169 Designer Clothes Quotes

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Famous Designer Clothes Quotes

I don't design clothes, I design dreams. — Ralph Lauren

Clothes are fun. The designers have so much fun making them, you should have fun wearing them, too. — Rita Ora

Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers. — Alexander McQueen

With clothes, I like mixing what different designers do until it becomes a personal expression of how I'm feeling that day. — ASAP Rocky

The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her. - Mary Quant

The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her. — Mary Quant

I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces. — Cara Delevingne

I wear everything from hip-hop baggy pants to beautiful Armani dresses. I also like to mix vintage clothing with designer pieces. — Julia Stiles

Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess. — Edna Woolman Chase

Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess. — Edna W. Chase

When I see beautiful clothes, I want to keep them, preserve them... Clothes, like architecture and art, reflect an era. — Azzedine Alaia

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality. — Karl Lagerfeld

I like to mix and match vintage with designer. It's how I create my own style. — Carly Rae Jepsen

Fashion is what you're offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose. — Lauren Hutton

We will always buy clothes because they let us live our dreams. — Miuccia Prada

I love clothes and fashion more than music — Roberto Cavalli

Short Designer Clothes Quotes

  • Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes. — Vivienne Westwood
  • Fashion is so over the top. — Ben Stiller
  • Fashion should be stylish and fun. — Sayings
  • Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies. — Samuel Butler
  • A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense. — Bruno Munari
  • Fashion is instant language. — Miuccia Prada
  • Certain dressmakers desire to pass for an artist. I have one ambition: that is to have good taste. — Jean Patou
  • Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story. — Mason Cooley
  • Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable. — Donna Karan
Designer clothes quote You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they s
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.

Wearing Designer Clothes Quotes

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

One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress. — Karl Lagerfeld

Trendy is the last stage before tacky. — Karl Lagerfeld

Designer clothes quote Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes. — Edith Head

When I was designing, I had in mind Jimi Hendrix, and I could hardly find skinny indie black kids to wear my clothes. I remember one telling me he had to swap his skinny jeans for baggy ones in the subway before going home, so he wouldn't get in trouble in his neighborhood. — Hedi Slimane

Growing up, Guess always had these amazing billboards and cool affordable clothing. I wore it then, and I still wear it now! It's come full-circle. When I design the clothes, I have a very good team around me, showing me different pieces and cuts. — Tiesto

Designer clothes quote Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.
Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.

The reason I go for the designers is because they make me feel good. It's about finding clothes that make you feel good as a woman. If I like it, I'll wear it. You have to go with your instincts and not be led by trends. — Cheryl Cole

I'm not at all interested in doing clothes for movies or stage, in stage dressing or costuming. Nor can I design lingerie, for I never wear any! At one time I used to wear a lot of lingerie but now I'm in a mood of total nudity! — Sonia Rykiel

It was the Almighty who decreed that men and women must cover their nakedness by wearing proper and modest clothing. No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness. — Mark E. Petersen

For each episode the five of us are all wearing clothes by the same designer. It's a different designer for each episode, but for each one we're all wearing their clothes. — Ted Allen

Designer Wear Quotes

The true artists that make LVMH a success… They want people to wear their dresses, or spray their perfume, or carry the luggage they have designed. — Bernard Arnault

Say goodbye to the age-old stereotypes of seduction. Seductive, but not a seductress, a woman wears a scent to reveal her personality. — Paco Rabanne

Not long ago, I said to one of our designers, ‘Why don’t you take a trip to Japan and see what the teenage girls are wearing on the streets at night?… I did not say to the designer, Go and see what kinds of shoes they are wearing and copy them.’ — Bernard Arnault

To wear dreams on one's feet is to begin to give reality to one's dreams. - Roger Vivier

To wear dreams on one's feet is to begin to give reality to one's dreams. — Roger Vivier

I thought if people were going to talk about what I wear, wouldn't it be good if they were talking about who designed it, who made it and if that's a Scottish company, so teaming up with Totty Rocks has been fantastic. — Nicola Sturgeon

It is just as disastrous to have the wrong accessories in your room, as it is to wear sport shoes with an evening dress. — Dorothy Draper

Designer clothes quote Your clothes should be tight enough to show you are a woman, but loose enough to show you are a lady
Your clothes should be tight enough to show you are a woman, but loose enough to show you are a lady.

It's not what you spend but how you wear it that counts. The key is often to dress up inexpensive basics with accessories. Something like a beautiful designer bag or belt can make everything else look richer and more luxurious. — Chloe Sevigny

Just look at all the awards shows now. It has turned into a catwalk. You have to be wearing a certain designer, a certain dress, and everyone's critiquing. — Portia de Rossi

Uniqueness does not come from external things that people do to themselves or other things like what they wear. All the uniqueness that radiates to the world comes from how you deal with the world, your best inner strengths. It never comes from a tattoo or a designer outfit. — Eva Mozes Kor

I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear. — Vera Wang

Designer Brand Quotes

A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range. Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike. — Al Ries

If design isn't profitable, then it's art. — Henrik Fisker

A lot of sneaker brands come to me, not even just designers. They come to me with ideas trying to push different things, and I want it to be stuff that I feel is organic. — Fabolous

Designer clothes quote Always dress like you're going to see your worst enemy.
Always dress like you're going to see your worst enemy.

