, to be that fashion roadkill. I know so many people who are die-hard fashion people who are way more educated than I am, but I love fashion. It’s so much more important than just material.” – Zoë Kravitz
66. “I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.” – Miuccia Prada
67. “I am more vintage than I am high fashion.” – Kat Graham
68. “I can’t concentrate in flats!” – Victoria Beckham
69. “I don’t believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be the same person every day.” – Stephanie Perkins
70. “I don’t design clothes. I design dreams.” – Ralph Lauren
71. “I don’t do fashion. I am fashion.” – Coco Chanel
72. “I don’t have to choose between high fashion or streetwear. My brand reminds me that it doesn’t have to fit in a box. It can just be in a gray area.” – Virgil Abloh
73. “I don’t like women who follow fashion in the sense of becoming victims of it. I like women who have elegance, who have allure, who use fashion, rather than the other way around.” – Giorgio Armani
74. “I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.” – Bette Midler
75. “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
76. “I have married fashion and I think it has been a good wife.” – Franco Moschino
77. “I like my money right where I can see it―hanging in my closet.” – Carrie Bradshaw
78. “I love black because it affirms, designs, and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke.” – Yves Saint Laurent
79. “I love fashion and that’s how I express myself.” – Victoria Beckham
80. “I love fashion and there is no easier way to express yourself than through the clothes you wear.” – Victoria Justice
81. “I make clothes, women make fashion.” – Azzedine Alaïa
82. “I may be a beginner at some things, but I’ve got a black belt in shopping.” – Phyllis Nefler
83. “I think fashion can do a lot. Fashion is very popular, so it can help broadcast a message and reach a new generation.” – Maria Grazia Chiuri
84. “I think the fashion is super serious and humor is suspect and people don’t always know how to approach it. Sometimes people have questioned whether I was making fun of the industry or just at myself. I’m just trying to raise a smile. Clothes aren’t meant to be worshipped at a church altar. I have a different approach to most designers.” – Jeremy Scott
85. “I think there is beauty in everything. What ‘normal’ people perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.” – Alexander McQueen
86. “I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.” – Vera Wang
87. “I want to remind people of a different kind of glamour, a different look, and breaking rules of fashion. I want to break the rules.” – Dita Von Teese
88. “I’ve always admired a woman who can dress for all occasions―someone who is not fashion crazy, but you always want to look like her.” – Ralph Lauren
89. “If I can have any impact, I want women to feel good about themselves and have fun with fashion.” – Michelle Obama
90. “If loving fashion is a crime, we plead guilty.” – Anonymous
91. “If you can’t be better than your competition, just dress better.” – Anna Wintour
92. “If you love something, wear it all the time. Find things that suit you. That’s how you look extraordinary.” – Vivienne Westwood
93. “In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous.” – Elsa Schiaparelli
94. “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” – Coco Chanel
95. “In the fashion industry, everything goes retro except the prices.” – Criss Jami
96. “Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?” – Yves Saint Laurent
97. “It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.” – L. M. Montgomery
98. “It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.” – Yves Saint Laurent
99. “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. “Keep your heels, head, and standards high.” – Coco Chanel
101. “My favorite thing about beauty and fashion in all seasons is that it’s a way to reinvent ourselves.” – Jeannie Mai
102. “My style is not that big. I wear heels, tight pants, and I wear diamonds.” – Donatella Versace
103. “One is never overdressed or underdressed with a little black dress.” – Karl Lagerfeld
104. “Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who’s wearing it.” – Yves Saint Laurent
105. “Playing dress-up begins at age five and never truly ends.” – Kate Spade
106. “Shoes transform your body language and attitude. They lift you physically and emotionally.” – Christian Louboutin
107. “Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.” – Orson Welles
108. “Style is not about what you’re wearing. Style is a combination of many other things: It’s the way you move, your taste in books, your taste in a house. It’s the things you do that are different when everybody else is doing the same thing.” – Carolina Herrera
109. “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
110. “Style is very personal. It has nothing to do with fashion. Fashion is over quickly. Style is forever.” – Ralph Lauren
111. “Style, I think, is in your DNA. You can learn how to be more fashionable, you can learn how to be better dressed, but I don’t think you can learn style.” – Iris Apfel
112. “The best fashion show is definitely on the street. Always has been, and always will be.” – Bill Cunningham
113. “The best things in life are free. The second best are very expensive.” – Coco Chanel
114. “The difference between style and fashion is quality.” – Giorgio Armani
115. “The dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress.” – Hubert de Givenchy
116. “The great thing about fashion is that it always moves forward.” – Oscar de la Renta
117. “The hardest thing in fashion is not to be known for a logo, but to be known for a silhouette.” – Giambattista Valli
118. “The joy of dressing is an art.” – John Galliano
119. “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
120. “The true essence of fashion is being able to reinvent yourself with what you have.” – Melanie Fiona
121. “The truly fashionable are beyond fashion.” – Cecil Beaton
122. “The way I dress depends on how I feel. I never have to psych myself up. Usually, it just feels like it works.” – Rihanna
123. “There is no sound more feminine than a woman in a taffeta dress.” – Oscar de la Renta
124. “To me, fashion is ceaselessly fascinating because it is an expression of self.” – Anna Wintour
125. “We are witnessing a ‘gender shift.’ I, therefore, design fashion at the service of it.” – Stefano Pilati
126. “We don’t need fashion to survive, we just desire it so much.” – Marc Jacobs
127. “What I find most interesting in fashion is that it has to reflect our time. You have to witness your own moment.” – Nicolas Ghesquière
128. “What I really do believe is that anybody – and it really doesn’t matter what shape your body is – can be seductive and sexy and gorgeous and beautiful. I use an extreme idea of beauty as a way of showing Céline, but I don’t believe it has to be like that outside of the fashion show.” – Phoebe Philo
129. “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
130. “What you wear is such an expression of who you are. That’s like someone picking out who I’m going to date!” – Diane Kruger
131. “What’s becoming very obvious to me is that fashion is art.” – Lupita Nyong’o
132. “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
133. “When in doubt, wear red.” – Bill Blass
134. “Whoever said that money can’t buy happiness, simply didn’t know where to go shopping.” – Bo Derek
135. “You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it.” – Edith Head
136. “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
137. “You can wear black at any time. You can wear it at any age. You may wear it for almost any occasion.” – Christian Dior
138. “You can’t be melancholy in fashion because people don’t respond to it.” – Isaac Mizrahi
139. “You either know fashion or you don’t.” – Anna Wintour
140. “You make all the fashion statements just by dressing up your mind.” – Jason Mraz