In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous. — Elsa Schiaparelli
Fashion is an expression of the times. Elegance is something else again. — Horst P. Horst
The difference between style and fashion is quality. — Giorgio Armani
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
Fashion is my passion, and I respect the creativity that you find in its different levels. — Max Azria
Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. — Coco Chanel
Paris dictates fashion to the whole world. — Maria Callas
An appreciation for high fashion does not preclude possession of common sense. — Tasha Alexander
Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess. — Edna W. Chase
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
Fashion is what you're offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose. — Lauren Hutton
Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today. — Mary Quant
Fashions fade, but style is eternal. — Yves SaintLaurent
Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality. — Karl Lagerfeld
Fashion is transient, trends come and go. I believe in style, not fashion. — Ralph Lauren
Style of the future is the convergence of function and fashion. — Vanna Bonta
The latest fashion… is absolutely necessary for a painting. It’s what matters most. — Edouard Manet
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. — Oscar Wilde
Fashion is about dreaming and making other people dream. — Donatella Versace
High Fashion Image Quotes
To wear dreams on one's feet is to begin to give reality to one's dreams. — Roger Vivier
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
What Is Fashion 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
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
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
Knowing when to walk away is wisdom. Being able to is courage. Walking away, with your head held high is dignity.
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 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
For me, what I do is an artistic expression which is channeled through me. Fashion is just the medium. — Alexander McQueen
Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
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
To me, clothing is a form of self-expression - there are hints about who you are in what you wear. — Marc Jacobs
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
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
Fashion Wear 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
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
Style is wearing an evening dress to McDonald's, wearing heels to play football. It is personality, confidence and seduction. — John Galliano
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.
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
One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress. — Karl Lagerfeld
My daughter Delphine, she’s working at Dior. But she wears Celine. — Bernard Arnault
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.
If your wearing lingerie that makes you feel glamorous, you're halfway thereto turning heads. — Elle Macpherson
How can you live the high life if you do not wear the high heels? — Sonia Rykiel
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
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
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
Men - the colour of their tie is the most difficult decision they have to make every day. — Nicola Sturgeon
Keep your head and standards high!
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
The fashion industry isn't merely content to encase my meaty flanks in skintight denim. Oh, no! That denim also has to be white, a color that attracts ketchup, wine, garlic aioli, and any other foodstuffs I might otherwise be able to enjoy if I wasn't wearing ridiculously tight pants. — Diablo Cody
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
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
Real elegance is everywhere, especially in the things that don't show. — Christian Dior
You can reach timelessness if you look for the essence of things and not the appearance. The appearance is transitory — the appearance is fashion, the appearance is trendiness — but the essence is timeless. — Massimo Vignelli
Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful. — Sophia Loren
Elegance is the only beauty that never fades. — Audrey Hepburn
I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men. — Marlene Dietrich
Simplicity, good taste and grooming are the three fundamentals of good dressing and these do not cost money. — Christian Dior
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
Fashion Luxury Quotes
Elegance is a question of personality, more than one's clothing. — Jean Paul Gaultier
I'm interested in longevity, timelessness, style - not fashion. — Ralph Lauren
I only like luxury fashion. You have to decide where you stand. I like well-made, authentic clothes, well-crafted tailoring. I also like the dream and fantasy of luxury, the exception and rarity of it. I have no interest at all in fast retail. It is ambiguous. — Hedi Slimane
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
We've been sold a concept of joy through advertising. It was somehow sold to us through a Gucci bag or something. — Kanye West
I have always been drawn to designing fashions that are rebellious, like black leather jackets on suburban kinds, a corset dress, punk, blue jeans. I love that. Fashion changes all the time, and what is considered extreme or elegant or luxurious (or not luxurious) is changing all the time. — Jean Paul Gaultier
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man. — Stendhal
Fish is held out to be one of the greatest luxuries of the table and not only necessary, but even indispensable at all dinners where there is any pretence of excellence or fashion. — Isabella Beeton
