- “The beauty of the soul enfold in spiritual-life.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
- “It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire… 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, Northanger Abbey
- “A woman with good shoes i never ugly!” ― Coco Chanel
- “A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul” ― Karl Lagerfeld
- “When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.” ― Karl Lagerfeld
- “No one looks or feels attractive when angry.” ― Allan Lokos, Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
- “Right/Wrong Things To Say To A Client About Updating Their LookDon’t Say… Your wardrobe is out of date.Do Say… Looking at your wardrobe, would you be interested in adding some new styles that will be perfect for the office and also carry out to a night on the town?” ― Cindy Ann Peterson, My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
- “Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore – and then you get something out of her” ― Karl Lagerfeld
- “That was when I first observed a phenomenon I now call the “New York Slide”: you offer your words to try to communicate and connect with someone, but your words just hit a brick wall the person has erected to ward off human contact- the words slide down it and roll away.” ― Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You
- “I cleaned the shit off my pink high-tops and drove home, stopping for an espresso at the coffeehouse across from the college. Men and women were hunched over copies of Jean Paul Sartre and writing in their journals. Most wore the thin-rimmed tortoiseshell glasses favored by intellectuals. Their clothes were faded to a precisely fashionable degree; you can buy them that way from catalogs now, new clothes processed to look old. The intellectuals looked at me in my overalls the way such people inevitably look at farmers. I dumped a lot of sugar in my espresso and sipped it delicately at a corner table near the door. I looked at them the way farmers look at intellectuals.” ― Mary Rose O’Reilley
- “It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s forgotten.” ― Anna Wintour
- “Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants.” ― Karl Lagerfeld
- “Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts” ― Jim Morrison
- “Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.” ― Henry David Thoreau
- “I don’t think there’s anything wrong with telling the truth. I know it isn’t fashionable.” ― craig ferguson
- “This resembled hedgehog fur so precisely that Percy, who rarely noticed fashion, was struck momentarily speechless by the shocking similarity between this hat and his mother’s Erinaceinae nature.” ― Gail Carriger, Reticence
- “The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.” ― Karl Lagerfeld
- “Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive” ― Karl Lagerfeld
- “Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.” ― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
- “My emotions reflect my my art” ― Martin M. Stupak
- “No one looks or feels attractive when angry.” ― Allan Lokos, Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
- “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
- “Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests” ― Karl Lagerfeld
- “Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.” ― Karl Lagerfeld
- “The human body is the best work of art.” ― Jess C. Scott
- “Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive” ― Karl Lagerfeld
- “Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English–but are great in remembering signs” ― Karl Lagerfeld
- “Right/Wrong Things To Say To A Client About SizeDon’t Say… You don’t fit into this store’s clothes.Do Say… This store doesn’t cater to your needs.” ― Cindy Ann Peterson, Cindy Ann Peterson’s AICI CIC Accelerator (℠): Peterson’s Power Prep Primer
- “Simplicity speaks with splendour.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita
- “Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots” ― Albert Einstein