102 Fashion Quotes

Fashion is not just about the clothes we wear; it's an expression of our inner selves, a statement of individuality, and a reflection of our times. Throughout history, designers, celebrities, and stylish icons have shared their thoughts on the power and importance of fashion. In this collection, we bring you 102 of the most memorable and inspiring fashion quotes that encapsulate the essence of style, creativity, and self-expression. Whether you're a fashion enthusiast or simply seeking a bit of inspiration, these quotes are sure to resonate with you and brighten your sartorial journey.

1. “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” - Oscar Wilde

2. “It costs a lot of money to look this cheap” - Dolly Parton

3. “Any actress who appears in public without being well-groomed is digging her own grave.” - Joan Crawford

4. “It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire... Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.” - Jane Austen

5. “Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.” - Dave Barry

6. “People always ask me how long it takes to do my hair. I don’t know, I’m never there.” - Dolly Parton

7. “I'll never wake up in a good mood again.I'm tired of these stinky boots” - Jim Morrison

8. “Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts” - Jim Morrison

9. “I put on some make-up, turn on the 8-track, and I'm pulling the wig down from the shelf - suddenly I'm Miss Punk Rock Star of Stage and Screen and I ain't ever turning back!” - John Cameron Mitchell

10. “So how was Christmas for you guys? Did you all get lots of nice black t-shirts?” - Gerard Way

11. “It was my friend Frank, a writer in San Francisco, who finally set me straight. When asked about my new look he put down his fork and stared at me for a few moments. "A bow tie announces to the world you can no longer get an erection.” - David Sedaris

12. “Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.” - Yves Saint Laurent

13. “These jeans looked so good on me when I looked in the mirror I wanted to fuck myself.” - Pete Wentz

14. “A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting. ” - Christian Dior

15. “Make up is generally there to make you look better, not make you look like you're wearing make up.” - Hadley Freeman

16. “Logos are the bleating of the insecure, desperate for acceptance by the chronically shallow. ” - Hadley Freeman

17. “The Countess was considerably younger than her husband. All of her clothes came from Paris (this was after Paris) and she had superb taste. (This was after taste too, but only just. And since it was such a new thing, and since the Countess was the only lady in all Florin to posses it, is it any wonder she was the leading hostess in the land?)” - William Goldman

18. “He's wearing his official university sweatshirt again, which puzzles me a little. I mean I'd sort of understand it more if it said Yale or Harvard or something, because then it would be a fashion choice. But why advertise the fact that you're at a university to all the other people who are at the university with you?” - David Nicholls

19. “Sometimes comfort doesn't matter. When a shoe is freakin' fabulous, it may be worth a subsequent day of misery. Soak in Epsom salts and take comfort in the fact that you're better than everyone else.” - Clinton Kelly

20. “this blue shirt i have is practically the same color as my jeans, and looking all-blue is something only cookie monster can pull off.” - David Levithan

21. “Fashion is as profound and critical a part of the social life of man as sex, and is made up of the same ambivalent mixture of irresistible urges and inevitable taboos.” - Rene Konig

22. “Fashion changes, but style endures.” - Coco Chanel

23. “It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.” - Henry David Thoreau

24. “I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.” - Karl Lagerfeld

25. “Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English--but are great in remembering signs” - Karl Lagerfeld

26. “Success nullifies. You then have to do it again, preferably differently” - Karl Lagerfeld

27. “When a woman smiles,then her dress should smile to” - Madeleine Vionnet

28. “I'm so not interesting in having to try and make something out of foil."What, you didn't like the poncho with wraparound leggings?"It was beyond hideou- wait a minute. You watch that show?"My mom loves it."But your suppose to be sulking in the basement getting ready to light fires."What can I say? I'm a failure as a teenager. I watch TV with my mom.” - Elizabeth Scott

29. “Let's face it -- if I could scrap in a full-length bodysuit, I would.” - Lain Ehmann

30. “And once we reach the city, my stylist will dictate my look for the opening ceremonies tonight anyway. I just hope I get one who doesn't think nudity is the last word in fashion.” - Suzanne Collins

31. “I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.” - Karl Lagerfeld

32. “In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish.” - Karl Lagerfeld

