Top 100 Woman Fashion Quotes
#1. Each morning, you dress to become a different woman. Fashion helps.
Carine Roitfeld
#2. [To a woman who claimed she'd rather be dead than unconfined and unfashionable:] My dear, if you continue to lace as tightly as you do now, you will not long have the privilege of choice. You will be both dead and out of fashion.
Dorothea Dix
#3. I think I was aware when I started doing stand-up, especially on my own, that, yeah, I'm getting up on stage, and I'm a woman, and I dress in a sort of typically feminine fashion.
Jenny Slate
#4. If there's one shade a woman of colour can't wear it's got to be the one everyone expects, hasn't it?
Sara Sheridan
#5. Never forget that the most essential fashion accessories, the ones no woman can afford to do without, come from within. A generous heart, a spontaneous smile, and eyes that sparkle with delight can be part of any woman's signature look once she awakens to her authentic beauty.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#6. I experiment with fashion, with my look, with everything. I'm a multidimensional woman, like all women are. The difference is that I have the balls to take chances.
Nicki Minaj
#7. A French woman is a perfect architect in dress: she never, with Gothic ignorance, mixes the orders; she never tricks out a snobby Doric shape with Corinthian finery; or, to speak without metaphor, she conforms to general fashion only when it happens not to be repugnant to private beauty.
Oliver Goldsmith
#8. We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It's like hunger and thirst - you need them both.
Karl Lagerfeld
#9. When the waif look first came into fashion, Anna Nicole Smith was in the Guess campaigns looking like a real woman. A girl who looks too thin and unhealthy does not look sexy to me, and she does not look right for Guess.
Paul Marciano
#10. No matter how old and glorious the models, sad indeed is the woman who sees fashion as a means of self-expression rather than an agent of social control.
Julie Burchill
#11. I'd be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her, address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk.
D.H. Lawrence
#12. I want women to really look like women from today. It's not from the past and not from the future, because I don't know what happens in the future. It is the woman of today (who) I think is a seductive woman.
Carolina Herrera
#14. High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley
#15. Woman for whom Botox and fillers are the norm don't feel dressed without it. It's like going to the hairdresser's for them. Also, famously, lipstick sales go up in a recession: you may not be able to afford the shoes and the dress but you are sure going to keep your lips pillow perfect.
Imogen Edwards-Jones
#16. What couldn't I do now, having already committed such a breach of fashion logic and lived to tell the tale? Why couldn't I pretend to be a woman with a solid core of self-worth, who likes herself no matter what the nearest handsome man or evil mother thinks of her?
Laurie Viera Rigler
#17. I've always admired a woman who can dress for all occasions-someo ne who's not fashion crazy,but you always want to look like her.
Ralph Lauren
#18. Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
Coco Chanel
#19. Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion.
Margaret Sanger
#20. One of my core values is to help redefine what it means to be a strong and beautiful woman in the music and fashion worlds and to empower the wonderful things that make us unique.
Janelle Monae
#21. A runway is spectacle. It's only fashion when a woman puts it on.
Oscar De La Renta
#22. There are a bunch of different ways to look at the fashion industry. Is it shallow to work in fashion? Yes, it can be. But does fashion transform a woman who might feel like nothing and unimportant to glamorous and gorgeous? Yes, it does. Does it employ a huge sector of America? Yes, it does.
Kelly Cutrone
#23. A woman plays such an active role in society. And today, the woman who influences fashion is not that very rich woman who sits at home and polishes her nails. It's the one who works, who is a doer, who does things by dressing. She's very strongly projecting an image of herself as an individual.
Oscar De La Renta
#24. I've always thought of accessories as the exclamation point of a woman's outfit.
Michael Kors
#25. A fine woman shews her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in nature is not so fine as what imagination forms.
Richard Gregory
#26. Wearing a hat implies that you are bald if you are a man and that your hair is dirty if you are a woman.
P. J. O'Rourke
#28. Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume.
Rudyard Kipling
#29. When it comes to fashion, even the most sensible woman is not to be trusted.
Wilbur Smith
#30. Net-a-porter is an environment where a woman can really indulge, browsing through more than 160 brands in our fashion playground.
Natalie Massenet
#31. I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesn't date.
