Fashion Quotes

“The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“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, Naamah's Kiss

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

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

“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, A Vintage Affair

“Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“One must commit acts of the highest treason only when dressed in the most resplendent finery.”
― Grant Morrison, Sebastian O

“What a strange power there is in clothing.”
― Isaac Bashevis Singer

“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, Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank: And Other Words of Delicate Southern Wisdom

“Anna shuddered. "Orange is not the colour of seduction, Christopher. Orange is the colour of despair, and pumpkins.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Gold

“I adore fringe.”
― Diana Vreeland

“Why nowadays there's a new fashion every day.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“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

“Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, If I Were a Man

“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

“The articles were extremely eye-opening. Not just in Teen Vogue but in Seventeen and CosmoGirl as well. They were all about being yourself, staying natural, loving your body as is, and going green! The messages were the exact opposite of Vik and Viv's.
Hmmmmm.
Frankie turned to face the full-length mirror that was up against the yellow wardrobe. She opened her robe and examined her body. Fit, muscular, and exquisitely proportioned, she agreed with the magazines. So what if her skin was mint? Or her limbs were attached with seams? According to the magazines, which were - no offense! - way more in touch with the times than her parents were, she was suppose to love her body just the way it was. And she did! Therefor if the normies read magazines (which obviously they did, because they were in them), then they would love her, too. Natural was in.
Besides she was Daddy's perfect little girl. And who didn't love perfect?”
― Lisi Harrison, Monster High

“Our assholes will be clean but we must never wash our hands. Our immune systems will be strengthened by our being dirty. Not filthy. Just mildly grimy. Filthy fingernails have always been a favorite fashion accessory of mine. Especially when you place your hands in the prayer positions. Matter of fact, I urge all my followers to forgo nail polish permanently and replace it with expertly applied soot. The nonexistent gods above will ignore our prayers better this way.”
― John Waters, Role Models

“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, Daemon

“So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.”
― Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

“...The fact that it's black transforms it. Has the same effect on women that black stockings have on men.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“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

“I know it's practical for career women, but sneakers with suits? Jesus couldn't possibly weep harder than I did.”
― MaryJanice Davidson, Undead and Unpopular

“I believe my life has a value, and i don't want to waste it thinking about clothing.
I don't want to think about what i will wear in the morning. Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion?”
― Michael Crichton

“Even if you fall on the runway, I wouldn't blame you. It would mean that we made a mistake in choosing you.”
― Ai Yazawa, Paradise Kiss, Vol. 4

“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, The Rise of the Hotel Dumort

“Fashion is never wrong.”
― Malcolm McLaren

“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, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

“Fashion is life-enhancing and I think it's a lovely, generous thing to do for other people”
― Vivienne Westwood, Fashion Manifesto: The Guide for the Style-Savvy

“From time to time, you may see a girl wearing her black opaque tights as pants. They are, in fact, not.”
― Nina Garcia, The One Hundred: A Guide to the Pieces Every Stylish Woman Must Own