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Yves Saint Laurent -

“I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence."

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Vivienne Westwood - “Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody’s buying far too many clothes.”

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Tom Ford -

“Fashion needs to make one happy. It is a luxury and should enhance one’s quality of life.”

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Coco Chanel - "In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."

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Marc Jacobs - "Clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them."

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Christian Dior -

"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."

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Karl Lagerfeld -

“I’m a very down-to-earth person, but it is my job to make that earth more pleasant.”

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Gianni Versace -

"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 you live."

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Miuccia Prada -

“What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language.”

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

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Jean Paul Gaultier -

"Fashion is about what you look like, which translates to what you would like to be like."

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Donatella Versace - “What is comfortable fashion? To be comfortable, that can’t be in the vocabulary of fashion. If you want to be comfortable, stay home in your pajamas.”

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Alexander McQueen -

"It’s a new era in fashion–there are no rules. It’s all about the individual and personal style, wearing high-end, low-end, classic labels, and up-and-coming designers all together."

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Oscar de la Renta -

"Fashion is about dressing according to what’s fashionable. Style is more about being yourself."

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Domenico Dolce -

"I hope the people remember Dolce & Gabbana for the sensuality, for the Mediterranean sense, for our honesty to the life."

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Michael Kors -

“The greenest thing you could do in fashion is to buy something you’re going to use for years.”

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Vera Wang -

“A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.”

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

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John Galliano - "The joy of dressing is an art."

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Kenzo Takada -

"Fashion is like eating–you shouldn't stick to the same menu."

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Manolo Blahnik -

"People tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see."

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Christian Louboutin - “Cinderella is not only an iconic character when it comes to beauty, grace, and fairy-tale love, but also shoes.”

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Cristóbal Balenciaga -

"Elegance is elimination."

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Diane Von Fürstenberg -

"Style is something each of us already has–all we need to do is find it."

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Kate Spade -

“Playing dress-up begins at age five and never really ends.”

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Rachel Zoe -

"Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak."

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Victoria Beckham - “I just can’t concentrate in flats.”

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Mary Quant -

“The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.”

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Alber Elbaz -

"Style is the only thing you can’t buy. It’s not in a shopping bag, a label, or a price tag. It’s something reflected from our soul to the outside world—an emotion.”

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Betsey Johnson -

“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.”

Sources: (Glamour) (Cosmopolitan) (Harper's Bazaar)

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