Quotes by Fashion Designers

I've always believed that one woman's success can only help another woman's success.

Gloria Vanderbilt

When I can no longer create anything I'll be done for.

Coco Chanel

I had an interview once with some German journalist—some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists—maybe a week after—and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, ‘It’s impolite; remove your glasses.’ I said, ‘Do I ask you to remove your bra?

Karl Lagerfeld

I have really good instincts about friends.

Nicole Richie

The older you get, the more you realize you need a handful of good, close, tight friends.

Nicole Richie

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

If you stick to something doggedly, you are off to a bad start.

Karl Lagerfeld

Fame and fortune are calling. Are we taking the call or blocking the number?

Nicole Richie

There are only two kinds of people in this world, Mr. Sallinger: people who rise above that suffering and people who let it define them." (The Ables)

Jeremy Scott

Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.

Karl Lagerfeld

Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore – and then you get something out of her

Karl Lagerfeld

It's not like I'm all into nostalgia and history, it's just that I can't stand the way things are now

Novala Takemoto

I don't even know what my natural color is. Natural? What is natural? What is that? I do not believe in totally natural for women. For me, natural has something to do with vegetables

Donatella Versace

You fueled my obession, even encouraged it and your selfishness ruined my life

Novala Takemoto

Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.

Karl Lagerfeld

Twenty-three is old. It's almost 25, which is like almost mid-20s.

Jessica Simpson

Years ago I asked my friend, the great actress Ruth Gordon, to articulate in a few words the secret to her indomitable, unsinkable spirit. Her reply was a gift that became a mantra for me:“It takes courage.It takes believing in it.It takes work.It takes rising above it.It takes me liking you, and you liking me.It takes the dreaming soul of the human race that wants it to go right.Never stop dreaming.Think about it.

Gloria Vanderbilt

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Coco Chanel

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite which I would like.

Coco Chanel

Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off.

Coco Chanel

When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, 'It's not the days that are old, it's you that's old.' I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.

Karl Lagerfeld

Women want to wear what they do because of what goes on in their heads. Their size and shape have practically nothing to do with it.

Elizabeth Hawes

A woman with good shoes i never ugly!

Coco Chanel

Paris is a heaven for all woman's obssesions: hot men, great chocolates, scrumptuous pastries, sexy lingerie, cool clothes but, as any shoe-o-phile knows, this city is a hotbed of fabulous shoes.

Kirsten Lobe

Love is not a maybe thing, you know when you love someone.

Lauren Conrad

Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.

Karl Lagerfeld

Platypus? I thought it was pronounced platymapus. Has it always been pronounced platypus?

Jessica Simpson

Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. But above all black says this: "I don’t bother you - don’t bother me".

Yohji Yamamoto

..my music isn't just music- its medicine.

Kanye West

Now is the time to become a myth.

Diane Von Furstenberg

There is no better designer than nature.

Alexander McQueen

There is a time for work, and a time for love. That leaves no other time.

Coco Chanel

I like to reinvent myself — it’s part of my job.

Karl Lagerfeld

Fashion is life-enhancing and I think it's a lovely, generous thing to do for other people

Vivienne Westwood

All I trust is the past. Things that have ended can't betray me.

Novala Takemoto

If you're sad, add more lipstick and attack!

Coco Chanel

The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself.

Diane Von Furstenberg

He says black, I say white and we do grey

Lazaro Hernandez

The only things that erased my lonliness were written works

Novala Takemoto

We don't want to push our ideas on to customers we simply want to make what they want.

Laura Ashley

If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.

Coco Chanel

Sometimes when I see a bad performance and people still clap... I wonder if they're clapping because they liked what they saw or because they're happy it's over?

Kanye West

Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

Coco Chanel

A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life.

Coco Chanel

Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite.

Karl Lagerfeld

The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven't had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there.

Yves Saint-Laurent

The visions of a healthy brain,Give us pleasure over and again;For this home was done,From the daytime dreams of one.

Omar Kiam

My design is no design.

Issey Miyake

I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.

Karl Lagerfeld

Live like there’s no tomorrow and learn as if your life depends on it

Omar Kiam

By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.

Christian Dior

Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!

Coco Chanel