Personal style is about a sense of yourself, a sense of what you believe in and wearing what you like. — Ralph Lauren
Style is a deeply personal expression of who you are, and every time you dress, you are asserting a part of yourself. — Nina Garcia
Personal style is about taking a risk, trying something unexpected, and having fun with fashion, but always being true to yourself. — Ralph Lauren
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
Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself. — Oscar de la Renta
The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her. — Mary Quant
Fashion is transient, trends come and go. I believe in style, not fashion. — Ralph Lauren
Fashions fade, but style is eternal. — Yves SaintLaurent
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. — Oscar Wilde
The time where people adapt to clothing is over; this is a new era where clothes adapt to people. — Yusaku Maezawa
Style of the future is the convergence of function and fashion. — Vanna Bonta
The difference between style and fashion is quality. — Giorgio Armani
Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold. — David Bowie
My style is scruffy with a touch of androgyny. — Sadie Frost
Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality. — Karl Lagerfeld
Clothing Style Image Quotes
You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
Dressing Style Quotes
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
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman. — Coco Chanel
Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are. — Gianni Versace
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
The dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress. — Hubert de Givenchy
Islam doesn't try to destroy cultures; it cleans them up. You can keep your language but get rid of your racist speech. You can keep your style of cooking, but get rid of alcohol. You can keep your cultural dresses, but keep your modesty on the highest level. — Nouman Ali Khan
Anyone can get dressed up and glamorous, but it is how people dress in their days off that are the most intriguing. — Alexander Wang
Create your own visual style... Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
Style is wearing an evening dress to McDonald's, wearing heels to play football. It is personality, confidence and seduction. — John Galliano
One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress. — Karl Lagerfeld
Decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live. — Gianni Versace
A good shoe is one that doesn't dress you but undresses you. — Christian Louboutin
How I Dress Quotes
I don't know how you get dressed if you live in Wales, because it's pouring rain and then it's hot sunshine, and then it might hail. It's just so confusing. — Piper Perabo
Let me go to Clinton's new proposal: to have uniforms in public schools. And people are doing that. How come they're doing that? Dress codes! I find that abhorrent. — Russell Means
I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be? — Orlando Bloom
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Dressing up is all about reflecting how I feel. — Blake Lively
I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures in magazine and movies. You see cowboys, Indians, old Hollywood films, Cary Grant. It has an effect on you. — Andre Benjamin
Buying something on sale is a very special feeling. In fact, the less I pay for something, the more it is worth to me. I have a dress that I paid so little for that I am afraid to wear it. I could spill something on it, and then how would I replace it for that amount of money? — Rita Rudner
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
it is my conviction that the personality of the writer has nothing to do with the literate product of his mind. And publicity in this case embarrasses me because I am acutely conscious of how far short the book falls of the artistry I am struggling to achieve. It's like being caught half-dressed. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
When I was in London for The Brits recently I read that I had asked for a Jacuzzi in the dressing room - how ridiculous is that? — Paris Hilton
English suspenders not American. Could you imagine? Just a pair of knickers and some suspenders. I don't know. How would you wear that? I think this is kind of a cute first date look. A mini sixties Ossie Clark inspired mini dress with a pair on your trotters. — Alexa Chung
You have to know yourself and know what you can carry. If you're not comfortable, no matter how well dressed you are, you're not going to look right. I'd rather be happy and feel comfy. — Iris Apfel
What Is Your Own Style Quotes
Individual style is the correct balance of knowing who you are, what works fro you, and how to develop your own personality — Giorgio Armani
I always say that I don't like it when people follow trends too much, just because it is on the runway. I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is. — Rachel Zoe
When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business. — Eartha Kitt
Your clothes should be tight enough to show you are a woman, but loose enough to show you are a lady.
I guess I'd like to have my cake and eat it, too. I want to be known for having a recognizable style. I believe having your own personal identity is what makes you competitive. On the other hand, I would like to be versatile and be challenged to go in new directions. — Cliff Martinez
I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is. — Rachel Zoe
Once you develop your own style, you know when you're able to give your best. Feeling at home is part of it, and I don't think that's an L.A. thing. It's a matter of the environment and of what affects you. — Herb Ritts
Always dress like you're going to see your worst enemy.