33. “If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.” - Karl Lagerfeld

34. “I think it's cool to wear roadkill. If I died and somebody wanted to wear my teeth around their neck to VMAs, I'd feel honored.” - Ke$ha

35. “I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.” - Karl Lagerfeld

36. “Fashion Fact: Most people make the assumption that I wear trendy shades the majority of the time (often indoors) to protect my eyes from the elements. But in fact it's the reverse. I'm protecting the elements from the brilliance of my eyes.” - Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino

37. “I had an interview once with some German journalist—some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists—maybe a week after—and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, ‘It’s impolite; remove your glasses.’ I said, ‘Do I ask you to remove your bra?” - Karl Lagerfeld

38. “There will be days that you don’t want to dress up and if you have some decent looking athletic wear, you can give the illusion that you’ve just been working out, as opposed to giving up on life.” - Big Mama

39. “I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job.” - Karl Lagerfeld

40. “He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.” - Michelle Obama

41. “Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.” - Mary Quant

42. “The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.” - Oscar Wilde

43. “The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.” - G.K. Chesterton

44. “No need for everyone to look the same. The secret is to wear what suits you best!” - Chica Umino

45. “Whenever I see people with their collars up, I'm tempted to point it out to them like you would for someone who has a food stain on their shirt or food in their teeth, as if to say, 'Your fashion sense is so offensive I'm assuming it's some sort of accident you'll want to fix.” - Stephan Pastis

46. “I don't suppose I can wear the flamingo tie," he said as he pulled on black socks. "It's a bit festive, given the occasion," I responded. "Can't wear it to the opera," said the Colonel, almost smiling. "Can't wear it to a funeral. Can't use it to hang myself. It's a bit useless, as ties go." I gave him a tie.” - John Green

47. “It is impossible to be completely abstract about clothes because they have no life unless they are worn. They must fit onto a body or they do not exist.” - Elizabeth Hawes

48. “Fashion sighs after trends. I want timeless elegance. Fashion has no time. I do. I say: Hello Lady, how can I help you? Fashion has no time to even ask such a question, because it is constantly concerned with finding out: What will come next? It is more about helping women to suffer less, to attain more freedom and independence.” - Yohji Yamamoto

49. “What I really love about them... is the fact that they contain someone's personal history...I find myself wondering about their lives. I can never look at a garment... without thinking about the woman who owned it. How old was she? Did she work? Was she married? Was she happy?... I look at these exquisite shoes, and I imagine the woman who owned them rising out of them or kissing someone...I look at a little hat like this, I lift up the veil, and I try to imagine the face beneath it... When you buy a piece of vintage clothing you're not just buying the fabric and thread - you're buying a piece of someone's past.” - Isabel Wolff

50. “I've no idea when I'm going to wear it, the girl replied calmly. I only knew that I had to have it. Once I tried it on, well... She shrugged. The dress claimed me.” - Isabel Wolff

51. “That was when I first observed a phenomenon I now call the "New York Slide": you offer your words to try to communicate and connect with someone, but your words just hit a brick wall the person has erected to ward off human contact- the words slide down it and roll away.” - Kelly Cutrone

52. “Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.” - Karl Lagerfeld

53. “A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.” - Sophia Loren

54. “A beautiful dress may look beautiful on a hanger, but that means nothing. It must be seen on the shoulders, with the movement of the arms, the legs, and the waist.” - Coco Chanel

55. “A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement” - Jess C. Scott

56. “I have to admit that I'm up to my neck in frivolity, buried in dresses to the point of ruin! Fifteen different garments! My wardrobe jam-packed! My girl, this is not the way for an old woman to behave - particularly since you never wear anything but black and white, or a little grey, so that you always look as though you were in the same dress. Why fritter away your money so absurdly? (22 August 1919)” - Liane de Pougy

57. “Clearly the sight of a well-muscled forearm incited a woman to utter depravity. How else to explain the invention of cuffs?” - Tessa Dare

58. “Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.” - Coco Chanel

59. “Sometimes she wore Levi's with white-suede fringe sewn down the legs and a feathered Indian headdress, sometimes old fifties' taffeta dresses covered with poetry written in glitter, or dresses made of kids' sheets printed with pink piglets or Disney characters.” - Francesca Lia Block

