136 Fashion Statement Quotes

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Famous Fashion Statement Quotes

Fashion is instant language. — Miuccia Prada

Fashion is self confident and fearless. - Alexander McQueen

Fashion is self confident and fearless. — Alexander McQueen

Fashion should be stylish and fun. — Sayings

Fashion is an expression of the times. Elegance is something else again. — Horst P. Horst

I've always had my own style, I've always been different. I don't like to wear anything that anyone else is wearing because it's very important for me to make a statement. — Amy Winehouse

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

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

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

In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous. - Elsa Schiaparelli

In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous. — Elsa Schiaparelli

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

What you wear represents you to the world, especially now, when communication between people is so fast. Fashion is a universal language that everyone understands. — Miuccia Prada

Fashion is transient, trends come and go. I believe in style, not fashion. — Ralph Lauren

Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. — Oscar Wilde

Fashion has to reflect who you are, what you feel at the moment, and where you're going. — Pharrell Williams

Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story. — Mason Cooley

Short Fashion Statement Quotes

  • Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going. — Andy Warhol
  • Everyday is a fashion show and the world is the runway — Coco Chanel
  • Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today. — Mary Quant
  • Fashions fade, but style is eternal. — Yves SaintLaurent
  • Fashion is so over the top. — Ben Stiller
  • Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself. — Oscar de la Renta
  • Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak. — Rachel Zoe
  • The difference between style and fashion is quality. — Giorgio Armani
  • Fashion is what you're offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose. — Lauren Hutton
  • The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her. — Mary Quant

Fashion Statement Image Quotes

Fashion statement quote Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.

Fashion And Style Quotes

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

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

Fashion statement quote Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to
Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow you most intense obsessions mercilessly.

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

Shoes transform your body language and attitude. They lift you physically and emotionally. — Christian Louboutin

Fashion statement quote Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.

Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are. — Gianni Versace

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

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

Anyone can get dressed up and glamorous, but it is how people dress in their days off that are the most intriguing. — Alexander Wang

The hardest thing in fashion is not to be known for a logo, but to be known for a silhouette. — Giambattista Valli

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

My look is attainable. Women can look like Audrey Hepburn by flipping out their hair, buying the large sunglasses, and the little sleeveless dresses. — Audrey Hepburn

Decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live. — Gianni Versace

That is the key of this collection, being yourself. 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 to live. — Gianni Versace

How can you live the high life if you do not wear the high heels? — Sonia Rykiel

I find my dress sense tends to be a bit of a mixture between high fashion and unique vintage pieces with a little bit of street trends. For example, I might find a really nice, suede dinner jacket that I'd wear with a basic plain white shirt and some chinos and a pair of Nike trainers. — Tinie Tempah

If you can't be better than your competition, just dress better. — Anna Wintour

Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends. - Janice Dickinson

Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends. — Janice Dickinson

Working in a salon, you look at trends all day long. You're looking at color all the time, what new products are coming out. You're a part of the fashion industry, especially if you're working in a higher-end salon. — Christian Siriano

Love Fashion Quotes

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

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

As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them. — Henry Ward Beecher

I had no interest in fashion when I was younger. I was such a tomboy. I loved soccer, as you call it, or sports in general. The first time I was a bridesmaid, to my auntie, I refused to go down the aisle without my football shorts underneath my dress. — Cara Delevingne

True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds -- a handful of stars tossed into the night sky. — Jim Bishop

My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that? — Bob Hope

This is the kind of fashion I grew up on - a good pair of trainers, great denim - and I will always love high-end streetwear. — Tinie Tempah

I love my Adidas. — Joe Gatto

Fashion is only complete when it is worn by ordinary people who exist now, managing their lives, loving and grieving. — Yohji Yamamoto

Fashion Today Quotes

I say, dress to please yourself. Listen to your inner muse and take a chance. Wear something that says 'Here I am!' today. — Iris Apfel

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

I bought a pair of Birkenstocks today - let's be real. I wanted a chunky sandal that was functional. That should tell you where I am at as far as fashion. — Chloe Sevigny

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

Whoever we may be, whatever our immediate interest, however much we carry baggage from our past, however much we have been caught by the fashion of cynicism and loss of faith in the capacity of the people, let us err today and say - nothing can stop us now! — Thabo Mbeki

The difference between the girls today and models of the past is that we are not only interested in fashion: we are going in so many different directions at once. We work harder -- at night and on weekends. On the modeling profession — Claudia Schiffer

