Profoundly inspirational dress quotes will make you look at life differently and help you live a meaningful life.
Famous Dress Quotes
I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman. Vera Wang
When in doubt, wear red. Bill Blass
Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who’s wearing it. Yves Saint Laurent
You either know fashion or you don’t. Anna Wintour
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they notice the woman. Coco Chanel
I love black because it affirms, designs, and styles. A woman in a black dress is a pencil stroke. Yves Saint Laurent
A beautiful dress may look beautiful on a hanger, but that means nothing. It must be seen on the shoulders, with the movement of the arms, the legs, and the waist. Coco Chanel
You can wear black at any time. You can wear it at any age. You may wear it for almost any occasion. Christian Dior
A woman’s dress should be like a barbed wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view. Sophia Loren
Never, ever confuse what happens on a runway with fashion. A runway is spectacle. It’s only fashion when a woman puts it on. Being well dressed hasn’t much to do with having good clothes. It’s a question of good balance and good common sense. Oscar de la Renta
You can have anything you want. If you dress for it. Edith Head
Nothing gives the luxury of pearls. Please keep that in mind. Diana Vreeland
A great dress can make you remember what is beautiful about life. Rachel Roy
A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view. Sophia Loren
Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners. Loretta Young
Don’t wear what fashion designers tell you to wear. Wear what they wear. Tina Fey
Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes. Prince Charles
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 think any woman can be transformed by a beautiful dress and high heels. Linda Gray
I can’t concentrate in flats! Victoria Beckham
The way you dress is really the way you feel, the way you live, what you read, your choices. That’s what I want to put into Gucci. Alessandro Michele
A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes. Vera Wang
Luxury is the ease of a t- shirt in a very expensive dress. Karl Lagerfeld
Keep your heels, head and standards high. Coco Chanel
Your dresses should be tight enough to show you’re a woman and loose enough to show you’re a lady. Edith Head
You can have anything you want. If you dress for it. Edith Head
One is never over dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress. Karl Lagerfeld
Anyone can get dressed up and be glamorous, but it is how people dress on their days off that are the most intriguing. Alexander Wang
Cinderella never asked for a prince. She asked for a night off and a dress. Kiera Cass
If I’m going dancing, then I wear the highest heels with the shortest dress. Kate Moss
Just around the corner in every woman’s mind is a lovely dress, a wonderful suit, or an entire costume which will make an enchanting new creature of her. Wilhelm Cushman
Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world. Marilyn Monroe
The dress only means something if you want it to. What is important are the people behind it. When it comes to these things that are handed down from generation to generation, each woman leaves her own mark on it, so that it tells ours story, stitch by stitch. Brenda Janowitz, The Grace Kelly Dress
People will stare. Make it worth their while. Harry Winston
Never has it been inappropriate for a girl to wear a red dress. Caroline George, The Vestige
Elegance is not standing out, but being remembered. Giorgio Armani
Dresses don’t look beautiful on hangers. Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
Fashion is what you’re offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose. Lauren Hutton
You cannot choose your face but you can choose your dress. Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
It’s better to have fewer things of quality than too much expendable junk. Rachel Zoe
I spread my wings. And my dress does the rest. Hillary Wen
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
She did what girls generally do when they don’t feel the part: she dressed it instead. Zadie Smith, On Beauty
Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful. Sophia Loren
Work like an angel, dress like a demon, live like a ghost, and dream like a human. Rebecca McKinsey
Flexibility with yourself and your looks shows self confidence. You’re willing to paint on your canvas with whatever comes from within you. Willow Smith
Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion your own, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live. Gianni Versace
I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world. Bette Midler
There’s a girl in this dress, there’s always a girl in distress. Elvis Costello
Fashion is more art than art is. Andy Warhol
And the women who had thought they wanted dresses never realized that what they had wanted was happiness. John Steinbeck, East of Eden
A great dress can make you remember what is beautiful about life. Rachel Roy
Sometimes women are afraid to be sexy and women should know that sometimes a dress can change her life. Roberto Cavalli
Fashion you can buy, but style you possess. The key to style is learning who you are, which takes years. There’s no how to road map to style. It’s about self expression and, above all, attitude. Iris Apfel
Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it. Lucy, Lady Duff Gordon
The best things in life are free. The second best are very expensive. Coco Chanel
I think a beautiful dress on the wrong woman could mean nothing. It has to be the right woman and the right clothes. That’s why you need that personal touch. Jason Wu
There is no sound more feminine than a woman in a taffeta dress. Oscar de la Renta
A beautiful dress needs wearing; leave a house empty, it rots. Ovid
Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody’s buying far too many clothes.Vivienne Westwood
A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation. Oliver Goldsmith
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
A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body. Christian Dior
I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world. Bette Midler
It’s not about the dress you wear, but it’s about the life you lead in the dress. Diana Vreeland
I think there is beauty in everything. What ‘normal’ people perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it. Alexander McQueen
Dress can hold the power to alter perceptions and opinions, to disguise and reinterpret, to heighten or lessen the wearer’s very sense of themselves for better or for worse. Lydia Edwards
Fashion is the armor to survive the reality of everyday life. Bill Cunningham
Dresses! We love them, we hate them, we gawk at them, we long for them, we disdain them and we buy them. If dresses could talk, what stories might they tell? Peter Lang
Fashions fade, style is eternal.Yves Saint Laurent
Dress stories reveal so much more than we may realize about who and how we are in the world and what sort of culture we are living in. Peter Lang
In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous. Elsa Schiaparelli
A woman who dresses well according to her means only does her duty, but beauty when unadorned is adorned the most. W. Robertson Nicoll
Fashion is very important. It is life enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.Vivienne Westwood
Artistic dress communicates your unique expertise and profession. Jamie Yasko Mangum
Fashion is what you’re offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose. Lauren Hutton
Dress changes the manners. Voltaire
Fashion you can buy, but style you possess. The key to style is learning who you are, which takes years. There’s no road map to style. It’s about self expression and, above all, attitude. İris Apfel
I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias-cut dresses all the time. Nanette Lepore
Elegance is elimination. Cristóbal Balenciaga
A woman has no need to be perfect or even beautiful to wear my dresses. The dress will do all that for her. Cristobal Balenciaga
Style is the only thing you can’t buy. It’s not in a shopping bag, a label, or a price tag. It’s something reflected from our soul to the outside world an emotion. Alber Elbaz