60. “Fashion is only different skins for different flavours of you.” - Lauren Beukes

61. “Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?” - Yves Saint Laurent

62. “I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.” - Oscar Wilde

63. “I'm a risk taker and i've always been like that that, especially when it comes to fashion” - Christina Aguilera

64. “Okay, let's see if I got this straight. The butt is the new breast, and the lower back is the new ankle. Now if only we could figure out where the brain has moved.” - Celia Rivenbark

65. “The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all.” - Anneli Rufus

66. “I cleaned the shit off my pink high-tops and drove home, stopping for an espresso at the coffeehouse across from the college. Men and women were hunched over copies of Jean Paul Sartre and writing in their journals. Most wore the thin-rimmed tortoiseshell glasses favored by intellectuals. Their clothes were faded to a precisely fashionable degree; you can buy them that way from catalogs now, new clothes processed to look old. The intellectuals looked at me in my overalls the way such people inevitably look at farmers. I dumped a lot of sugar in my espresso and sipped it delicately at a corner table near the door. I looked at them the way farmers look at intellectuals.” - Mary Rose O'Reilley

67. “Every morning in the middle of nowhere, without electricity or anyone to impress, I'd take great care in picking out my outfit and hover in front of a business card-size mirror to apply my lip gloss and check my eyebrows. I also felt I had a strong case for bringing a little black dress on expeditions. Village parties spring up more often than you might expect, and despite never having been a Girl Scout, I like to be prepared.” - Mireya Mayor

68. “Perhaps the most irrational fashion act of all was the male habit for 150 years of wearing wigs. Samuel Pepys, as with so many things, was in the vanguard, noting with some apprehension the purchase of a wig in 1663 when wigs were not yet common. It was such a novelty that he feared people would laugh at him in church; he was greatly relieved, and a little proud, to find that they did not. He also worried, not unreasonably, that the hair of wigs might come from plague victims. Perhaps nothing says more about the power of fashion than that Pepys continued wearing wigs even while wondering if they might kill him.” - Bill Bryson

69. “It's not a concert you are seeing, it's a fashion show.” - Freddie Mercury

70. “We have work to do if you are not to be a total failure like high-waisted, acid-wash jeans.” - Libba Bray

71. “All is fair in fashion and war.” - Thisuri Wanniarachchi

72. “Part of being a conscious human being, is having an intention. And if you put an intention into whatever you do, it’s definitely going to be more satisfying in the end” - Daphne Guinness

73. “It's not very easy to grow up into a woman. We are always taught, almost bombarded, with ideals of what we should be at every age in our lives: "This is what you should wear at age twenty", "That is what you must act like at age twenty-five", "This is what you should be doing when you are seventeen." But amidst all the many voices that bark all these orders and set all of these ideals for girls today, there lacks the voice of assurance. There is no comfort and assurance. I want to be able to say, that there are four things admirable for a woman to be, at any age! Whether you are four or forty-four or nineteen! It's always wonderful to be elegant, it's always fashionable to have grace, it's always glamorous to be brave, and it's always important to own a delectable perfume! Yes, wearing a beautiful fragrance is in style at any age!” - C. JoyBell C.

74. “Coco Chanel used to talk about wearing more than one string of pearls. Why wear one if you can wear two, or something to that effect. I think that one string of pearls is just fine. But that's because my pearls are black, hers were white.” - C. JoyBell C.

75. “I’ve seen daggers pierce the chest,Children dying in the road,Crawling things hooked and baited,Rapists bound and then castrated,Villains singed in public square.Yet none these sights did make me cringeLike when my Love cut all her hair.” - Roman Payne

76. “A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion” - Coco Chanel

77. “Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth,but to make them beautifu” - Coco Chanel

78. “Well, the ancients might not have been very heroic. Most of them were probably like Mother, crouched somewhere trying to work out how to make fake jawbone jewelry that would look like the real thing.” - Barbara Kingsolver

