"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
"Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions." Coco Chanel
“I don't do fashion, I am fashion.” Coco Chanel
“Fashion is architecture. It is a matter of proportions.” Coco Chanel
“I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can't accept that it should originate there.” Coco Chanel
"A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous." Coco Chanel
"Fashions fade, style is eternal." Yves Saint Laurent
“I don't design clothes. I design dreams.” Ralph Lauren
“Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.” ~Golda Meir
"The difference between style and fashion is quality." - Giorgio Armani
“The goal I seek is to have people refine their style through my clothing without having them become victims of fashion.” Giorgio Armani
"Please do not have a fit in the fitting room. Your fashion life begins there." Florence Eiseman
"Fashion is an art. You express who you are through what you're wearing." Daniele Donato
"I take inspiration from old photographs, exotic landscapes or places, as well as the treatment of color and surfaces in other art forms like interior design." - Jay Godfrey
“A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months.” Oscar Wilde
“A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.” Edith Head
“About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.” Manolo Blahnik
“In difficult times fashion is always outrageous.” Elsa Schiaparelli
“Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of the future, and should never be static.” Oleg Cassini
“The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.” George Bernard Shaw
“Fashion is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas.” Bruce Oldfield
“Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.” Edwin Hubbel
“Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.” Jean Cocteau
“Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.” Quentin Crisp
“The dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress.”
Hubert de Givenchy
“Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.” George Santayana
“Respect is love in plain clothes.” Frankie Byrne
“Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.” Henry J. Kaiser
“The lamb began to follow the wolf in sheep’s clothing.” Aesop
“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When his wife asked him to change clothes to meet the German Ambassador: If they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits.”
Albert Einstein
“Clothes don’t make a man, but clothes have got many a man a good job.” Herbert Harold Vreeland
“Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.” Anatole France
“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 Ashe
“The dress is a vase which the body follows. My clothes are like modules in which bodies move.”
Pierre Cardin
“The expression a woman wears on her face is more important than the clothes she wears on her back.” Dale Carnegie
“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes," Vera Wang
"It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at you own work over the years." Vera Wang
