On simplicity, little black dresses, perceived beauty and how to have it all: 20 quotes about style.

Perhaps it’s time for another little style pick-me-up so here are 20 more of the best style and fashion quotes of all time. We can all probably agree with fashion greats like Karl Lagerfeld, Alexander McQueen, Yves Saint-Laurent and Sophia Loren when they tell us that style is not about what you buy, it’s what you make of it. But still, it’s nice to hear it from the icons.

You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur. -Karl Lagerfeld

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

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. -Leonardo da Vinci

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world. -Marilyn Monroe

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 like being a woman, even in a man’s world. After all, men can’t wear dresses, but we can wear the pants. -Whitney Houston

The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world. -Alicia Keys

Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves, and of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys, they’d just walk around naked at all times. -Betsey Johnson

So soon as a fashion is Universal, it is out of date. -Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. -Anna Wintour

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

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It’s the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows and the beauty of a woman only grows with passing years. -Audrey Hepburn

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman. –Coco Chanel

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

A woman’s dress should be a like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view. -Sophia Loren

“Fashions fade, style is eternal.” -Yves Saint-Laurent

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

Anyone can get dressed up and glamorous, but it is how people dress in their days off that are the most intriguing. -Alexander Wang

On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock. -Thomas Jefferson

You can have whatever you want if you dress for it. -Edith Head

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More dash than trash: 20 quotes about style.

Sometimes we all need a little style pick-me-up so here are 20 of the best fashion quotes of all time that remind us we don’t have to buy more than we need. As the designers and style icons quoted already know, in fashion – like life – it’s all about attitude.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. –Gore Vidal

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

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. –Jean Cocteau

Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality. –Alexander McQueen

I don’t do fashion. I am fashion. –Coco Chanel

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful. –Sophia Loren

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you’ve got that, the rest really comes from it. –Diana Vreeland

Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess. –Edna Woolman Chase

Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion 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

You have a much better life if you wear impressive clothes –Vivienne Westwood

Style is primarily a matter of instinct. –Bill Blass

When it comes to wearing something outrageous, it’s not a question of “Why?” but “Why Not? –C. Gallardo

It’s always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting. –Jean Paul Gaultier

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

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.  –Epictetus

Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are. 
-Quentin Crisp

Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest. –Christian Dior

Only great minds can afford a simple style. –Stendal


Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests. –Karl Lagerfeld

The dress must not hang on the body but follow its lines.  It must accompany its wearer and when a woman smiles the dress must smile with her. –Madeleine Vionnet

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