"A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous."
~ Coco Chanel
"I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny."
~ Coco Chanel
"Fashions fade, style is eternal."
~ Yves Saint Laurent
"The best color in the whole world, is the one that looks good on you!"
~ Coco Chanel
"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different."
~ Coco Chanel
"Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest."
~ Christian Dior
"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will asset integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary."
~ Cecil Beaton
"Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women."
~ Elsa Schiaparelli
"I don't design clothes, I design dreams."
~ Ralph Lauren
"I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes."
~ Yves Saint Laurent
"Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it."
~ Yves Saint Laurent
"The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural."
~ Calvin Klein
"We must never confuse elegance with snobbery."
~ Yves Saint Laurent
"Dressing is a way of life."
~ Yves Saint Laurent
"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone."
~ Coco Chanel
" 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
"A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future."
~ Coco Chanel
"Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future."
~ Coco Chanel
"A woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed."
~ Coco Chanel
"Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury."
~ Coco Chanel
"There is time for work and time for love. That leaves no other time."
~ Coco Chanel
"There are people who have money and people who are rich."
~ Coco Chanel
"All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left."
~ Cecil Beaton
"Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress."
~ Coco Chanel
"Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty."
~ Coco Chanel
"I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird."
~ Coco Chanel
"Fashion is made to become unfashionable."
~ Coco Chanel
"People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile."
~ Lee Mildon
"I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes."
~ Robert A. Heinlein
"Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-tirds of what is in their closets."
~ Mignon McLaughlin
"Funny that a pair of really nice shoes make us feel good in our head - at the extreme opposite end of our bodies."
~ Levende Waters
"Why is it considered seductive for women to wear beautiful clothes? Wouldn't it make more sense to wear something so ugly that a guy couldn't wait to take it off you?"
~ Flash Rosenberg
"Clothes are inevitable. They are nothing less than the furniture os the mind made visible."
~ James Laver
" I don't know who invented the high heel, but all men owe him a lot."
~ Marilyn Monroe
"One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art."
~ Oscar Wilde
"Clothes can suggest, persuade, connote, insinuate, or indeed lie, and apply subtle pressure while their wearer is speaking frankly and straightforwardly of other matters."
~ Anne Hollander
"Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important."
~ Janet Lane
"Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart."
~ Coco Chanel
"There is nothing that touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress."
~ Joseph Addison
"Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess."
~ Edna Woolman Chase
"Carelessness in dressing is a moral suicide."
~ Honore de Balzac
"Clothes are never a frivolity: they always mean something."
~ James Laver
"The truly fashionable are beyond fashion."
~ Cecil Beaton
"No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink."
~ Murray Banks
