Fashion Quotes

- I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
Yves Saint Laurent

- I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.
Marlene Dietrich

- Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.
Elsa Schiaparelli

- About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
Manolo Blahnik


- The difference between style and fashion is quality.
Giorgio Armani

- I don't do fashion, I am fashion.
Coco Chanel

- A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
Yves Saint Laurent

- I don't design clothes. I design dreams.
Ralph Lauren

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

- Fashion is architecture. It is a matter of proportions.
Coco Chanel


- I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet.
Giorgio Armani


- Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman's jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with.
Karl Lagerfeld


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


- There is no fashion for the old.
Coco Chanel