The world of fashion can be intimidating with all of its glamorous models, and expensive brands.
But, style and fashion is really a very basic and necessary concept. Whether or not you pay attention to the New York Time’s Style section you still have to dress yourself every morning, and the way you go about this communicates a lot.
In the spirit of a more inclusiveness, here are some of the best quotes about fashion, style, and clothing.
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“Fashion is the armor to survive the reality of everyday life. - Bill Cunningham
“I don’t do fashion. I am fashion. - Coco Chanel
“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. - Orson Welles
“At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, ‘completes what nature left unfinished.’- Sophia Loren
“1. Find your own style and have the courage to stick to it.
2. Choose your clothes for your way of life.
3. Make your wardrobe as versatile as an actress. It should be able to play many roles.
4. Find your happiest colours – the ones that make you feel good.
5. Care for your clothes, like the good friends they are! - Joan Crawford
“You either know fashion or you don’t. - Anna Wintour
“Fashion is instant language. - Miuccia Prada
“Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well. - Vivienne Westwood
“The better you dress, the worse you can behave. - Unknown
“Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds. - Coco Chanel
“When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today.’ - Caitlin Moran
“Everyday is a fashion show and the world is your runway. - Coco Chanel
“Dressing well is a form of good manners. - Tom Ford
“What a strange power there is in clothing. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
“I say dress to please yourself. Listen to your inner muse and take a chance. Wear something that says ‘Here I am!’ today. - Iris Apfel
“Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercouse. - Sir Francis Bacon
“You can never be overdressed or overeducated. - Oscar Wilde
“Real style is never right or wrong. It’s a matter of being yourself on purpose. - G. Bruce Boyer
“Life’s too short to wear boring clothes. - Unknown
“When you don’t dress like everybody else, you don’t have to think like everybody else. - Iris Apfel
“It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable. - L.M. Montgomery
“If it doesn’t fit, it’s ugly anyway. - Unknown
“Clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them. - Marc Jacobs
“One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. - Oscar Wilde
“Fashion somehow, for me, is purely and happily irrational. - Hedi Slimane
“Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today. - Mary Quant
“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 is a lifestyle, it’s a choice,it’s a freedom of expression.You have to live it, you have to love it. You have to breathe it. Life’s all about love and glamour. - Christina Aguilera
“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. - Diana Vreeland
“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
“People will stare. Make it worth their while. - Harry Winston
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. - Marilyn Monroe
“While clothes may not make the woman, they certainly have a strong effect on her self-confidence — which, I believe, does make the woman. - Mary Kay Ashe
“I like my money right where I can see it: hanging in my closet. - Carrie Bradshaw
“One is never over-dressed or under dressed with a Little Black Dress. - Karl Lagerfeld
“To me, clothing is a form of self-expression – there are hints about who you are in what you wear. - Marc Jacobs
“I’m just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time. - Lady Gaga
“I don’t believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day. - Stephanie Perkins
“Forget the rules. If you like it, wear it. - Unknown
“Fashion is about dreaming and making other people dream. - Donatella Versace
“When in doubt, wear red. - Bill Blass
“Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment. - Alexander McQueen
“Fashion wasn’t what you wore someplace anymore. It was the whole reason for going. - Andy Warhol
“Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one’s own, it is always 20 times better. - Margaret Oliphant
“I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear. - Katherine Hepburn
“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
“Know first who you are, then adorn yourself accordingly. - Epictetus
“It’s a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I’d be a drag queen. - Dolly Parton
“Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world. - Marilyn Monroe
“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
“Clothes are about manipulations: how I feel, how I want to feel and how I want others to feel about me. - Alexa Chung
“Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive. - Karl Lagerfeld
“If I think about it too much, I can’t get dressed. - Daphne Guinness
“Do well. Live well. And dress really well. - Unknown
“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
“My passion for fashion borders on insanity. - Isabella Blow
“Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad. - Lady Gaga
“Shoes transform your body language and attitude. They lift you physically and emotionally. - Christian Louboutin
“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
“Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping. - Oscar Wilde
“You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur. - Karl Lagerfeld
“It’s not what you’re wearing, it’s the way you wear it. - Pharrell Williams
“Clothes as text, clothes as narration, clothes as a story. Clothes as the story of our lives. And if you were to gather all the clothes you have ever owned in all your life, each baby shoe and winter coat and wedding dress, you would have your autobiography. - Linda Grant
“If I’m going dancing, then I wear the highest heels with the shortest dress. - Kate Moss
“I’ll stop wearing black when they make a darker color. - Wednesday Addams
“Life is short. Buy the shoes. - Unknown
“The best fashion show is definitely on the street. Always has been, and always will be. - Bill Cunningham
“I’m thinking balls are to men, what purses are to women. It’s just a little bag but we’d feel naked in public without it. - Carrie Bradshaw
“Fashion breaks my heart. - Kanye West
“Dress like you are going to see your ex today. - Unknown
“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
“Where’s the man that could ease a heart like a satin gown? - Dorothy Parker
“The only time a woman has a true orgasm is when she is shopping. - Joan Rivers
“Fashion is not just beauty, it’s about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong. - Adriana Lima
“Fashion is so close in revealing a person’s inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It’s really too close to the quick of the soul. - Stella Bloom
“High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead. - Christopher Morley
“The best fashion advice I’d say would be just to do what makes you comfortable and what makes you feel cute, and that’s how you’re gonna look your best ‘cause when you feel your best, everybody else can feel it, too. - Ariana Grande
