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Sometimes getting dressed can feel like going into battle. At times like those, it's helpful to look to fashion icons for advice. We rounded up the very best fashion quotes, including wisdom and one-liners from the greatest designers, editors, models, and actresses of our time. Here, discover 57 fashion quotes to dress by.
"Women who wear black have colorful lives."
—Neiman Marcus
"Fashion is the part of the daily air and it changes all the time, with all events. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes. You can see and feel everything in clothes."
—Diana Vreeland
"When in doubt, wear red."
—Bill Blass
"You either know fashion or you don’t."
—Anna Wintour
"My fashion is about the urban woman in the year 3000. I think about obscure, weird things and try to create a world around them." —Lady Gaga
"I love black because it affirms, designs, and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke."
—Yves Saint Laurent
"You can wear black at any time. You can wear it at any age. You may wear it for almost any occasion."
—Christian Dior
"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
"Never, ever confuse what happens on a runway with fashion. A runway is spectacle. It's only fashion when a woman puts it on. Being well dressed hasn't much to do with having good clothes. It's a question of good balance and good common sense."
—Oscar de la Renta
"When you don’t dress like everyone else, you don’t have to think like everyone else."
—Iris Apfel
"Nothing gives the luxury of pearls. Please keep that in mind."
—Diana Vreeland
"Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it."
—Yves Saint Laurent
"A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view."
—Sophia Loren
"Fashion is not necessarily about labels. It's not about brands. It's about something else that comes from within you."
—Ralph Lauren
"I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear."
—Katherine Hepburn
"Don't wear what fashion designers tell you to wear. Wear what they wear."
—Tina Fey
"The joy of dressing is an art."
—John Galliano
"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
"I can't concentrate in flats!"
—Victoria Beckham
"Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable."
—Donna Karan
“A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes."
—Vera Wang
Keep your heels, head and standards high."
—Coco Chanel
"You can have anything you want. If you dress for it."
—Edith Head
"You can't be melancholy in fashion because people don't respond to it."
—Isaac Mizrahi
"Anyone can get dressed up and glamorous, but it is how people dress in their days off that are the most intriguing."
—Alexander Wang
“Style is something each of us already has, all we need is to find it."
—Diane von Furstenberg
"If I'm going dancing, then I wear the highest heels with the shortest dress."
—Kate Moss
"Shoes transform your body language and attitude. They lift you physically and emotionally."
—Christian Louboutin
"Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world."
—Marilyn Monroe
"What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language."
—Miuccia Prada
"I like my money right where I can see it … hanging in my closet."
—Carrie Bradshaw
"People will stare. Make it worth their while."
—Harry Winston
"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
"Elegance is not standing out, but being remembered."
—Giorgio Armani
"I don't do fashion. I am fashion."
—Coco Chanel
"Fashion is what you're offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose."
—Lauren Hutton
"The great thing about fashion is that it always moves forward."
—Oscar de la Renta
"It's better to have fewer things of quality than too much expendable junk."
—Rachel Zoe
"Fashion is all about happiness. It’s fun. It’s important. But it’s not medicine."
—Donatella Versace
"Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman."
—Coco Chanel
"In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous."
—Elsa Schiaparelli
"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
"Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful."
—Sophia Loren
"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
"Flexibility with yourself and your looks shows self confidence. You're willing to paint on your canvas with whatever comes from within you."
—Willow Smith
"I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world."
—Bette Midler
"I don't design clothes. I design dreams."
—Ralph Lauren
“Fashion is more art than art is."
—Andy Warhol
"Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well."
—Vivienne Westwood
"A great dress can make you remember what is beautiful about life."
—Rachel Roy
"Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves and, of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys they'd just walk around naked at all times."
—Betsey Johnson
"Fashion you can buy, but style you possess. The key to style is learning who you are, which takes years. There's no how-to road map to style. It's about self expression and, above all, attitude."
—Iris Apfel
"Elegance is elimination."
—Cristóbal Balenciaga
"The best things in life are free. The second best are very expensive."
—Coco Chanel
"Clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them."
–Marc Jacobs
"There is no sound more feminine than a woman in a taffeta dress."
—Oscar de la Renta
"Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody’s buying far too many clothes."
—Vivienne Westwood