The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse -- as a luxury befitting a young man. — Henri B. Stendhal
Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation, If, in ready-to-wear, a garment is manufactured according to standard sizes, the haute couture garment adapts to any imperfection in order to eliminate it. — Yves Saint Laurent
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. — Coco Chanel
Fashion is in the sky, in the street. — Coco Chanel
I have a very haute couture way of working. — John Galliano
For me, haute couture is a necessity. I never would have done this job were it not for haute couture. It is a comfort, a security. I almost feel it is our duty to continue. Haute couture is France. We have to keep all the skills and craftmanship alive. — Christian Lacroix
I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture. — Valentino Garavani
I learned to work with my mother, who had an haute-couture business. — Gianni Versace
Cinema is haute couture or, if that's a little too ambitious, at least it should approach that standard. Pathe Plus is just part of the business. We have to improve all our cinemas. In France, we're not looking to open many more screens, but rather to raise the standards of our current cinemas. — Jerome Seydoux
Because I worked in fashion, I know that I like fashion. Haute couture is a form of art that I can appreciate. I'm definitely not someone who wakes up every day and thinks about what I'm going to wear, but on the red carpet, it's reflective of the mood I'm in, or the movie I'm going to represent. — Diane Kruger
Even during the golden age of fashion, you had haute couture houses where the designers didn't have money. — Olivier Theyskens
Great Fashion Quotes
Shoes transform your body language and attitude. They lift you physically and emotionally. — Christian Louboutin
Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are. — Gianni Versace
The dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress. — Hubert de Givenchy
The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy. — Yves Saint Laurent
Maybe it makes me old-fashioned, but investing to me is about owning great companies for many, many years. — Francois Rochon
Decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live. — Gianni Versace
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
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
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
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
Fashion is only complete when it is worn by ordinary people who exist now, managing their lives, loving and grieving. — Yohji Yamamoto
I’m definitely a girly-girl and I love playing with fashion, but at the same time I will go skydiving with you tomorrow. — Shay Mitchell
Will you love me in December as you do in May,
Will you love me in the good old fashioned way?
When my hair has all turned gray,
Will you kiss me then and say,
That you love me in December as you do in May? — Jimmy Walker
Fashion World Quotes
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
Everyday is a fashion show and the world is the runway — Coco Chanel
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
I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world. — Bette Midler
Life is a fashion show, the world is your runway. — Marc Jacobs
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
Fashion Today Quotes
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
I want women to really look like women from today. It's not from the past and not from the future, because I don't know what happens in the future. It is the woman of today (who) I think is a seductive woman. — Carolina Herrera
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
I'm ghetto chic, I'm where the hood and high fashion meet — Teyana
I hate the terminology of "costume" because my clothes are not costumes at all. I think they're high fashion, avant-garde, and more couture, definitely, and yes, some of my pieces are not particularly wearable, but I wouldn't say they're costumes, I'd say they're more couture. — Christian Siriano
I love fashion from the 1930s and '40s - shoulder pads, high waists, things with structure. That is classy for me. Andrea Riseborough from the Madonna movie 'W.E.' had an amazing wardrobe. — Eva Green
But here’s the thing: Appropriation occurs when a style leads to racist generalizations or stereotypes where it originated, but is deemed as high fashion, cool, or funny when the privileged take it for themselves. Appropriation occurs when the appropriator is not aware of the deep significance of the culture that they are partaking in. — Amandla Stenberg
I like to go to places with my high-fashion things where there are a lot of cameras. So I can just go there and be like, 'Yep, yep, I'm looking so sick.' But in my regular life, I put on clothes that I can climb trees in. — Willow Smith
I wear a lot of black, knitwear, skinny jeans and very high heels. My mum used to work for a fashion designer making knitwear, so she knits me lots of chunky scarves, hats and gloves, which I love. — Katie McGrath
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
When I moved to New York, obviously I work with a lot of high fashion brands and I get to wear insane, totally crazy bags and all this crazy stuff but still, I'll always go back to my original sense of style. — Gigi Hadid
I'm gonna do clothes, but stuff that kids can afford. I want to get into the high fashion world very soon, but the stuff I want to start out with is the small stuff, for the kids, that anybody can afford the Nikes, or the Jordans, Or let's say they can't afford the big brand name clothes, so I would make a lower end line but still high-quality. — Chris Brown
Women's fashion is a subtle form of bondage. It's men's way of binding them. We put them in these tight, high-heeled shoes, we make them wear these tight clothes and we say they look sexy. But they're actually tied up. — David Duchovny
