Fashion Quotes

Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.

~ E.m. Forster

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool

~ Aesop

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

You look... amazing! And I have to say, I agree. I'm wearing all black - but expensive black. The kind of deep, soft black that you fall into. A simple sleeveless dress from Whistles, the highest of Jimmy Choos, a pair of stunning uncut amethyst earrings. And please don't ask how much it all cost, because that's irrelevant. This is investment shopping. The biggest investment of my life. I haven't eaten anything all day so I'm nice and thin and for once my hair has fallen perfectly into shape. I look... well, I've never looked better in my life.But of course, looks are only part of the package, aren't they?

~ Sophie Kinsella

Oliver liked to play the part of disaffected youth, but he liked shopping in SoHo even more.

~ Melissa De La Cruz

You make all the fashion statements just by dressing up your mind.

~ Jason Mraz

When does a fake Mohawk become a real Mohawk? Who decides? How do you know if it's happened?

~ Jennifer Egan

[Looking like a straight girl] means wearing clothes that seek and destroy comfort. These are garments designed by gay men to attract heterosexual men. The straight girl is simply the hanger for an inside joke.

~ Mary Dugger

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

Any actress who appears in public without being well-groomed is digging her own grave.

~ Joan Crawford

It's not a concert you are seeing, it's a fashion show.

~ Freddie Mercury

You could dress it up with a sequined headband,” Magnus suggested, offering his boyfriend something blue and sparkly. “Just a thought.” “Resist the urge, Alec.” Simon was sitting on the edge of a low wall with Maia beside him, though she appeared to be deep in conversation with Aline. “You’ll look like Olivia Newton-John in Xanadu.” “There are worse things,” Magnus observed.

~ Cassandra Clare

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

~ Yves Saint-Laurent

There's more to clothing than just adornment. It does more than merely change how the world perceives us. It changes how we perceive ourselves.

~ Jacqueline Carey

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

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

What do you want? Sophronia was moved to exasperation.Me? Stockings and breeches to come back in fashion. I do miss seeing a man's calves.

~ Gail Carriger

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

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

The imprint of Miss Hepburn is absolutely, totally present. Like it or not, she will be the most important look of the twentieth century.

~ Manolo Blahnik

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

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

The rich bought wonderful clothes you recognized. The richest had their pople go to Paris and buy the entire new collection that no one outside of the fashion house has seen.

~ Cassandra Clare

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

~ Oscar Wilde

Buy what you don’t have yet, or what you really want, which can be mixed with what you already own. Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

Just the way it never rains when you have an umbrella, you'll never run into people if you look fantastic. But go outside in pajamas, and you'll run into every ex you have.

~ Tim Gunn

It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.

~ Charles Baudelaire

One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery.

~ Grant Morrison

Under the pink Harlequin sunglasses strawberry dangling charms, and sugar-frosted eyeshadow she was really almost beautiful.

~ Francesca Lia Block

Women want to wear what they do because of what goes on in their heads. Their size and shape have practically nothing to do with it.

~ Elizabeth Hawes

Why nowadays there's a new fashion every day.

~ Leo Tolstoy

In all, his outfit required nearly two thousand man-years of research and development, eight barrels of oil, and sixteen patent and trademark infringement lawsuits. All so he could possess casual style. A style that, in logistical requirements, was comparable to fielding a nineteenth-century military brigade.But he looked good. Casual.

~ Daniel Suarez

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

French girls still have the Jane Birkin culture. You can go just like that, without makeup, without managing your hair.

~ Emmanuelle Alt

From time to time, you may see a girl wearing her black opaque tights as pants. They are, in fact, not.

~ Nina García

I think in black.

~ Gareth Pugh

He is wearing a rugby shirt with numbers and a little man on a horse on his chest. Kent has told Elsa that this sort of shirt costs more than a thousand kronor, and Granny always used to say that those sorts of shirts were a good thing, because the horse functioned as a sort of manufacturer’s warning that the shirt was highly likely to be transporting a muppet.

~ Fredrik Backman

I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.

~ Oscar Wilde

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

~ Yves Saint-Laurent