Fashion is not necessarily about labels. It's not about brands. It's about something else that comes from within you. — Ralph Lauren

MY INSPIRATION FOR THIS LIMITED EDITION DESIGN WAS BASED ON THE LEGACY OF HENNESSY AS A BRAND. TO ME, HENNESSY HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT QUALITY, AUTHENTICITY, TRADITION, AND ELEGANCE. — Shepard Fairey

I love the fact that I work with everything that has to do with the brand, the product, the environment, the online, the architecture, the web design, because I am somebody that loves making things, making experiences, creating things that people love to engage with. — Christopher Bailey

Designer clothes quote Good design is obvious, great design is transparent.
Good design is obvious, great design is transparent.

Ksubi' - the Australian jean brand, they're one of my favourite brands of just clothes and stuff, and the Swedish brand 'Acne', but other than that, not at this point in time designing. I wouldn't mind collab'n with those guys though. — ASAP Rocky

In designing a lifestyle brand, you have to know more than just designing clothes. — Tommy Hilfiger

I created my bags from the notion of developing a well-edited line of fashionable, but not "trendy" handbags. By designing styles that will be as relevant tomorrow as they are today, my brand has established itself as a modern classic. — Kate Spade

Increasingly, corporations will look to advertising agencies for direction. Without an understanding of brand creation, messaging, and strategy, today's designers are destined to become the haidressers of tomorrow's creative environments-great for styling but light on strategy. — Hartmut Esslinger

Fashion Designer Quotes

The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design. — Massimo Vignelli

Haters are just confused admirers because they can't figure out the reason why everyone loves you. — Jeffree Star

I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion. — Yohji Yamamoto

Designer clothes quote Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak
Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak

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

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

Designer clothes quote Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

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

Elegance and comfort are not incompatible, and whoever maintains the contrary simply doesn't know what he's talking about — Salvatore Ferragamo

The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy. — Yves Saint Laurent

No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness. — Spencer W. Kimball

Expensive Clothes Quotes

I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction of costliness of their finery. I know the problem lies elsewhere. I don't know where. I only know it isn't where women think. — Marguerite Duras

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery. — Richard Buckminster Fuller

I hate the word 'cheap'. People are cheap. Clothing is either expensive or inexpensive. — Karl Lagerfeld

Designer clothes quote If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan.
If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan.

To reinvent a newly impeccable you in the most modern of outfits, don't skip on makeup and be sure to have flawless skin and hair. That will have more impact than expensive clothes. — Karl Lagerfeld

My clothes are great for a honeymoon: They’re light and sexy, colorful and pretty, and not expensive. — Diane Von Furstenberg

Some say the economy means that you have to persuade people to invest in clothes - to buy less things but more expensive things. I disagree - invest in jewelry, or a house, maybe, but not in fashion. — Donatella Versace

Designer clothes quote There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.
There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.

I cap myself when I shop; I don't like to spend extravagant amounts on clothes. But, I do get lent clothes for events, it's scary to wear something so expensive, but I feel really pampered. — Taylor Swift

I can't say I prefer blondes, brunettes, or redheads. I like emotion and elegance. Even expensive clothes do not guarantee a good look. You must be yourself above all! — Robert Pattinson

Today the devil as a wolf in supposedly a new suit of sheep’s clothing is enticing some men to parrot his line by advocating planned government guaranteed security at the expense of our liberties. — Ezra Taft Benson

Don't use expensive clothes as a screen for your personal doubts. Be proud of yourself — Karl Lagerfeld

Designer Shoes Quotes

There is no limit to beauty, no saturation point in design, no end to the material. — Salvatore Ferragamo

When you sit down to design something, it can be anything, a car, a toaster, a house, a tall building or a shoe, what you draw or what you design is really a culmination of everything that you've seen and done in your life previous to that point. — Tinker Hatfield

Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants. — Karl Lagerfeld

A good shoe is one that doesn't dress you but undresses you. - Christian Louboutin

A good shoe is one that doesn't dress you but undresses you. — Christian Louboutin

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

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

There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes. — Manolo Blahnik

Designer clothes quote Lifes too short to wear boring clothes!
Lifes too short to wear boring clothes!

