Clothing Style Quotes

• 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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• Dressing well is a form of good manners.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Dressing Up, Monday Morning

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• Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Drinking, Giving, Feelings

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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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• It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules.

  Zac Posen

  Fashion, Eras, New Era

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• The difference between style and fashion is quality.

  Giorgio Armani

  Fashion, Differences, Style

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• To me, clothing is a form of self-expression - there are hints about who you are in what you wear.

  Marc Jacobs

  Fashion, Self, Expression

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• You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans - it's up to you.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Jeans, World, Up To You

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

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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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• Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

  Quentin Crisp

  Sad, Fashion, Being Yourself

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• 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, Life Changing, Sky

  "Chanel : A Woman of Her Own" by Axel Madsen, (p. 124), 1991.

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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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• 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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• Fashion is in the sky, in the street.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Sky, Dresses

  "Chanel : A Woman of Her Own" by Axel Madsen, (p. 124), 1991.

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• Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak.

  Rachel Zoe

  Inspiring, Fashion, Attitude

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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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• It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules. It's all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Style, Together

  Interview with Amy Odell, www.thecut.com. February 5, 2009.

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  I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants.

  Whitney Houston

  Inspiring, Fashion, Women

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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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• Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Dresses, Haute Couture

  "Chanel : A Woman of Her Own" by Axel Madsen, (p. 124), 1991.

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• Never wear anything that panics the cat.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Fun, Cat, Animal

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.12, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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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• I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fashion, Clothes, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.48, Harvard University Press

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• Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Luxury, Style

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• Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something.

  James Laver

  Mean, Clothes, Frivolity

  James Laver (1969). “Modesty in Dress: An Inquiry Into the Fundamentals of Fashion”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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