Working with Moschino, a real high fashion Italian brand, maybe I'm under tighter deadlines, but sometimes under tight deadlines you do your best work. — Jeremy Scott
When I was in high school the worst thing you could ever get was VD. Talk about the sniffles! I just want to meet an old-fashioned girl with gonorrhea. — Bill Maher
I never wanted to get into high end in Colombia - the percentage of people who can afford it is very small, and they can shop abroad anyway. It's just not what I had in mind. I wanted to bring international fashion to as many people here as possible, who don't usually get exposed to such styles. — Esteban Cortazar
When it comes to fashion or any high art, you have to have a combination of delicacy, along with taste. — Erykah Badu
All brands, whether high-ticket luxury ones such as Cartier or Rolls-Royce or 'masstige' ones with luxe-y overtones but altogether more affordable, all want to grow. Even brands that may have started in a modestly niche design and lifestyle fashion can find themselves under pressure to go global or to sell out at the top. — Peter York
Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly. — Cecil Beaton
I didn't do well in high school, but I took photography, and I loved being able to capture moments. It led to more and more photography, and fashion was the angle into photography for me. It was incredible to see photographs by Irving Penn or Helmut Newton. I was really intrigued by that, and that's what led me to New York City. — Steven Sebring
I am more vintage than I am high fashion. — Katerina Graham
Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief, And that is Sculpture. This vast ball, the Earth, Was moulded out of clay, and baked in fire; Men, women, and all animals that breathe Are statues, and not paintings. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I have always loved fashion because it's a great way to express your mood. And I'm definitely a shoe lover. The right pair of shoes can change the feel of an outfit, and even change how a woman feels about herself. A woman can wear confidence on her feet with a high stiletto, or slip into weekend comfort with a soft ballet flat. — Fergie
I like individuality in fashion - it annoys me when celebrities put on a bodycon dress and a pair of high heels and suddenly they are 'style icons.' — Georgie Henley
I'm a real Londoner. We have very grey weather in London, and I think it encourages a very eclectic and crazy fashion sense. I mix high-street stuff with more high-end fashion and vintage. — Emma Watson
I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason -- as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I personally love sportswear, and love using it in high fashion. — Stella McCartney
Votes in federal elections are cast and counted in a highly decentralized and variable fashion, with no uniform ballots and few national standards. — Thomas E. Mann
I got to the point where I was sick of fashion again, like I was at the end of high school. — Stephen Sprouse
I always wanted to be a fashion designer and I learned costume illustration in high school. That was an incredible high school. It was more like a college. I'm moving more in that direction, just kind of merchandising my name. — Diana Ross
For me, being a rap fan and the nostalgia of me being a kid, rappers and guys on the street told me everything to wear. That was it. I didn't necessarily read too many fashion books. Then it got competitive in junior high school. It was moreso about, "You don't got these." Everybody could be fresh, but you don't got these. — Pusha T
Even if you're starting from scratch and buying a new wardrobe, preppy clothes are very fairly priced compared to high fashion. They're very easy to absorb into your wardrobe. You probably already have stuff you can wear and there's a safety factor. You're dressed for success, in a way, if you look like you grew up with success. — Lisa Birnbach
Fashion is about owning whatever you're wearing, regardless of if it's a high fashion statement or not. — Darren Criss
I just like streetwear. I've always been a fan of Saint Laurent because I like how their jeans fit on me, but as far as high fashion, I don't wear too much high fashion. — Tyga
I've always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don't have to think about it to know it's delicious. — Alber Elbaz
Italy is famous for fashion, food, Ferrari, and furniture - furniture was a segment where the companies in the high end are all small. — Luca Cordero di Montezemolo
High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly. — Barbara Kingsolver
We've had all the ebbs and flows of any real career. Trust me. We've been at the highest highs and pretty low lows. But that said, we always stay true to who we were. We didn't jump on fads and fashions. — Jon Bon Jovi
Cole Haan is like high fashion Nike, so you feel like you're wearing Nike shoes, but you're wearing heels. Every time I'm on a red carpet, I always either wear Cole Haan or Stuart Weitzman. You end up having to walk around all night in these heels and you want to be comfortable and not look like you're in pain. It definitely shows in pictures. — Nina Dobrev
I always design my own hats to complete my fashion thought....I like them slightly mad, like this huge black poppy. Right now I lift the bosom high on coats and dresses...I am using so many high curved belts. — Oscar de la Renta
I hate high fashion. I hate that we reward people for being genetic freaks. You hear the guys announcing the runway shows saying, 'A pretty face is your best asset this season.' And what? Ugly girls had a free ride last year? — Janeane Garofalo
Everybody's talking about the new democratic world and whether high fashion is relevant. But without high there is no low. I don't like to intellectualize. I've always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don't have to think about it to know it's delicious. — Alber Elbaz
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