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance. — Coco Chanel

The secret of toe cleavage, a very important part of the sexuality of the shoe; you must only show the first two cracks. — Manolo Blahnik

These are my shoes that I designed from top to the very sole to the very top to the bottom. Laces. — Ryan Lochte

You cannot design shoes if you only think about fashion; its too realistic. When I design, I dream. — Giuseppe Zanotti

Beautiful Clothes 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

Grooming is the secret of real elegance. The best clothes, the most wonderful jewels, the most glamorous beauty don't count without good grooming. — Christian Dior

There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace. — Richard Pryor

I like joy; I want to be joyous; I want to have fun on the set; I want to wear beautiful clothes and look pretty. I want to smile and I want to make people laugh. And that's all I want. I like it. I like being happy. I want to make others happy. — Doris Day

People will stare. Make it worth their while. — Harry Winston

Lingerie is my next love after clothing; I think it is what is worn underneath that really inspires a woman to feel beautiful in her clothes - that inner, secret glamour. — Alice Temperley

I was the eldest daughter with these four beautiful younger sisters with ringlets and pretty faces, and I used to dress them up in Victorian clothes and take them out for the day and pretend they were mine. — Sadie Frost

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed? — Michelangelo

A glass pitcher, a wicker basket, a tunic of coarse cloth. Their beauty is inseparable from their function. Handicrafts belong to a world existing before the separation of the useful and the beautiful. — Octavio Paz

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair. — Audrey Hepburn

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

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

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

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

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

A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed. — Coco Chanel

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

Clothes as text, clothes as narration, clothes as a story. Clothes as the story of our lives. And if you were to gather all the clothes you have ever owned in all your life, each baby shoe and winter coat and wedding dress, you would have your autobiography. — Linda Grant

You can do terrible things when you don't know who you are. — Adam Rex

Fashionable Clothes Quotes

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

Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti. — Jacques Barzun

To me, clothing is a form of self-expression - there are hints about who you are in what you wear. — Marc Jacobs

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

Elegance is elimination. — Cristobal Balenciaga

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

Nice Clothes Quotes

A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika. — Dorothy Parker

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential. — Barack Obama

Because of baseball I smelled the rose of life. I wanted to travel, and to have nice clothes. Baseball allowed me to do all those things, and most important, during my time with the Crawfords, it allowed me to become a member of the brotherhood of friendship which will last forever. — Cool Papa Bell

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

Be sure to wear a good cologne, a nice aftershave lotion, and a strong underarm deodorant. And it might be a good idea to wear some clothes, too. — George Burns

I tried on the farmer's hat, Didn't fit. . . A little too small - just a bit Too floppy. . . . . I tried on the summer sun, Felt good. Nice and warm - knew it would. Tried the grass beneath bare feet, Felt neat. Finally, finally felt well dressed, Nature's clothes fit me best. — Shel Silverstein

I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes. — Alexei Sayle

Beware the old man in young guy's clothes. If he's over 35 and comes to pick you up looking as though he's headed for a skateboarding competition while you are dressed to go to a nice restaurant, this is not a good sign. — Merrill Markoe

I like nice clothes, whether they're dodgy or not. — David Beckham

I have never been a believer that nice clothes should only be for people with money. — Sayings

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More Designer Clothes Quotes

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

I want industrial design to be a public subject. I want people to love objects the way they love clothing. — Karim Rashid

I've always been quite thrifty. I can't bear to spend hundreds of pounds on designer clothes. I shop in second-hand shops in Portobello Road and go to Sue Ryder. — Ashley Jensen

When we are young, we think life will be like a supo: one fabric, one weave, one grand design. But in truth, life turns out to be more like the patchwork cloths-bits and pieces, odds and ends-people, places, things we never expected, never wanted, perhaps. — Alan Brennert

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

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

A dog has no use for fancy cars or big homes or designer clothes. Status symbols mean nothing to him. A waterlogged stick will do just fine. A dog judges others not by their color or creed or class but by who they are inside. A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his. — John Grogan

I love fashion, and I simply enjoy good design in clothes and regard that as one of my hobbies. — Martha C. Nussbaum

I design for the woman who loves being a woman. — Diane Von Furstenberg

I love clothes, but really I don't have that much to say about skirts. Before I was writing, I went to fashion shows only when the designer was a good friend and I was there to show support. — Padma Lakshmi

The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration. — Karl Lagerfeld

Anything I do, I do with 110 percent. Right now, my biggest goal is the 2016 Olympics. My main focus is that. But after the sport of swimming-when it's all said and done-I want to get involved in fashion. I want to design my own clothing line. I'm very into fashion. It's something I really want to focus on when swimming is over. — Ryan Lochte

An athletic man, or whatever you want to call him, will only look good in a very classic suit, a pair of classic jeans, athletic clothes or simply naked. Forget fashion. This is not going to happen, unless you want to look like a Chippendales dancer in designer clothes. — Hedi Slimane

...If our houses, or clothes, our household furniture and utensils are not works of art, they are either wretched makeshifts, or, what is worse, degrading shams of better things. — William Morris

I'm not really a fashion designer. I just love clothes. I've never been to design school. I can't sketch. I can't cut patterns and things. I can shorten things. I can make a dress out of a scarf. — Kate Moss

The reason why I started the clothing line Licious is because I had trouble finding clothes for my body type. I figured if I'm having trouble finding clothes for me, being curvy, I know girls with my body type are probably facing the same issue. And so with the help of my designer, I came up with the idea of creating my own clothing line. — Coco Austin

...there is no doubt something will be done sooner or later to enable us to put on a house every day, just as we put on clothes or choose a book to read or a theater to go to, like choosing a day to be lived, within the limits grated by other destinies or chances. — Ettore Sottsass

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