179 Fashion World Quotes

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Famous Fashion World Quotes

Everyday is a fashion show and the world is the runway - Coco Chanel

Everyday is a fashion show and the world is the runway — Coco Chanel

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

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

Paris dictates fashion to the whole world. — Maria Callas

Fashion is so over the top. — Ben Stiller

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

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

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 instant language. — Miuccia Prada

Fashion is such an octopus. You're connected to so many people: suppliers, pattern makers, production teams, marketing teams, vendors. — Raf Simons

The fashion world doesn't know the word stop, so you have to make sure there are sublime moments every day. — Raf Simons

Fashion is about dreaming and making other people dream. — Donatella Versace

Fashion is my passion, and I respect the creativity that you find in its different levels. — Max Azria

Fashion goes round in circles. — Siobhan Fahey

Short Fashion World Quotes

  • You can create fashion everywhere in the world, but the place where you are crowned is Paris. — Sonia Rykiel
  • Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. — Coco Chanel
  • Fashion is like a party. Getting dressed is preparing to play a role. — Yves Saint Laurent
  • In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous. — Elsa Schiaparelli
  • Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess. — Edna Woolman Chase
  • Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess. — Edna W. Chase
  • I love clothes and fashion more than music — Roberto Cavalli
  • Fashions fade, but style is eternal. — Yves SaintLaurent
  • Disco is a major influence in the world of fashion. — Neil Bogart
  • Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today. — Mary Quant

Top 10 Fashion World Quotes

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful. — Sophia Loren

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

Old-fashioned, Spirit-filled, Christ-honoring, sin-hating, soul-winning, Bible-preaching. It is the hope of the church. It is the hope of the nation. It is the hope of the world. — Jack Hyles

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

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

Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring - Mario Testino

Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring — Mario Testino

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

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

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

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 World Image Quotes

Fashion world quote The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anyt
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

Fashion Life 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

Listen to the long stillness: New life is stirring New dreams are on the wing New hopes are being readied: Humankind is fashioning a new heart Humankind is forging a new mind God is at work. This is the season of Promise — Howard Thurman

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

Fashion world quote I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation
I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.

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

You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life. — Coco Chanel

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

Fashion world quote The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.
The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.

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

Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well. — Vivienne Westwood

I'm not that interested in fashion... When someone says that lime-green is the new black for this season, you just want to tell them to get a life. — Bruce Oldfield

Style is wearing an evening dress to McDonald's, wearing heels to play football. It is personality, confidence and seduction. — John Galliano

Fashion Details Quotes

Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it. — Jean De La Bruyere

Luxury lives in the finer details. It's a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It's a mint on your pillow before bed. — Iggy Azalea

Like this. The wristbands you get at nightclubs next to all the bracelets? It's always the details that give me the ideas. It's fun to play with fashion because it is a fantasy. Each morning you dress to become a different woman. Fashion helps. — Carine Roitfeld

For theater, the fashion had to have a certain grandeur that would read on the stage while also flattering the actress. The same thing applies when doing a wedding dress, but the treatments can be more delicate and there can be much more detail. — Austin Scarlett

There is a reason cases are tried in a court of law, not in the court of the public and not by the media, because details have to come out in excruciating and minute fashion, detail by detail, bit of evidence by bit of evidence. — Angela Corey

Research is always a high priority in my fiction. Songs, fashion, politics, television, movies, trends - I try to get those details right. — Mitali Perkins

Don't start with the details. Start with the key ideas, and in a hierarchical fashion, form the details around these larger notions. — John Medina

Fans don't lie. They just tell you what they really think, and they see details that even people in fashion don't. — Nicola Formichetti

Putting on a beautifully designed suit elevates my spirit, extols my sense of self, and helps define me as a man to whom details matter. — Gay Talese

Fashion Color Quotes

I hate fashion. Or the word fashion, which sounds colorful, extravagant, expensive and gorgeous. “I never wanted to walk the main street of fashion. I have been walking the sidewalks of fashion from the beginning, so I’m a bit dark. — Yohji Yamamoto

If the shoe fits, buy it in every color! - Jerry Smith

If the shoe fits, buy it in every color! — Jerry Smith

Men - the colour of their tie is the most difficult decision they have to make every day. — Nicola Sturgeon

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

Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony. — Coco Chanel

Gaiety is one of the most important elements I brought to fashion. I brought it through color. — Emilio Pucci

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

To me, you can't have style without being inspired. When I design a collection, I am inspired by so many things. The color of a flower. The shape of a butterly's wing. The juxtaposition of an old tenement building next to a shiny new skyscraper. — Isaac Mizrahi

When I went to Fashion Week, I was very disappointed by how few women of color were in those shows. I do speak to the younger girls, and I hear them when they say they're not getting the big contracts or into the big shows. — Beverly Johnson

Fashion is more than just how many colors and patterns you can put on at once. Being a great dresser is not necessarily about the colors you put on. It's about putting things together in the right way and then trying different things. — Dwyane Wade

Fashion Industry Quotes

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

There are very few industries that I know of - I mean, there are companies in fashion, in cosmetics. — Jensen Huang

This is a very fashionable charge to bring against a company. This is one of the consequences, in this country, of being in the Internet industry. I think it's quite scandalous, they brought the weakest charges they had. — James Hunt

There was no relationship between a wedding dress and fashion. There was no good taste, either. I realized that I could make an impression in terms of changing and readdressing the whole industry of bridal. — Vera Wang

I'm not an elitist. I hate the fashion industry sometimes because it becomes so focused on the elite. — Nicola Formichetti

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

Just because you work in the fashion industry, it doesn't mean you live your life in fashion. — Phillip Lim

Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so. — Naomi Wolf

Sexy for me is a curvy woman - doesn't have to be skinny, which I hate anyway. I'm glad [the fashion industry] is changing slowly a little bit now to get more into the boobs and hips again. — Heidi Klum

Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women. — Naomi Wolf

Fashion Week Quotes

New York Fashion Week comes only twice a year, make it count — Tommy Hilfiger

What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after. — Wendell Phillips

One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week! — Zendaya

I stretch in the morning a lot and I do a lot of saunas and steam rooms during fashion week just to keep my blood flowing. — Gigi Hadid

London Fashion Week is so different from any of the others. Compared to the strictness in New York, London seems freer from commercial constraints. Truer to the process, to street style, to a sense of humour. — Alexa Chung

I hadn't really been in that world for too long. It was fun for me, but definitely wasn't my world. When I went to my first Paris Fashion Week, I had been invited to the Louis Vuitton show by Nicolas. We met there. It was all organic and fun for me. — Selena Gomez

I love Fall Fashion Week because it means lots of layering, long sweaters and vintage coats. — Rachel Zoe

You should always change at least three times a day during Fashion Week. — Selita Ebanks

At the end of the week, it's nice to just hang out in a pair of jeans and let my hair down. I need a break from all that fashion! — Sayings

Someone once I asked my son Cruz, 'When's your birthday?' and he told them, 'It's just after Fashion Week!' — Victoria Beckham

Fashion Business Quotes

Remember this: No one is looking at your imperfections; they're all too busy worrying about their own. — Isaac Mizrahi

Both film and fashion are businesses where the audience doesn't feel or see the work that goes on behind the scenes. — Tom Ford

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

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

There is no such thing as 'on the way out' as long as you are still doing something interesting and good; you're in the business because you're breathing. — Louis Armstrong

I'm rather old-fashioned about this video business. It's all relatively new. We really don't do videos, Fleetwood Mac. We've only done two. — Christine McVie

I am especially grateful that I have been able to keep my own style over the decades, in spite of the many changes that have taken place in the world of fashion and in its business. — Valentino Garavani

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

I think that fashion has become such a big business and with globalization we are on new territory at this point. We are not just designing for a country we are designing for a world now. — Anna Sui

I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side. — Tommy Hilfiger

There is also a schedule to fashion - the deadline is always set. So maybe the fashion business is a good business for me in that way because I'm basically lazy, man. — 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

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 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

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

You see, you just don't know I'm here to give you my heart And you want some fashion show — Jim Carroll

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

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

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

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

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

Trendy is the last stage before tacky. — Karl Lagerfeld

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More Fashion World Quotes

Many of the customers here are traveling all over the world so they need multiple types of clothes. That's one thing about Urban Zen - it is seasonless and it is timeless. So it's not about the fashion of a moment saying, "I have to have it now." It's something that you become a part of...sort of like a sari. — Donna Karan

I don’t like the collusion between high fashion design and high street. You have to know where you stand. I belong to luxury fashion. That’s what I’ve always felt and embraced. I like the best quality, the best fabrics and the most creative field in fashion. I will stay consistent. I belong to this world. — Hedi Slimane

We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful: those in command of immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own image. — Nelson Mandela

I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen. — Eddie Redmayne

Ralph Lauren has always stood for providing quality products, creating worlds and inviting people to take part in our dream. We were the innovators of lifestyle advertisements that tell a story and the first to create stores that encourage customers to participate in that lifestyle. — Ralph Lauren

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

In the future, fast-fashion retailers might change their philosophy toward real efforts to create a world of their own. One can only hope. — Hedi Slimane

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

no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labor so to bring into the world. — Alice Walker

O what pride, conforming to the world and following its fashions! Warn them, warn them for me, while you have strength and time and be faithful to your duty. — Francis Asbury

The world isn't purposeful. It isn't ruled by reason. The world wants to play. Fashion queens have always aroused more interest than future generations and their fate. — Kurt Tucholsky

The first rule that a geisha is taught, at the age of nine, is to be charming to other women...Every girl in the world should have geisha training. — Diana Vreeland

The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you. — Coco Chanel

Everything I know, see or hear, every part of my life is transformed into dresses. They are my daydreams, but they have passed from dreamland into the world of everyday items to wear. — Christian Dior

Production for the sake of production - the obsession with the rate of growth, whether in the capitalist market or in planned economies - leads to monstrous absurdities. The only acceptable finality of human activity is the production of a subjectivity that is auto-enriching its relation to the world in a continuous fashion. — Felix Guattari

Walk like you have three men walking behind you. — Oscar de la Renta

Money values do not simply mirror the state of affairs in the real world; valuation is a positive act that makes an impact on the course of events. Monetary and real phenomena are connected in a reflexive fashion; that is, they influence each other mutually. The reflexive relationship manifests itself most clearly in the use and abuse of credit. — George Soros

God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system. — Immanuel Kant

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

Disco is a major influence in the world of fashion. It is a dynamic factor in contemporary advertising. It is a message from every consumer that there has been a rediscovery of America's greatest by-product: fun. — Neil Bogart

In most cases I start off with a sketch. But I'm also thinking about real images: out of National Geographic, out of fashion magazines, out of The Economist, out of Time. I'm making a sketch, but I'm using the existing images that have been put out in the world. — Wangechi Mutu

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. — Coco Chanel

And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time. — Lady Gaga

Fashion is fun, ridiculously fun. But it's base and it's wrong. You're not doing anything good for the world. You're just saying, 'Buy it, buy it, buy it. — Waris Dirie

Sometimes I get it right and I sometimes I get it wrong. But fashion is all about having fun. I think fashion has been hijacked by the fashion industry creating rules on what one should wear and I feel like breaking the mold and seeing that the world won’t crumble. — Helena Bonham Carter

We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions. No woman can be well dressed unless she is comfortable in what she is wearing. — Bill Blass

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