It is difficult to read the reviews when you start because you see something in your collection and the press sees something else. That is when you have to be very strong about your own style. They can say whatever they want, but I do what I do because I love it. — Carolina Herrera
You have to find your own style, and it's difficult to define what style is. It's not what you're wearing; it's how you wear it. It's something very personal, and it reflects the way you live and your house, the books you read, the art you have. — Carolina Herrera
It's always hard to analyze what your own style is. — Julie Davis
Don't worry about trying to develop a style. Style is what you can't help doing. If you write enough, you draw enough, you'll have a style, whether you want it or not. Don't worry about whether you're "commercial". Tell your own stories, draw your own pictures. Let other people follow you. — Neil Gaiman
Fashion And Style Quotes
Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. — Pablo Picasso
Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful. — Sophia Loren
Shoes transform your body language and attitude. They lift you physically and emotionally. — Christian Louboutin
Being happy never goes out of style.
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
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
American style is about confidence, independence, diversity and free expression. — Tommy Hilfiger
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
Stand up straight and look people in the eye. Two old-fashioned things that stand out and never go out of style. The way you carry yourself dramatically impacts how the world will engage with you. — Sahil Bloom
People will stare. Make it worth their while. — Harry Winston
Be fluid. Treat each project differently. Be water, man. The best style is no style. Because styles can be figured out. And when you have no style they can't figure you out. — Jay-Z
Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory. — Coco Chanel
Clothes And Fashion Quotes
The life my people want is a life of freedom. I have seen nothing that a white man has, houses or railways or clothing or food, that is as good as the right to move in the open country and live in our fashion. — Sitting Bull
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
I don't feel too excited about fashion today People just want cheap fast clothes and are happy to look like everyone else — Rei Kawakubo
Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants. — Karl Lagerfeld
Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt. — Elsa Schiaparelli
Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women. — Elsa Schiaparelli
How can you live the high life if you do not wear the high heels? — Sonia Rykiel
When I see beautiful clothes, I want to keep them, preserve them... Clothes, like architecture and art, reflect an era. — Azzedine Alaia
Today, fashion is really about sensuality-how a woman feels on the inside. In the '80s women used suits with exaggerated shoulders and waists to make a strong impression. Women are now more comfortable with themselves and their bodies-they no longer feel the need to hide behind their clothes. — Donna Karan
A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed. — Coco Chanel
Fashionable Clothes Quotes
The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven't had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there. — Yves Saint Laurent
The dress must not hang on the body but follow its lines. When a woman smiles the dress must smile with her. — Madeleine Vionnet
Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti. — Jacques Barzun
If you wear clothes that don't suit you, you're a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better. — Vivienne Westwood
Black is not sad. Bright colours are what depress me. They're so... empty. Black is poetic. How do you imagine a poet? In a bright yellow jacket? Probably not. — Ann Demeulemeester
My role in all of this is very simple. I make clothing like armor. My clothing protects you from unwelcome eyes. — Yohji Yamamoto
I've always thought of accessories as the exclamation point of a woman's outfit. — Michael Kors
The dress is a vase which the body follows. My clothes are like modules in which bodies move. — Pierre Cardin
The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off. — Jean Cocteau
Clothes You Wear Quotes
Beauty is not defined by the clothes you wear or the makeup on your face BUT by the way you carry your struggles with smiles, hard work & love — Lauren Jauregui
Having a good home, eating good food, wearing good clothes, are a means to living well; they are not the goals of our life. The quality of your life is decided by how peaceful and joyful you are. — Jaggi Vasudev
Just wearing all black comes from Johnny Cash. I'm on the road so much that if I wear all black my clothes never get dirty. You can't tell if I've worn the same shirt twice. — G-Eazy
You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes. — Vivienne Westwood
You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions. When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche. — Terence McKenna
Express yourself through your art - whether it’s your drawings in a sketchpad, tattoos on your skin, the shade of your lipstick, or the clothes that you wear. — Kat Von D
Bruno: "Why do you wear pajamas all day?" Shmuel: "The soldiers. They took all our clothes away." Bruno: "My dad's a soldier, but not the sort that takes people's clothes away." — John Boyne