Alice Temperley
#32. If you were a sane woman, I would, of course, behave in a more rational fashion. Since you are a lunatic, however, this is the only way.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#33. When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience.
Mary Hunter Austin
#34. Driven to design by what she refers to as the lack of glamour in the industry, Bar Or creates for the modern woman who is a fashion risk-taker, one who is confident and, perhaps, has a larger than life personality.
Aslaug Magnusdottir
#35. I think the 'Harpers Bazaar' woman is not a fashion victim; she understands fashion but is not a victim, you know.
Carine Roitfeld
#36. I always loved fashion and clothes. Not because I think that's a woman's place, but because I care about aesthetics. I like art; I like going to art museums, and to me, these things are just manifestations of one's aesthetic sense.
Leila Janah
#37. I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.
Ralph Lauren
#38. God bless ladies with costly, tasteful clothes and touching, dirty fingernails that champion gifted, foreign poets and decorate the library in beautiful, melancholy fashion! My God, this universe is nothing to snicker at!
J.D. Salinger
#39. Although a life-long fashion dropout, I have absorbed enough by reading Harper's Bazaar while waiting at the dentist's to have grasped that the purpose of fashion is to make A Statement. My own modest Statement, discerned by true cognoscenti, is, Woman Who Wears Clothes So She Won't Be Naked.
Molly Ivins
#41. A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
Coco Chanel
#42. How can any person justify an aesthetic that reduces a woman or child to an emaciated skeleton? Is it art? Surely fashion's aesthetic should enhance and beautify the human form, not destroy it.
Coco Rocha
#43. The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.
Karl Lagerfeld
#44. I have always felt my role as a designer is to do the very best I can for a woman to make her look her best. Fashion is only fashion once a woman puts it on.
Oscar De La Renta
#45. Today, fashion is really about sensuality-how a woman feels on the inside. In the '80s women used suits with exaggerated shoulders and waists to make a strong impression. Women are now more comfortable with themselves and their bodies-they no longer feel the need to hide behind their clothes.
Donna Karan
#46. If you are a reader of 'Harper's Bazaar,' to me, you are a woman who loves fashion, but not just fashion; you love fashion, you love travel, you love art, you love music.
Carine Roitfeld
#47. I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, 'Try one. Try a skirt.'
Katharine Hepburn
#48. I don't gravitate toward any one designer because I think of fashion as the costume of the everyday woman.
Kerry Washington
#49. I'm a tall woman. At work, that means a lot of my co-stars have to stand next to me on apple crates. But apparently, my height bodes well in the fashion world.
Taylor Schilling
#50. The most loyal and faithful woman indulges her imagination in a hypothetical liaison whenever she dons a new street frock for the first time.
George Jean Nathan
#51. Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.
Jane Austen
#52. It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.
Honore De Balzac
#53. The woman who does her job for society inside the four walls of her home must not be considered by her husband or anyone else an economic "dependent," reaching out her hands in mendicant fashion for financial help.
Mary Barnett Gilson
#54. Even though I avoid buying clothes that are 'in fashion', choosing things I fall in love with and wearing them till they fall apart - and generally going for vintage when it comes to evening wear - I still, like every woman I know, suffer from occasional pangs of 'clothes guilt'.
Sheherazade Goldsmith
#55. I've always been inspired by women, and my mission was to inspire women. I always wanted to become a certain kind of woman, and I became that woman through fashion. It was a dialogue. I would see that the wrap dress made those women confident, and made them act with confidence.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#56. Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.
Jean De La Bruyere
#57. Today when a man gets married he gets a home, a housekeeper, a cook, a cheering squad and another paycheck. When a woman marries, she gets a boarder. To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.
Duke Of Wellington
#58. For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion. Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
Yves Saint-Laurent
#59. We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions. No woman can be well dressed unless she is comfortable in what she is wearing.
Bill Blass
#60. A woman only needs one pair of shoes for an outfit. But God, you've got to get it just right.
Allan Dare Pearce
#61. A flower is beautiful not because she knows what the new fashion is, but because she knows the desires of your heart.
Debasish Mridha
#63. A lot of my peers don't think about collaborating the way I do. My approach is to imagine my world. The Jason Wu woman isn't just floating around in a beautiful dress. I like to know where she's going, what she likes. I'm not just in the fashion business. I'm in the lifestyle business.
