These famous fashion quotes reveal a new layer that lies beneath the surface. It's not just about fashion. It's about wearing your statement on your sleeve.
- Yves Saint Laurent
Fashions fade, style is eternal. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it. - Coco Chanel
I don't do fashion, I am fashion. - Lord Chesterfield
When a person is in fashion, all they do is right. - Bill Blass
Style is primarily a matter of instinct. - Anthony Burgess
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. - Christian Dior
Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest. - Coco Chanel
I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can't accept that it should originate there. - Yves Saint Laurent
We must never confuse elegance with snobbery. - Yves Saint Laurent
Dressing is a way of life. - Giorgio Armani
The difference between style and fashion is quality. - Elsa Schiaparelli
In difficult times fashion is always outrageous. - Oleg Cassini
Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of the future, and should never be static. - Quentin Crisp
Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are. - Lord Chesterfield
If you are not in fashion, you are nobody. - Coco Chanel
Fashion is architecture. It is a matter of proportions. - Coco Chanel
Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. - Yves Saint Laurent
Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it. - Giorgio Armani
I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet. - Yves Saint Laurent
I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity -- all I hope for in my clothes. - Geoffrey Chaucer
There's never a new fashion but it's old. - George Bernard Shaw
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. - William Shakespeare
What a deformed thief this fashion is. - Giorgio Armani
The goal I seek is to have people refine their style through my clothing without having them become victims of fashion. - Ralph Lauren
I don't design clothes. I design dreams. - Coco Chanel
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable. - Edith Head
A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes. - Elsa Schiaparelli
Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women. - Bill Blass
When in doubt, wear red. - Stendal
Only great minds can afford a simple style. - Jean-Paul Gaultier
Elegance is a question of personality, more than one's clothing. - Coco Chanel
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.
