Great Fashion Quotes

• It's funny, my girlfriends think that because I am married to a fashion designer, I get all these great tips and hints about great fashion, but it's not like that at all. He never tells me what to wear.

  Lori Loughlin

  Fashion, Girlfriend, Thinking

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• I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fashion, Sex, Blue Dress

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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, Being Yourself, Blue Dress

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.

  Kate Moss

  Fashion, Size Zero, Taste

  "Kate Moss's motto gives comfort to 'pro-anorexic' community" by Alexandra Topping, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2009.

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• A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

  Sophia Loren

  Love, Fashion, Women

  "Good Morning, America" on ABC TV, en.wikiquote.org. August 10, 1979.

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• We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Inspirational, Fashion, Icons

  Yves Saint Laurent (1983). “Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume”, p.21, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fashion, Women, Clothes You Wear

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• I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

  Ralph Lauren

  Dream, Fashion, Designer Clothes

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 19 Apr. 1986

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• Clothes are like a good meal, a good movie, great pieces of music.

  Michael Kors

  Fashion, Clothes, Good Movie

  Twitter post from Jan 8, 2013

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• Clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them.

  Marc Jacobs

  Fashion, Mean, Icons

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  The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

  Diana Vreeland

  Fashion, Real, Life Changing

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• Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Fashion, Divorce, Men

  "Head Over Heels for Manolo Blahnik" by Lisa Armstrong, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 23, 2010.

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• A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.

  Dorothy Parker

  Fashion, Nice, Inspiration

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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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• Fashion is what you're offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose.

  Lauren Hutton

  Inspirational, Fashion, Years

  "25 of the Best Fashion Quotes of All Time" by Lauren Hutton, Krystin Arneson, Megan Gustashaw, Glamour, 2011.

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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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• People will stare. Make it worth their while.

  Harry Winston

  Beauty, Fashion, Love Yourself

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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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• Elegance is not standing out, but being remembered.

  Giorgio Armani

  Fashion, Icons, Elegance

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  Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.

  Sophia Loren

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

  "The Subtlety of Emotions". Book by Aaron Ben-Ze'ev, 2001.

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• Only great minds can afford a simple style.

  Stendhal

  Fashion, Simple, Simplicity

  Stendhal (1967). “On Love”

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  A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to prove you're a lady.

  Edith Head

  Fashion, Eyebrows, Icons

  EDITH HEAD (1959). “The Dress Doctor”

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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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• Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

  Jean Cocteau

  Fashion, Simple, Style

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• Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are.

  Gianni Versace

  Fashion, Being Yourself, Style

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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