81+ Best Clothes Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Profoundly inspirational clothes quotes will challenge the way you think, and make your life worth living.

Famous Clothes Quotes

You either know fashion or you don’t. Anna Wintour

Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don’t have great legs, there are plenty of alternatives. Ralph Lauren

You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes. Too many women think that they are unimportant, but the real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet. Christian Dior

I wanted to dress the woman who lives and works, not the woman in a painting. Giorgio Armani

Fashion is what you’re offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose. Lauren Hutton

It’s not about the dress you wear, it’s about the life you lead in the dress. Diana Vreeland

Florals for spring? Groundbreaking. Miranda Priestly, The Devil Wears Prada

Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment. Alexander McQueen

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity. Diana Vreeland

Don’t forget to fall in love with yourself first. Carrie Bradshaw

One is never over dressed or under dressed with a Little Black Dress. Karl Lagerfeld

Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak. Rachel Zoe

The customer is the final filter. What survives the whole process is what people wear. I’m not interested in making clothes that end up in some dusty museum. Marc Jacobs

Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you, but decide what you are. Gianni Versace

I think there is beauty in everything. What ‘normal’ people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it. Alexander McQueen

Clothes are like a good meal, a good movie and great pieces of music. Michael Kors

Shoes transform your body language and attitude. They lift you physically and emotionally. Christian Louboutin

Dress like you’re going to meet your worst enemy today. Coco Chanel

I like my money right where I can see it: hanging in my closet. Carrie Bradshaw

I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and her body. Calvin Klein

She can beat me, but she cannot beat my outfit. Rihanna

I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect  they are much more interesting. Marc Jacobs

Trendy is the last stage before tacky. Karl Lagerfeld

In a world full of trends, I want to remain a classic. Iman

Can you please spell Gabbana? Andrea Sachs, The Devil Wears Prada

The dress must follow the body of the woman, not the body following the shape of the dress. Hubert de Givenchy

I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence. Yves Saint Laurent

A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes. Vera Wang

Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak. Rachel Zoe

I love fashion and that’s how I express myself. Victoria Beckham

It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion. Yves Saint Laurent

Fashion is a trend. Style lives within a person. Oscar de le Renta

Fashion is the armor to survive the reality of everyday life. Bill Cunningham

Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will  like an instinct. Edith Head

When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: Don’t get carried away it’s only dresses. Karl Lagerfeld

I want to remind people of a different kind of glamour, a different look, and breaking rules of fashion. I want to break the rules. Dita Von Teese.

Always dress like you’re going to see your worst enemy. Kimora Lee

Good fashion is like rock music: all anarchy and revolt. Ann Demeulemeester

Fashion is not necessarily about labels. It’s not about brands. It’s about something else that comes from within you. Ralph Lauren

I have fun with my clothes onstage; it’s not a concert you’re seeing, it’s a fashion show. Freddie Mercury.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. Coco Chanel

I love the idea of embracing your curves and loving yourself while expressing it through fashion. Hayley Hasselhoff

Clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them. Marc Jacobs

I am not trendy. I am not ‘in fashion.’ I am simply a positive human being who has a positive outlook on life. Thierry Mugler

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery. Yves Saint Laurent

Women who wear black have colorful lives. Neiman Marcus

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. Sir Francis Bacon

 I have married fashion and I think it has been a good wife. Franco Moschino

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

Whoever said money can’t buy happiness, simply didn’t know where to go shopping. Bo Derek

Fashion is very important. It is life enhancing, and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well. Vivienne Westwood

People will stare. Make it worth their while. Harry Winston

What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language. Miuccia Prada

I’ve been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black. Pierre- Auguste Renoir

When I first moved to New York, and I was totally broke, sometimes I would buy Vogue instead of dinner. I felt it fed me more. Carrie Bradshaw, Sex And The City

I wanted to be a certain kind of woman. I became that kind of woman. Diane Von Furstenberg

Fashion should be a form of escapism and not a form of imprisonment. Alexander McQueen

No matter how you feel, always get up, dress up, and show up. Regina Brett

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

Everything I wear is a DO and everything else is a ‘DON’T’. Christian Siriano

We don’t need fashion to survive, we just desire it so much. Marc Jacobs

I think in black. Gareth Pugh

In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable. Christian Dior

Fashion is about suspense, surprise and fantasy. It’s not about rules. Wolfgang Poop

Clothes are like a good meal, a good movie, great pieces of music. Michael Kors

A woman can carry a bag. But it’s the shoe that carries the woman. Christian Louboutin

The joy of dressing is an art. John Galliano

Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody’s buying far too many clothes. Vivienne Westwood

Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion your own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live. Gianni Versace

The dress must not hang on the body but follow its lines. When a woman smiles, a dress must smile with her. Madeleine Vionnet

Fashion, somehow for me, is purely and happily irrational. Hedi Slimane

It is what a woman leaves off, not what she puts on that gives her cachet. Paul Poiret

I don’t want a politician who’s thinking about fashion for even one millisecond. It’s the same as medical professionals. The idea of a person in a Comme des Garcons humpback dress giving me a colonoscopy is just not groovy. Simon Doonan

Playing dress up starts at the age of five and never truly ends. Kate Spade

I think that because I’m overweight,my fantasy was lightness. So I project my fantasy to the clothes, and now all I do is light, light clothes because it’s the one thing I don’t have. That is why I’m too afraid to lose weight because then I might make heavy clothes. Alber Elbaz

We just don’t need fashion to survive. We just desire it so much. Marc Jacobs

When you go to a nice restaurant, you want to be relaxed and have a drink and everything, you want to look at people who look well. You don’t want to look at some slob with an open shirt and a hairy chest, at least I don’t. Iris Apfel

If you want to be original, be ready to be copied. Coco Chanel

Whoever said that money can’t buy happiness, simply didn’t know where to go shopping. Bo Derek

If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe shoes too; yes I see what you mean but, really, it’s the jewels that change an outfit. Manolo Blahnik