Call me a relic, call me what you will, say I'm old fashion, say I'm over the hill. Today's music ain't got the same soul, I like that old time rock and roll. — Bob Seger

Peter Kropotkin described Anarchism as the extreme left wing of socialism - a view with which I completely agree. One of my deepest concerns today is that the libertarian socialist core will be eroded by fashionable, post- modernist, spiritualist, mystic individualism. — Murray Bookchin

All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life. — Alberto Giacometti

Fashion is about today and tomorrow. Nobody cares how good you used to be — Paul Smith

Fashion Show Quotes

Real elegance is everywhere, especially in the things that don't show. - Christian Dior

Real elegance is everywhere, especially in the things that don't show. — Christian Dior

Karate is Budo and if Budo is removed from Karate it is nothing more than sport karate, show karate, or even fashion karate-the idea of training merely to be fashionable. — Mas Oyama

One does not invite a thousand guests to watch a procession of dresses which could be seen on a coat hanger or in a show room. — Bernard Arnault

When you're an outsider or a misfit, if you play it smart, your motto should be, 'I'll show 'em. I will show you.' — Wendy Williams

I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green and had no idea what an undertaking it is. I also have a new respect for models because they are so close to the front row and must be so self-conscious. — Eddie Redmayne

Life is a fashion show, the world is your runway. — Marc Jacobs

I think I was the first to show that a designer could be like a rock star, that people should love your fashion but also put your name together with your fashion. — Roberto Cavalli

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

Daily life shouldn't be a fashion show all the time. — Leighton Meester

I still believe in the old fashioned ways of showing a woman Respect and Honor!! — Angela Merkel

Great Fashion Quotes

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. — Franz Kafka

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

Maybe it makes me old-fashioned, but investing to me is about owning great companies for many, many years. — Francois Rochon

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

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

A great dress can make you remember what is beautiful about life. — Rachel Roy

Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory. - Coco Chanel

Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory. — 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

In terms of fashion, I love adding a fun scarf to whatever I'm wearing - it's a great way to dress up a plain outfit! — Bridgit Mendler

If you look at any great fashion photograph out of context, it will tell you just as much about what's going on in the world as a headline in the New York Times. — Anna Wintour

Fashion And Art 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

For me fashion is an expression of art that is very closely related both to me and to my body. I see it as an expression of identity combined with desire, moods and a cultural setting. — Iris van Herpen

Fashion is not art. The aims of fashion and art are different and there is no need to compare them. — Rei Kawakubo

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

MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world. — Karlie Kloss

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

Art is the only thing you cannot punch a button for. You must do it the old-fashioned way. Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises. — Leontyne Price

Of course there is a lot of fluidity now between art, architecture and fashion - a lot more cross-pollination in the disciplines, but this isn't about competition, it's about collaboration and what these practices and processes can contribute to one another. — Zaha Hadid

Fashions pass quickly, and nothing is more pathetic than those puppets of fashion outrageously made up one day, pale the next, pleated or ironed stiff, libertine or ascetic. Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don't burn your wings. — Yves Saint Laurent

Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature. — Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Fashion Icon Quotes

Elegance is the only beauty that never fades. - Audrey Hepburn

Elegance is the only beauty that never fades. — Audrey Hepburn

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

I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth. - Karl Lagerfeld

I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth. — Karl Lagerfeld

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

Style is very personal. It has nothing to do with fashion. Fashion is over quickly. Style is forever. — Ralph Lauren

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

It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves - motifs of rebellion. — Vivienne Westwood

Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring. — Diana Vreeland

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

I like a basic uniform for guys. Steve Jobs is my fashion icon, because he wears the same outfit every day. If you always wear the same thing, you make a statement. Then put a bow tie on and really stand out. — Dhani Jones

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More Fashion Statement Quotes

The Ladybug wears no disguises. She is just what she advertises. A speckled spectacle of spring, A fashion statement on the wing.... A miniature orange kite. A tiny dot-to-dot delight. — J. Patrick Lewis

You are criticizing me for my fashion statement. My wife keeps on criticizing me for my blank bank statement — Arvind Kejriwal

Cruelty is one fashion statement we can all do without. — Rue McClanahan

I really think that creating clothes and fashion has to be a statement about how we live and where we live and what's happening in the world. — Sarah Burton

I'm really interested in the idea of anomynity and familiarity. And sunglasses, you know, are so indicatitve of that. I mean, they're worn by some people to hide themselves. But they're also a fashion statement, meant to be noticed. So there's a dichotomy there. — Sarah Dessen

