Clothes And Fashion Quotes

• I love clothes and fashion more than music

  Roberto Cavalli

  Fashion, Clothes

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• Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Reality, Clothes

  Twitter post from Oct 15, 2012

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• Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fashion, Teenage, Laughing

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Economy'.

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• Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Greatness, Perfection

  "Harper's Bazaar" Magazine, 1923.

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• 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

  Funny, Girl, Fashion

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• How can you live the high life if you do not wear the high heels?

  Sonia Rykiel

  Fashion, High Heels, Shoes

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• Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

  Gore Vidal

  Inspirational, Fashion, Hair

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Feb 28, 2011

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• 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

  Fashion, Inspirational Life, Rocks

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  Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Beauty, Fashion

  Epictetus (1758). “All the Works of Epictetus: Which are Now Extant; Consisting of His Discourses, Preserved by Arrian, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.227

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• Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us.

  Virginia Woolf

  Fashion, Views, Clothes

  Virginia Woolf (1995). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.92, Wordsworth Editions

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• Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Fashion, Men, Clothes

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

  Quoted in More Maxims of Mark, ed. Merle Johnson (1927)

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• We all need a splash of bad taste. No taste is what I am against.

  Diana Vreeland

  Fashion, Needs, Taste

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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• One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Clothes You Wear, Black

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• You can do terrible things when you don't know who you are.

  Adam Rex

  Sad, Fashion, Being Yourself

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• Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans — it’s up to you.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Women, Jeans

  "Karl Lagerfeld's Fashion Therapy". Harper's Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 13, 2009.

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• 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

  Inspirational, Fashion, Nice

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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• A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Naked, Well Dressed

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• When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Fashion, Clothes, Persons

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• The goal I seek is to have people refine their style through my clothing without having them become victims of fashion.

  Giorgio Armani

  Fashion, Clothes, People

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• Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.

  Edna Woolman Chase

  Fashion, Style, Appearance

  Edna Woolman Chase, Ilka Chase (1954). “Always in Vogue”

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• The dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress.

  Hubert de Givenchy

  Fashion, Dresses, Body

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• It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Fashion, Clothes, Easier

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “THE TALES OF AVONLEA - Complete Collection: 16 Novels & 27 Short Stories (Including Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Prince Edward Island, The Story Girl & Emily Starr Trilogy)”, p.187, e-artnow

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• People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.

  Ralph Lauren

  Dream, Fashion, Money

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• I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.

  Stephanie Perkins

  Fashion, Believe, Life Is Too Short

  Stephanie Perkins (2014). “Lola and the Boy Next Door”, p.9, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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