Clothes And Fashion Quotes

• I love clothes and fashion more than music

  Roberto Cavalli

  Fashion, Clothes

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• Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Reality, Clothes

  Twitter post from Oct 15, 2012

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• Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fashion, Teenage, Laughing

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Economy'.

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• Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Greatness, Perfection

  "Harper's Bazaar" Magazine, 1923.

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• Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

  Gore Vidal

  Inspirational, Fashion, Hair

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from Feb 28, 2011

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• 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

  Fashion, Inspirational Life, Rocks

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• Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves, of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys, they'd just walk around naked at all times.

  Betsey Johnson

  Funny, Girl, Fashion

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• How can you live the high life if you do not wear the high heels?

  Sonia Rykiel

  Fashion, High Heels, Shoes

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  Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Beauty, Fashion

  Epictetus (1758). “All the Works of Epictetus: Which are Now Extant; Consisting of His Discourses, Preserved by Arrian, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.227

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• 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

  Fashion, Views, Clothes

  Virginia Woolf (1995). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.92, Wordsworth Editions

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• Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Fashion, Men, Clothes

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

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• Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Sarcastic

  Quoted in More Maxims of Mark, ed. Merle Johnson (1927)

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• We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Inspirational, Fashion, Icons

  Yves Saint Laurent (1983). “Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume”, p.21, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• 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

  Fashion, Divorce, Men

  "Head Over Heels for Manolo Blahnik" by Lisa Armstrong, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 23, 2010.

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• One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Clothes You Wear, Black

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• Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

  Quentin Crisp

  Sad, Fashion, Being Yourself

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• Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

  William Hazlitt

  Fashion, Clothes, Dresses

  1819 Political Essays,'On the Clerical Character'.

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• It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Fashion, Clothes, Easier

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “THE TALES OF AVONLEA - Complete Collection: 16 Novels & 27 Short Stories (Including Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Prince Edward Island, The Story Girl & Emily Starr Trilogy)”, p.187, e-artnow

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• A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.

  Dorothy Parker

  Fashion, Nice, Inspiration

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• Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans — it’s up to you.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Women, Jeans

  "Karl Lagerfeld's Fashion Therapy". Harper's Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 13, 2009.

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• The dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress.

  Hubert de Givenchy

  Fashion, Dresses, Body

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• It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Clothes, Fog

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.23, Graphic Arts Books

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• People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.

  Ralph Lauren

  Dream, Fashion, Money

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• Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.

  Edna Woolman Chase

  Fashion, Style, Appearance

  Edna Woolman Chase, Ilka Chase (1954). “Always in Vogue”

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• The goal I seek is to have people refine their style through my clothing without having them become victims of fashion.

  Giorgio Armani

  Fashion, Clothes, People

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