I know for some girls, tight clothes make them feel like they can take on the world-and that's fine too. But I don't think that sexy only means showing skin: It's all about wearing whatever makes you feel the most badass. — Holland Roden
Every ordinary thing in your life is a word of God's love: your home, your work, the clothes you wear, the air you breathe, the food you eat.... the flowers under your feet are the courtesy of God's heart flung down on You! All these things say one thing only: "See how I love you." — Caryll Houselander
First class in life has nothing to do with the clothes you wear, the car you drive or the house you live in. First class is and always will be about the content of your character, the quality of your ideas and the kindness in your heart. — Cory Booker
History Of Fashion Quotes
The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering and death on other sentient beings for the trivial reasons of palate pleasure and fashion is, without doubt, one of the most arrogant and morally repugnant notions in the history of human thought. — Gary L. Francione
The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation. — Michelle Obama
I am not a good professional of fashion. I am not an expert about how clothes are constructed or the history of fashion. I never start with fashion. I always think of the girl and her personality - because all that matters to me when you look at a page is, "Do you want to be that girl?" — Carine Roitfeld
Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets - as vast and indestructible as nature itself. — Anne Rice
Because of the fashion, the young people don't have any access to the history of music, unless people like me revive it. There are very few people to revive it, because you can't earn any money doing it. — Bill Wyman
Fashion is a part of the world and part of history. It's not a meaningless swirl of meaningless clothes. They (clothes) reflect the times. — Valerie Steele
I do not believe there has ever been a name as important as Pierre Cardin in the general history of couture. — Pierre Cardin
I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written. — George Orwell
You cannot just quote from history and above all you cannot take it out of context, in however humorous a fashion . On the contrary history has a natural continuity which must be respected — Gottfried Bohm
If you look back in history of the women who are most memorable and most stylish, they were never the followers of fashion. They were the ones who were unique in their style, breakers of the rules. They were authentic, genuine, original. They were not following the trends. — Nina Garcia
Apparel Quotes
I cannot praise the common superfluity which women now use in their apparel. — John Knox
Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. — George W. Crane
He who would be singular in his apparel had need have something superlative to balance that affectation. — Owen Feltham
I do California casual a little bit better than really small European cut, tight apparel But I can rock some Gucci when I need to. I say this as I'm wearing Adidas sweatpants and a ten-year-old Chrome Hearts T-shirt. — Carson Daly
When you find a burden in belief or apparel, cast it off. — Amelia Bloomer
The sports apparel industry was dominated by the big shoe companies. But there was a void in apparel and I decided to fill it. — Kevin Plank
Well-apparel'd April on the heel
Of limping Winter treads. — William Shakespeare
Speak, what trade art thou?
Why, sir, a carpenter.
Where is thy leather apron and thy rule?
What does thou with thy best apparel on? — William Shakespeare
Modesty means to be free from undue familiarity, from indecency, from lewdness, pure in thought and conduct. Speaking of modest apparel, it means decent, seemly. The opposite of modesty is conceit, boldness, immodesty, brazenness, lewdness. — Elisabeth Elliot
Vintage Clothing Quotes
The minute you think that the past was better, your present is second hand, and yourself becomes vintage - it’s okay for clothes not that great for people — Karl Lagerfeld
I am vegetarian, so I don’t have clothes, shoes or bags made from leather or suede or any animal products. Shoes are hard to find. These are fake Uggs. And I’ve got a pair of vintage boots, which are PVC. — Leona Lewis
I wear everything from hip-hop baggy pants to beautiful Armani dresses. I also like to mix vintage clothing with designer pieces. — Julia Stiles
No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love. — Yves Saint Laurent
I always had a sense that clothes, be it uniform or vintage, could help to create a character. — Collier Schorr
When you buy a piece of vintage clothing you're not just buying the fabric and thread - you're buying a piece of someone's past — Isabel Wolff
I love to shop vintage clothes; in London, I usually go to Relic and Alfie's Market. I usually brunch around London Bridge, where I live. — Georgia May Jagger
For clothes, I like Dover Street Market and Acne. For vintage, I go to Mint just off Seven Dials. For shoes, it's Church's and Russell & Bromley. — Matt Smith
I love vintage clothes. I have a real passion which probably comes from the days of my mum who had this great dress up box that she put all her clothes from the 60s and 70s in - platform shoes and jumpsuits and boots. — Rachel McAdams
