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If you're a fashion-lover like myself, you've no dubiousness had at least one AIM away message, Instagram bio, or gallery wall piece referencing a quote past Coco Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld or some other mode cracking. Great manner quotes are almost as iconic as the designers themselves and the clothes they make, but if y'all're getting sick of recycling the same tired few, nosotros've taken the freedom of rounding up the 101 most legendary lines always. I'd be willing to bet that fifty-fifty the almost experienced fashionistas oasis't heard every single i!

While all these quotes are technically about fashion, they're actually almost so much more than that. Way plays on life, on fine art, on love! When a designer is talking well-nigh a particularly moving gown or element of fashion, their words often relate to then much more. Some of the quotes on this list are brusque and cheeky, while others are more thoughtful and profound. Still, all are pretty much iconic. Some come from designers you lot might have hanging in your closet (Rachel Zoe, Marc Jacobs), others are haute couture greats (Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent) and a few are fictitious (Miranda Priestly, Carrie Bradshaw), though just as noteworthy as their IRL counterparts.

Sift through this list until y'all discover sentiments worth coming back to, and add those to your drove of know-how. Volition the renowned Diana Vreeland inspire yous? Or will it be the keen Christian Louboutin, the unequalled Alexander McQueen or someone else entirely? There's merely i fashion to find out—keep scrolling.

ane. "You either know fashion or you don't." – Anna Wintour

2. "Yous can never have besides much care over the pick of your shoes. Too many women retrieve that they are unimportant, only the real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her anxiety." – Christian Dior

three. "Fashion is what you're offered iv times a year past designers. And style is what yous choose." – Lauren Hutton

four. "Florals for spring? Groundbreaking." – Miranda Priestly, The Devil Wears Prada

5. "I loathe narcissism, but I corroborate of vanity." – Diana Vreeland

6. "One is never over-dressed or under-dressed with a Little Black Dress." – Karl Lagerfeld

7. "The customer is the final filter. What survives the whole process is what people wear. I'chiliad non interested in making clothes that end up in some dusty museum." – Marc Jacobs

viii. "I call up in that location is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive every bit ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it." – Alexander McQueen

9. "Shoes transform your body language and attitude. They lift you physically and emotionally." – Christian Louboutin

10. "I like my money correct where I can encounter it: hanging in my cupboard." – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex activity And The City

11. "She can beat me, but she cannot beat my outfit." – Rihanna

12. "Trendy is the last stage before tacky." – Karl Lagerfeld

thirteen. "Can y'all please spell Gabbana?" – Andrea Sachs, The Devil Wears Prada

14. "I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them conviction." – Yves Saint Laurent

15. "Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak." – Rachel Zoe

16. "It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion." – Yves Saint Laurent

17. "Fashion is the armor to survive the reality of everyday life." – Bill Cunningham

18. "When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you lot accept to say: Don't become carried abroad—it'due south only dresses." – Karl Lagerfeld

nineteen. "E'er dress like you're going to see your worst enemy." – Kimora Lee

20. "Fashion is not necessarily about labels. It's not about brands. It'south most something else that comes from within you lot." – Ralph Lauren

21. "The about courageous act is all the same to recall for yourself. Aloud." – Coco Chanel

22. "Clothes mean zip until someone lives in them." – Marc Jacobs

23. "We must never confuse elegance with snobbery." – Yves Saint Laurent

24. "Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse." – Sir Francis Bacon

25. "Girls do not wearing apparel for boys. They dress for themselves, of form, each other. If girls dressed for boys, they'd only walk around naked at all times." – Betsey Johnson

26. "Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing, and, like everything that gives pleasure, information technology is worth doing well." – Vivienne Westwood

27. "What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Mode is instant language." – Miuccia Prada

28. "When I start moved to New York, and I was totally broke, sometimes I would purchase Vogue instead of dinner. I felt it fed me more." – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex activity And The City

29. "Fashion should be a course of escapism and not a course of imprisonment." – Alexander McQueen

30. "Over the years, I accept learned that what is important in a wearing apparel is the adult female who is wearing it." – Yves Saint Laurent

31. "We don't need fashion to survive, we but desire information technology so much." – Marc Jacobs

32. "In a automobile historic period, dressmaking is one of the final refuges of the human being, the personal, the inimitable." – Christian Dior

33. "Clothes are similar a proficient meal, a good movie, great pieces of music." – Michael Kors

34. "The joy of dressing is an art." – John Galliano

35. "Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, merely y'all determine what you are, what yous want to limited by the mode you lot dress and the way you live." – Gianni Versace

36. "Fashion, somehow for me, is purely and happily irrational." – Hedi Slimane

37. "I don't want a politico who'due south thinking about manner for fifty-fifty one millisecond. It's the same as medical professionals. The idea of a person in a Comme des Garcons humpback dress giving me a colonoscopy is just not not bad." – Simon Doonan

38. "I think that because I'm overweight, [my] fantasy was lightness. So I project my fantasy to the clothes, and now all I do is light, light dress because it'due south the ane affair I don't have. That is why I'm as well afraid to lose weight because then I might make heavy clothes." – Alber Elbaz

39. "When y'all go to a nice restaurant, you want to be relaxed and have a drink and everything, you want to expect at people who look well. You lot don't desire to expect at some slob with an open shirt and a hairy chest—at to the lowest degree I don't." – Iris Apfel

40. "Whoever said that coin tin can't purchase happiness, simply didn't know where to get shopping." – Bo Derek

41. "Fashion has to reflect who you are, what you feel at the moment and where you're going." – Pharrell Williams

42. "You gotta have style. Information technology helps you get downwardly the stairs. It helps you get up in the morning. It's a style of life. Without it, you're nobody." – Diana Vreeland

