Inspirational Quotes on Fashion
Inspirational Quotes on Fashion. From the greatest fashion designers to legendary models and stylists, get inspired by these 99 quote-worthy, inspiring words of wisdom to live by.
Every time we need motivation, these quotes push us to the limit where we dig up more and work even harder to get those things we really want in our lives.
99 inspirational quotes of fashion that will never go out of style:
1. “Fashion should be a form of escapism and not a form of imprisonment.” – Alexander McQueen
2. “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
3. “Clothes are like a good meal, a good movie, great pieces of music.” – Michael Kors
4. “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 you live.” – Gianni Versace
5. “Conformity is the only real fashion crime. To not dress like yourself and to sublimate your spirit to some kind of group identity is succumbing to fashion fascism.” – Simon Doonan
6. “Whoever said that money can’t buy happiness, simply didn’t know where to go shopping.” – Bo Derek
7. “Fashion has to reflect who you are, what you feel at the moment and where you’re going.” – Pharrell Williams
8. “I’m a very down-to-earth person, but it is my job to make that earth more pleasant.” – Karl Lagerfeld
9. “One is never over-dressed or under-dressed with a Little Black Dress.” —Karl Lagerfeld
10. “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
11. “I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.” —Vera Wang
12. “Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time, with all the events. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes. You can see and feel everything in clothes.” —Diana Vreeland
13. “I think there is beauty in everything. What ‘normal’ people perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.”—Alexander McQueen
14. “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
15. “I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.” —Bette Midler
16. “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
17. “I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can’t possess radiance, you can only admire it.”– Elizabeth Taylor
18. “You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it.” —Edith Head
19. “I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect, they are much more interesting.” —Marc Jacobs
20. “Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.” —Rachel Zoe
21. “We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.” —Yves Saint Laurent
22. “Playing dress-up begins at age five and never truly ends.” —Kate Spade
23.”I don’t do fashion. I am fashion.” —Coco Chanel
24. “Being well dressed hasn’t much to do with having good clothes. It’s a question of good balance and good common sense.” —Oscar de la Renta
25. “Style is something each of us already has, all we need to do is find it.” —Diane von Furstenberg
26. “Fashion is the armor to survive the reality of everyday life.” —Bill Cunningham
27. “When in doubt, wear red.” —Bill Blass
28. “Anyone can get dressed up and glamorous, but it is how people dress in their days off that are the most intriguing.” —Alexander Wang
29. “In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous.” —Elsa Schiaparelli
30. “Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.” —Vivienne Westwood
31. “How can you live the high life if you do not wear the high heels?” —Sonia Rykiel
32. “Fashion is what you’re offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose.” —Lauren Hutton
33. “You gotta have style. It helps you get down the stairs. It helps you get up in the morning. It’s a way of life. Without it, you’re nobody. I’m not talking about lots of clothes.” —Diana Vreeland
34. “Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves, and of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys, they’d just walk around naked at all times.” —Betsey Johnson
35. “Trendy is the last stage before tacky.” —Karl Lagerfeld
36. “Elegance is elimination.” —Cristóbal Balenciaga
37. “Style is the only thing you can’t buy. It’s not in a shopping bag, a label, or a price tag. It’s something reflected from our soul to the outside world—an emotion.”—Alber Elbaz
38. “Fashion is like eating, you shouldn’t stick to the same menu.” —Kenzo Takada
39. “We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.” —Yves Saint Laurent
40. “The hardest thing in fashion is not to be known for a logo, but to be known for a silhouette.” —Giambattista Valli
41.”Elegance is not standing out, but being remembered.” —Giorgio Armani
42. “We have this saying, Christy and I. We don’t wake up for less than $10,000 a day.” —Linda Evangelista
43. “I make clothes, women make fashion.” —Azzedine Alaïa
44. “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
45. “What’s my style is not your style, and I don’t see how you can define it. It’s something that expresses who you are in your own way.” —Iris Apfel
45. “Whoever said that money can’t buy happiness, simply didn’t know where to go shopping.” —Bo Derek
46. “The best things in life are free. The second best are very expensive.” —Coco Chanel
47. “Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.” ―Karl Lagerfeld
48. “The joy of dressing is an art.” —John Galliano
