1. “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 to live.” —Gianni Versace
2. “One is never over-dressed or under-dressed with a Little Black Dress.” —Karl Lagerfeld
3. “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
4. “You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it.” —Edith Head
5. “Fashion is about dressing according to what’s fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.” —Oscar de la Renta
6. “Fashion is the armor to survive the reality of everyday life.” —Bill Cunningham
7. “When in doubt, wear red.” —Bill Blass
8. “I don’t design clothes. I design dreams.” —Ralph Lauren
9. “Fashions fade, style is eternal.” —Yves Saint Laurent
10. “How can you live the high life if you do not wear the high heels?” —Sonia Rykiel
11. “You gotta have style. It helps you get down the stairs. It helps you get up in the morning. It’s a way of life. Without it, you’re nobody. I’m not talking about lots of clothes.” —Diana Vreeland
12. “Fashion is very important. It is life-enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.” —Vivienne Westwood
13. “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
14. “The dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress.” —Hubert de Givenchy
15. “I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect, they are much more interesting.” —Marc Jacobs
16. “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
17. “People will stare. Make it worth their while.” —Harry Winston
18. “Shoes transform your body language and attitude. They lift you physically and emotionally.” —Christian Louboutin
19. “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” —Coco Chanel
20. “We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.” —Yves Saint Laurent
21. “Elegance is not standing out, but being remembered.” —Giorgio Armani
22. “The hardest thing in fashion is not to be known for a logo, but to be known for a silhouette.” —Giambattista Valli
23. “I want people to see the dress, but focus on the woman.” —Vera Wang
24. “I make clothes, women make fashion.” —Azzedine Alaïa
25. “Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who’s wearing it.” —Yves Saint Laurent
26. “Whoever said that money can’t buy happiness, simply didn’t know where to go shopping.” —Bo Derek
27. “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
28. “I don’t do fashion. I am fashion.” —Coco Chanel
29. “The joy of dressing is an art.” —John Galliano
30. “The best things in life are free. The second best are very expensive.” —Coco Chanel