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Quotes About Style

The problem with wearing a dress is that it clashes with a sword.
~ Unknown
He was wearing a plain white oxford unbuttoned over a T-shirt, but something about the way they fit made him look put together, like an Abercrombie model (well, like an Abercrombie model who had remembered to put on a shirt that morning).
~ Claire LaZebnik
o que é a vida senão uma parada de modas?
~ Clarice Lispector
Life really just barely escapes me though the certainty comes to me that life is other and has a hidden style
~ Clarice Lispector
Age and use do not make a style obsolete in the church as they do in secular entertainment; rather, they consecrate it.
~ Unknown
I design for myself and the first question I ask is, 'Would I wear it?'
~ Claudia Schiffer
The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst.
~ Clifton Fadiman
If you're wearing it to 'da club, you shouldn't be wearing it to 'da office.
~ Clinton Kelly
The eternal, not the modern, is what I love: the modern will be antiquated and grotesque in ten years, when the fashion passes. —MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO
~ Clive James
I still get so impatient with the whole time-consuming business of covering up exposed skin that I will buy the first thing that catches my eye, and that when it comes to shoes the first thing that catches your eye is the last thing you should ever put on your feet.
~ Clive James
It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.
~ Coco Chanel
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
~ Coco Chanel
I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.
~ Coco Chanel
Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.
~ Coco Chanel
Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
~ Coco Chanel
A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion
~ Coco Chanel
Fashion changes, but style endures.
~ Coco Chanel
Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!
~ Coco Chanel
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.
~ Coco Chanel
A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
~ Coco Chanel
Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.
~ Coco Chanel
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
~ Coco Chanel
A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
~ Coco Chanel
Fashion does not exist unless it goes down into the streets.
~ Coco Chanel