49. “Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who’s wearing it.” —Yves Saint Laurent
50. “I like my money right where I can see it…hanging in my closet.” —Carrie Bradshaw
51. “You either know fashion or you don’t.” – Anna Wintour
52. “Fashion is about dressing according to what’s fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.” —Oscar de la Renta
53. “I don’t design clothes. I design dreams.” —Ralph Lauren
54. “Fashions fade, style is eternal.” —Yves Saint Laurent
55. “Clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them.” —Marc Jacobs
56. “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
57. “People will stare. Make it worth their while.” —Harry Winston
58. “Shoes transform your body language and attitude. They lift you physically and emotionally.” —Christian Louboutin
59. “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” —Coco Chanel
60. “Always dress like you’re going to see your worst enemy.” – Kimora Lee
61. “Fashion is not necessarily about labels. It’s not about brands. It’s about something else that comes from within you.” – Ralph Lauren
62. “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.” – Coco Chanel
63. “When you go to a nice restaurant, you want to be relaxed and have a drink and everything, you want to look at people who look well. You don’t want to look at some slob with an open shirt and a hairy chest—at least I don’t.” – Iris Apfel
64. ”What you wear is such an expression of who you are. That’s like someone picking out who I’m going to date!” – Diane Kruger
65. “When I first moved to New York, and I was totally broke, sometimes I would buy Vogue instead of dinner. I felt it fed me more.” – Carrie Bradshaw
66. “I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.” – Diana Vreeland
67. “We don’t need fashion to survive, we just desire it so much.” – Marc Jacobs
68. “She can beat me, but she cannot beat my outfit.” – Rihanna
69. “In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.” – Christian Dior
70. “I think that because I’m overweight, [my] fantasy was lightness. So I project my fantasy to the clothes, and now all I do is light, light clothes because it’s the one thing I don’t have. That is why I’m too afraid to lose weight because then I might make heavy clothes.” – Alber Elbaz
71. “Fashion is the armor to survive the reality of everyday life.” – Bill Cunningham
72. “It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion.” – Yves Saint Laurent
73. “When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: Don’t get carried away—it’s only dresses.” – Karl Lagerfeld
74. “What’s becoming very obvious to me is that fashion is art.” – Lupita Nyong’o
75. “I know what women look good in. I don’t think the rules ever change.” – Michael Kors
76. “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
77. “When you don’t dress like everybody else, you don’t have to think like everybody else.” –Iris Apfel
78. “Buy less, choose well.” – Vivienne Westwood
79. “Style is very personal. It has nothing to do with fashion. Fashion is over quickly. Style is forever.” – Ralph Lauren
80. “I’m just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.” – Lady Gaga
81. “If I can have any impact, I want women to feel good about themselves and have fun with fashion.” – Michelle Obama
82. “Real style is never right or wrong. It’s a matter of being yourself on purpose.” – G. Bruce Boyer
83. “Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.” – Marilyn Monroe
84. “A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.” – Coco Chanel
85. “Style; all who have it have one thing: originality.” – Diana Vreeland
86. “I’ll stop wearing black when they make a darker color.” – Wednesday Addams
87. “Style is primarily a matter of instinct.” – Bill Blass
88. “Women who wear black lead colorful lives.” – Neiman Marcus
89. “I feel that flip-flops are the downfall of many relationships. It’s like, first it’s the flip-flops, and then it’s the sweatpants… it’s the gateway drug to no sex.” – Lady Gaga
90. “Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.” – Karl Lagerfeld
91. “I am anti-pants.” – Lena Dunham
92. “When you don’t feel to dress means that you are depressed. You need a fashion shower.” – Anna Dello Russo
93. “Fashion is all about happiness. It’s fun. It’s important. But it’s not medicine.” – Donatella Versace
94. “I like Cinderella; she has a good work ethic, and she likes shoes.” – Amy Adams
95. “Fashion wasn’t what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.” – Andy Warhol
96. “I’ve always thought of accessories as the exclamation point of a woman’s outfit.” – Michael Kors
97. “Make it simple, but significant.” – Don Draper
98. “Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.” – Sir Francis Bacon
99. “A great dress can make you remember what is beautiful about life.” – Rachel Roy
Ladies, get inspired. Try to do it by yourself, and if you can’t, then we hope that by reading these inspiring quotes you will be helped for sure. And remember! Fashion is an aesthetic expression, at a particular period and place and in a specific context, of clothing, footwear, lifestyle, accessories, makeup, hairstyle, and body proportions. Stay classy, stay stylish, and always be happy in your everyday get-up.