43. "What you wear is such an expression of who you lot are. That'due south like someone picking out who I'm going to engagement!" – Diane Kruger (on not working with a stylist)

44. "I don't do fashion. I am fashion." – Coco Chanel

45. "I'm a very down-to-earth person, but information technology is my task to make that world more pleasant." – Karl Lagerfeld

46. "In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous." – Elsa Schiaparelli

47. "I adore wearing gems, but not considering they are mine. You can't possess radiance, you can only admire information technology."– Elizabeth Taylor

48. "Conformity is the only existent style law-breaking. To non dress similar yourself and to sublimate your spirit to some kind of group identity is succumbing to fashion fascism." – Simon Doonan

49. "I know what women look adept in. I don't think the rules ever change." – Michael Kors

50. "Fashion is not something that exists in dresses but. Manner is in the sky, in the street; mode has to practise with ideas, the way nosotros live, what is happening. – Coco Chanel

51. "I'll terminate wearing blackness when they make a darker color." – Wed Addams

52. "Make it simple, only pregnant." – Don Draper, Mad Men

53. "A great dress tin brand you remember what is beautiful almost life." – Rachel Roy

54. "In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different." – Coco Chanel

55. "People will stare. Make it worth their while." – Harry Winston

56. "When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else." –Iris Apfel

57. "Buy less, choose well." – Vivienne Westwood

58. "Style is very personal. Information technology has null to do with manner. Fashion is over quickly. Manner is forever." – Ralph Lauren

59. "My mother was correct: When you've got null left, all you lot can exercise is get into silk underwear and start reading Proust." – Jane Birkin

60. "Too much good gustatory modality tin be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, tin can be very inspiring." – Diana Vreeland

61. "I'k only trying to change the world, one sequin at a time." – Lady Gaga

62. "If I tin can have any impact, I want women to feel skillful about themselves and have fun with fashion." – Michelle Obama

63. "You can have anything y'all want in life, if you wearing apparel for it." – Edith Head

64. "The dress must follow the torso of a adult female, not the torso following the shape of the apparel." – Hubert de Givenchy

65. "Existent style is never correct or wrong. It'due south a matter of existence yourself on purpose." – Thousand. Bruce Boyer

66. "Style is a simple way of maxim complicated things." – Jean Cocteau

67 . "Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world." – Marilyn Monroe

68. "A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous." – Coco Chanel

69. "Fashion changes, just way endures." – Coco Chanel

seventy. "Style is knowing who you lot are, what you want to say and non giving a damn." –Orson Welles

71. "I don't believe in way. I believe in costume. Life is likewise curt to exist the aforementioned person every day." –Stephanie Perkins

72. "Style; all who have it have one thing: originality." – Diana Vreeland

73. "Apparel have aught until someone lives in them." – Marc Jacobs

74. "I can't concentrate in flats." – Victoria Beckham

75. "Playing dress-up begins at age five and never really ends." – Kate Spade

76. "Fashion is like eating, you shouldn't stick to the same menu." – Kenzo
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77. "Isn't elegance forgetting what ane is wearing?" – Yves Saint Laurent

78. "Style is primarily a matter of instinct." – Bill Blass

79. "Fashion is very of import. Information technology has goose egg to do with manner. Fashion is over speedily. Fashion lasts forever." – Ralph Lauren

80. "Women who wear black lead colorful lives." – Neiman Marcus

81. "We have this saying, Christy and I. Nosotros don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day." – Linda Evangelista

82. "Yous can take anything you want, if you lot apparel for it." – Edith Caput

83. "I feel that flip-flops are the downfall of many relationships. It's like, first it'south the flip-flops, and and then it'south the sweatpants… it'south the gateway drug to no sex." – Lady Gaga

84. "A petty bad taste is like a dainty splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad gustatory modality—it's hearty, it'south healthy, it'due south concrete. I think we could employ more of it. No sense of taste is what I'm against." – Diana Vreeland

85. "I blueprint for the adult female who loves being a woman." – Diane von Furstenberg

86. "Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants." – Karl Lagerfeld

87. "When a adult female says, 'I have nada to vesture!', what she really means is, 'There's zip hither for who I'm supposed to be today.'"– Caitlin Moran

88. "I am anti-pants." – Lena Dunham

89. "I have four bedrooms in my firm. One is for guests, the other three are for closets." – André Leon Talley

90. "When you lot don't feel to dress means that you are depressed. You need a fashion shower." – Anna Dello Russo

91. "There was a photo of me with weird sunglasses on and a green sweatshirt, some striped thing, with tights and cowboy boots… I just saw that photo and idea, God, I await crazy." – Mary-Kate Olsen

92. "I really would non call myself a style icon. I would phone call myself somebody who gets dressed by professionals… I would phone call me more of a monkey." – Jennifer Lawrence

93. "Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. Information technology's important. Merely it'south not medicine." – Donatella Versace

94. "I similar Cinderella; she has a skilful work ethic, and she likes shoes." – Amy Adams

95. "Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going." – Andy Warhol

96 . "A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes." – Vera Wang

97. "I was at school when Britney Spears's 'Baby I More Fourth dimension' came out. I changed my uniform to await like hers. I just looked slutty after that, so cheers, Britney." – Alexa Chung

98. "What'southward condign very obvious to me is that fashion is fine art." – Lupita Nyong'o

99. "Way is function of the daily air, and it changes all the time, with all the events. You tin even come across the approaching of a revolution in dress. You tin see and feel everything in wearing apparel." – Diana Vreeland

100. "I've always thought of accessories as the exclamation signal of a woman'due south outfit." – Michael Kors

101. "I was like, 'What'south Margiela?' back and then." – Kim Kardashian (on a pair of Maison Margiela boots Kanye bought her in 2008)