79. “The childish and savage taste of men and women for new patterns keeps how many shaking and squinting through kaleidoscopes that they may discover the particular figure which this generation requires to-day. The manufacturers have learned that this taste is merely whimsical. Of two patterns which differ only by a few threads more or less of a particular color, the one will be sold readily, the other lie on the shelf, though it frequently happens that after the lapse of a season the latter becomes the most fashionable. Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable.” - Henry David Thoreau

80. “When I look back on the stuff I used to wear, I wonder why somebody didn't try to stop me. Just a friendly warning, "You may regret this," would have been fine.” - Ellen DeGeneres

81. “You must remember, Madame Harris, elegance is in the details.” - Lynn Sheene

82. “you are what you wear” - Treasure Stitches

83. “I dress the way I want. I don`t pretend to be someone I`m not.” - Britney Spears

84. “The most pleasant and alluring curve on a woman is the smile” - Treasure Stitches

85. “My motto for fashion: If you can’t afford to make an elegant statement, make a ridiculous one.” - Stacey Jay

86. “To have an independant mind, to think for oneself, not to follow fashion, not to seek honour or decoration, not to become part of the establishment” - Marcel Schlumberge

87. “fabrics doesn't make exquisite dresses, it is the stitches.” - Treasure Stitches

88. “To tell you the truth, I dislike anything that is in fashion.” - Maraso

89. “At its best fashion is a game. But for women it's a compulsory game, like net ball, and you can't get out of it by faking your period. I know I have tried. And so for a woman every outfit is a hopeful spell, cast to influence the outcome of the day. An act of trying to predict your fate, like looking at your horoscope. No wonder there are so many fashion magazines. No wonder the fashion industry is worth an estimated 900 billion dollars a year. No wonder every woman's first thought is, for nearly every event in her life, be it work, snow or birth. The semi-despairing cry of "but what will I wear?" Because when a woman says I have nothing to wear, what she really means is there is nothing here for who I am supposed to be today.” - Caitlin Moran

90. “I was sufficiently recovered from my nervous condition – or else the booze was beginning to work – to be able to discuss with Rudi the merits of checked or striped trousers, which had been the great debate among the London nobs that year. I was a check-er myself, having the height and leg for it, but Rudi thought they looked bumpkinish, which only shows what damned queer taste they had in Austria in those days. Of course, if you’ll put up with Metternich you’ll put up with anything.” - George MacDonald Fraser

91. “I had no name for that particular hue of orange, other than unfortunate.” - Rachel Caine

92. “Aside from infrequent comments ("Cheer up, love," or "It's not Hallo'ween"), no one wondered why a teenager was dressed up as a chic governess. Sylvie approved of Miri, even at the same time as she was confused by her. "It's a style at least," she said, and took off her rope of pearls and looped them around Miri's neck.” - Helen Oyeyemi

93. “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 Ash

94. “But it was fantasy, and she knew it. It was her fantasy, and the fantasy of everyone else who would look at her and at her pictures; and it would stop being real the moment the man with the camera stopped clicking.” - Umair Naeem

95. “And my dream for you..........., is that you'll catch a glimpse of what I love so much about fashion: It's boldness and creativity, the confidence that it takes to stand before a camera and let your image be captured, even though you aren't perfect, the peace to be truly okay with how others see you.” - Lauren Scruggs

96. “You could have fucked me ’til your uncut, overexposed on the blogs, ‘too ginormous for my snatch’ pecker fell off. And I’d still no way never ever in a thousand years sell, loan, sample you my Easton. And to answer your question, I run my company with my pussy, and twenty-four other pussy-sporting employees. Easton girls do not allow dickheads or cocks in our fashion world. Period.” - Avery Aster

97. “Walk like you have three men walking behind you.” - Oscar de la Renta

98. “Paris and Fashion. Books and Art. What would one be ... without the other?” - Peggy Kopman-Owens

99. “All I can tell you about fashion and style is this: buy and wear what makes you happy.” - John Jannuzzi

100. “Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.And falsehoods the truths of other people.Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.” - Oscar Wilde

101. “Let those who love me follow me'Cora Pearl, on being the very first person to dye her hair red in 1864” - Cora Pearl courtesan of the demi-monde

102. “Stressed, depressed, but well dressed.” - weheartit