I wear heels. It's not for a fashion statement, it's... ammunition. — Nikki Haley

It's my job to look presentable but that doesn't mean I have to make a fashion statement everytime I walk out the house. — Katrina Kaif

All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind. — Charles Baudelaire

Market values are fixed only in part by balance sheets and income statements; much more by the hopes and fears of humanity; by greed, ambition, acts of God, invention, financial stress and strain, weather, discovery, fashion and numberless other causes impossible to be listed without omission. — Gerald M. Loeb

Although a life-long fashion dropout, I have absorbed enough by reading Harper's Bazaar while waiting at the dentist's to have grasped that the purpose of fashion is to make A Statement. My own modest Statement, discerned by true cognoscenti, is, "Woman Who Wears Clothes So She Won't Be Naked. — Molly Ivins

Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity. — Jess C Scott

I don't really step out the house trying to make a fashion statement. I step out the house making sure I'm comfortable. — Asher Roth

I didn't set out to do something different so much as do something that interested me. I wasn't trying to be avant-garde - that's being fashionable. You don't set out to revolutionize art, you make statements for yourself. — Arnold Newman

People think I'm trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It's really that I'm a tomboy at heart. — Cameron Diaz

I was the bohemian in my family, the "this is my favorite shoe and I don't care if it has tape around it" kind of person. The tape could become a fashion statement. Or a political statement. — Erykah Badu

Art happens when anyone in the world takes any kind of material and fashions it into a deliberate statement. — Thomas Hoving

I sometimes feel that a pattern is almost a fashion statement in itself. — Jil Sander

Fashion is about owning whatever you're wearing, regardless of if it's a high fashion statement or not. — Darren Criss

You make all the fashion statements just by dressing up your mind. — Jason Mraz

How we dress is, as far as I can tell, the only inescapably public choice that we have. People don't need to know what you eat, people don't need to know who you have sex with. But there's no escaping what you wear and the fact that you've chosen it. Even if you insist that you don't care about fashion, that's your statement. It's really one realm of life where you are forced to make your own statement. — Michael Cunningham

I never try to make a major fashion statement but I want to be the friend in a woman's closet. I make dresses that women get laid in. — Diane von Furstenberg

Our findings do not represent a quick fix, or the next fashion statement in a long string of management fads, or the next buzzword of the day, or a new 'program' to introduce. No! The only way to make any company visionary is through a long-term commitment to an eternal process of building the organization to preserve the core and stimulate progress. — James C. Collins

In the metropolitan haunts of the highly sophisticated, the cocktail is no longer an instrument of friendship but a competitive fashion statement, or one-upmanship. — Barbara Holland

I am very proud of Zendaya for standing up for herself, her generation and her ancestors. Her response was classy. Locs are a lifestyle for some and for others an artistic fashion statement..In either case, the images express power, natural beauty, and a boldness that always stands out. It is when you truly spend time with a person that you know who they really are on the inside, and not by what you see on the outside. — Ledisi

Embrace yourself and do what you can to look and feel your best. Dont put on so many fashion trends that create a ridiculous style statement. Pick and choose what feels good, and flatters your own body. — Camila Alves

You want me to sneak up on an angel and rip out its pinfeathers, so you can make a fashion statement? — Simon R. Green

A lot of people that buy vinyl today don’t realise that they’re listening to CD masters on vinyl and that’s because the record companies have figured out that people want vinyl, And they're only making CD masters in digital, so all the new products that come out on vinyl are actually CDs on vinyl, which is really nothing but a fashion statement. — Neil Young

The key to looking great in the evening is to look original. Try to look different from others without looking out of place. When everyone else is wearing black, stand out in a bold, bright color. When everyone else is wearing dress that falls to the floor, shock them with a short gold brocade suit. But try not to overdo it. Focus on one thing: Will it be a statement neckclace, a stunning pair of earrings, or really big hair? You decide. — Isaac Mizrahi

Well you are fresh Your face is fabulous Don’t forget you’re one of a kind When nobody’s checking the deeds you’ve done And nobody’s hearing your cries You make all the fashion statements Just by dressing up your mind ((Beauty in Ugly)) — Jason Mraz

I suppose he's making a real fashion statement, but this is high school. You're not supposed to be real. You're supposed to be enough like everyone else to get through and out into the waiting world. — Elizabeth Scott

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