“I don’t design clothes. I design dreams.” – Ralph Lauren. (Photo: Archive)
“Fashion is what you’re offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose.” – Lauren Hutton. (Photo: Archive)
“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. (Photo: Archive)
“Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.” – Anna Wintour. (Photo: Archive)
“Shoes transform your body language and attitude. They lift you physically and emotionally.” – Christian Louboutin. (Photo: Archive)
“Clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them” – Marc Jacobs. (Photo: Archive)
“Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy – but mysterious. But above all black says this: ‘I don’t bother you – don’t bother me'” – Yohji Yamamoto. (Photo: Archive)
“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. (Photo: Archive)
“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 you live.” – Gianni Versace. (Photo: Archive)
“Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.” – Coco Chanel. (Photo: Archive)
“I don’t consider my own clothing to be outrageous… The truth is that people just don’t have the same references that I do. To me it’s very beautiful and it’s art, and to them it’s outrageous and crazy” – Lady Gaga. (Photo: Archive)
“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. (Photo: Archive)
“Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world.” – Marilyn Monroe. (Photo: Archive)
“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. (Photo: Archive)
“The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don’t wear her.” – Mary Quant. (Photo: Archive)
“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. (Photo: Archive)
“Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak” – Rachel Zoe. (Photo: Archive)
“I like my money right where I can see it…hanging in my closet.” – Carrie Bradshaw. (Photo: Archive)
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.” – Jean Cocteau. (Photo: Archive)
“Anyone can get dressed up and glamorous, but it is how people dress in their days off that are the most intriguing.” – Alexander Wang. (Photo: Archive)
“If I’m going dancing, then I wear the highest heels with the shortest dress.” – Kate Moss. (Photo: Archive)
“When in doubt, wear red.” – Bill Blass. (Photo: Archive)
“I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.” – Katharine Hepburn. (Photo: Archive)
“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. (Photo: Archive)
The only real elegance is in the mind; if you’ve got that, the rest really comes from it.” – Diana Vreeland. (Photo: Archive)
“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. (Photo: Archive)
“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. (Photo: Archive)
“My look is attainable. Women can look like Audrey Hepburn by flipping out their hair, buying the large sunglasses, and the little sleeveless dresses.” – Audrey Hepburn. (Photo: Archive)
“Buy less, choose well and do it yourself!” – Vivienne Westwood. (Photo: Archive)
“One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.” – Karl Lagerfeld. (Photo: Archive)
“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.” – Oscar Wilde. (Photo: Archive)
“Make your wardrobe as versatile as an actress. It should be able to play many roles.” ― Joan Crawford. (Photo: Archive)
“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.” – Orson Welles. (Photo: Archive)
“A woman’s dress should be a like a barbed- wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.” – Sophia Loren. (Photo: Archive)
“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” – Coco Chanel. (Photo: Archive)
Check out these iconic quotes from icons in the history of fashion. Certainly words to live by! Or at least dress by…