I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I'd dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period. — Illeana Douglas
I think my style revolves around the philosophy that less is more, that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. That goes for my taste in design and in clothes, and even affects the way I approach music. I'm all about keeping things simple, and minimal, but being able to convey something powerful through that approach. — G-Eazy
It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success. — George Washington Carver
If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same. — John Oates
Most competitors prefer to show off-mass produced clothing on their catwalks, or indulge in American-style marketing. We are not interested in working this way. — Bernard Arnault
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance. — Coco Chanel
There are fads and styles in the stock market just as there are in women’s clothes. — Philip Arthur Fisher
You can do terrible things when you don't know who you are. — Adam Rex
Trendy is the last stage before tacky. — Karl Lagerfeld
Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow. — Sebastian Horsley
Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something. — James Laver
I think that’s what’s so fun about fashion: that I don’t have to be defined by one particular style. It’s whatever I’m feeling that day. — Sadie Sink
1. Find your own style and have the courage to stick to it. 2. Choose your clothes for your way of life. 3. Make your wardrobe as versatile as an actress. It should be able to play many roles. 4. Find your happiest colours - the ones that make you feel good. 5. Care for your clothes, like the good friends they are! — Joan Crawford
Dressing well is a form of good manners. — Tom Ford
I keep my eyes open. I pay attention to how different types of people express their personal style, how they put their clothes together. — Cam Newton
I see blindness more as an ability and sight more as a disability because there are some people with sight who tend to judge others by what they see on the outside but I don't see that. I don't see the skin color, the hair style or the clothing people wear; I only see that which is within a person. — Patrick Henry Hughes
I like my clothes tight enough to show I'm a woman, but loose enough to show I'm a lady. — Mae West
Elegance is a physical quality. If a woman doesn't have it naked, she'll never it clothed. — Karl Lagerfeld
...Shorty's laugh was cold-blooded as he spoke so foul,
Only twelve tryin to tell me that he liked my style.
Then I rose, wiping the blunt's ash from my clothes,
Then froze, only to blow the herb smoke through my nose. — Nas
We will always buy clothes because they let us live our dreams. — Miuccia Prada
I think fashion is repulsive. The whole idea that someone else can make clothing that is supposed to be in style and make other people look good is ridiculous. It sickens me to think that there is an industry that plays to the low self-esteem of the general public. I would like the fashion industry to collapse. — Steve Albini
The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration. — Karl Lagerfeld
Personal Style comes from within. It's when the woman, her individuality and spirit come through. She uses clothes to express who she is and how she feels — Donna Karan
The goal I seek is to have people refine their style through my clothing without having them become victims of fashion. — Giorgio Armani
Elegance is not standing out, but being remembered. — Giorgio Armani
I want to make clothes that people will wear, not styles that will make a big splash on the runway. — Oscar de la Renta
No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to. — Frank Zappa
I appreciate art in any form. So it applies to clothes as well. On stage, I think people prefer me in Indian outfits... in fact, it goes with the kind of songs I sing as well. Indianness in the form of a sari, or a chaniya choli or jeans with something interesting, matches my style of singing. — Shreya Ghoshal
Every man's own character is written so all who will may read it, in the expression of his eyes, the tone of his voice, the posture of his body, the style of his clothes, and the nature of his deeds! — Napoleon Hill
For me, it's really day to day. I don't really plan ahead and I like to be excited about what I'm wearing. Being on the road all the time, it's various articles of clothing that keep me inspired and feeling good. A fun or beautiful thing to wear can change your day. I think spontaneity and not adhering to any narrow styles keep me happy. — Victoria Legrand
Anyway, there is one thing I have learned and that is not to dress uncomfortably, in styles which hurt: winklepicker shoes that cripple your feet and tight pants that squash your balls. Indian clothes are better. — George Harrison
I like comfortable clothes. Most men in the world wear T-shirts every day and jeans. I wanted to always put my street style to the high fashion looks and just make it comfortable and make it look stylish. — Tyga
Preppy clothes are built to last, since they certainly won't go out of style. — Lisa Birnbach
Style is the dress of thoughts, and let them be ever so just. — Lord Chesterfield
The truly fashionable are beyond fashion. — Cecil Beaton
I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized. — Vera Wang
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