Jason Wu
#64. I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.
Coco Chanel
#65. The dress must not hang on the body but follow its lines. When a woman smiles the dress must smile with her.
Madeleine Vionnet
#66. The most important part of fashion photography, for me, is not the models; it's not the clothes. It's that you are responsible for defining what a woman today is. That, I think, is my job.
Peter Lindbergh
#67. A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.
Christian Dior
#68. In my opinion the man looks at the relationship in a more bitter fashion and the woman still holds great hopes.
Abbas Kiarostami
#69. The real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet.
Christian Dior
#70. Sexy for me is a curvy woman - doesn't have to be skinny, which I hate anyway. I'm glad [the fashion industry] is changing slowly a little bit now to get more into the boobs and hips again.
Heidi Klum
#73. Fashion is emotional, and the way women look at it is emotional, so it's very important to try to connect with a woman's idea of how she might feel.
Guido Palau
#75. One might almost fear," writes a thoughtful woman, "seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some new fashion or faith, that heaven is not so near to them as it was to their mothers and grandmothers.
Samuel Smiles
#76. Anna Wintour is the most powerful woman in the global fashion industry, the first lady of fashion. She's a politician; I'm a stylist. They are two very different jobs.
Carine Roitfeld
#77. My passion for fashion originated in my mother's closet. She was a woman who loved fashion. She enjoyed dressing up a lot, and she had a closet that was like her sacred room that belonged only to her. She wouldn't let us go in and play there very often.
Nina Garcia
#78. Only a woman could make so much out of so little. Give them a single fact and they'd fashion it into a story before taking a single breath.
Ted Dekker
#79. I was a very young girl and I got into fashion very much by accident, wanting to be independent. What was wonderful was that while I was learning and discovering - learning about the work, discovering myself as a woman - I was allowing other women to feel the same way.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#80. Great parts of our economy are directly dependent upon women having a weak self-concept. A multi-billion dollar fashion-cosmetic industry testifies to the validity of this approach. A woman who does not know who she is can be sold anything.
Gabrielle Burton
#81. The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman.
Karl Lagerfeld
#82. All a woman needs to be chic is a raincoat, two suits, a pair of trousers and a cashmere sweater
Hubert De Givenchy
#83. Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
Yves Saint-Laurent
#84. I think it's about time that we represent all women on the catwalk because that is a part of fashion. The way I see it, there's no wrong way to be a woman.
Denise Bidot
#85. The Middle Eastern woman is sophisticated; she is modern. She knows fashion more than anyone else, and she is really sexy, and she does know how to live fashion, and I think we can all learn from each other.
Reem Acra
#88. She was a woman in her thirties with sun-damaged skin and an opt-out approach to fashion.
Susan Juby
#89. I did extensive research on media and anorexia and found out that the fashion magazines are to blame in a way. They project an image of a woman that is completely absurd, but girls and women believe they should be very skinny. They don't look like real woman anymore.
Oliviero Toscani
#90. There really is no sense in pretending to be normal. Just be you because the moment you do, weirder things happen. Crazy comes back into fashion and every woman has to go out and find her some.
Shannon L. Alder
#91. The dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress.
Hubert De Givenchy
#92. Your women of fashion ceases to be a woman. She is neither mother, nor wife, nor lover. She is, medically speaking, sex on the brain.
Honore De Balzac
#93. I love clothes. I don't know a woman who doesn't. But generally women are intrigued with fashion. Designers are almost making fun of us at times.
Olivia Newton-John
#94. It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.
Yves Saint-Laurent
#95. I like my clothes tight enough to show I'm a woman, but loose enough to show I'm a lady.
Mae West
#96. A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
Sophia Loren
#97. That woman could raise her children in whatever substandard fashion she saw fit, but how dare she let the consequences of her casual neglect injure someone else's.
Kimberly McCreight
#98. I hope the average woman feels she needs practicality but with a little bit of fantasy. Otherwise, it's just not fashion.
Francisco Costa
#99. My fashion is about the urban woman in the year 3000. I think about obscure, weird things and try to create a world around them.
Lady Gaga
#100. I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.
Karl Lagerfeld
