“Fashions fade, style is eternal.”
I wanted to start this article with the famous phrase of Yves Saint Laurent, to open this section of my blog. And that is exactly the topic that I want to talk about in this section: how to use our style to enhance our self-confidence. So this style quotes might help you.
Our way of looking can be a perfect ally and a powerful weapon to attract success and fulfillment to our lives.
Our style enhances our self-esteem since we want to look beautiful before our eyes, at least. It doesn’t matter your race, your sexual preference, or your culture. Feeling beautiful helps us move through life with confidence.
That is why today, I want to share these famous phrases about style. So you can see that even the greatest fashionist in history agree that having style is much more than spending millions on the latest fashion trend.
Famous phrases about style.
“Style is primarily a matter of instinct.” – Bill Blass
“A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.” – Vera Wang
“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.” – Coco Chanel
“A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste—it’s hearty, it’s healthy, it’s physical. I think we could use more of it. No taste is what I’m against.” – Diana Vreeland
“I really would not call myself a fashion icon. I would call myself somebody who gets dressed by professionals… I would call me more of a monkey.” – Jennifer Lawrence
“I’ve always thought of accessories as the exclamation point of a woman’s outfit.” – Michael Kors
“When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today.’”– Caitlin Moran
“Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves, of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys, they’d just walk around naked at all times.” – Betsey Johnson
“Clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them.” – Marc Jacobs
“The dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress.” – Hubert de Givenchy
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
“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
Style is more than having a full wardrobe.
“Real style is never right or wrong. It’s a matter of being yourself on purpose.” – G. Bruce Boyer
“Over the years, I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.” – Yves Saint Laurent
“Clothes are like a good meal, a good movie, great pieces of music.” – Michael Kors
“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.” – Gianni Versace
“Fashion has to reflect who you are, what you feel at the moment and where you’re going.” – Pharrell Williams
“I don’t do fashion. I am fashion.” – Coco Chanel
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
“Make it simple, but significant.” – Don Draper
Your style is who you are.
“A great dress can make you remember what is beautiful about life.” – Rachel Roy
“People will stare. Make it worth their while.” – Harry Winston
“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street; fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening. – Coco Chanel
“When you don’t dress like everybody else, you don’t have to think like everybody else.” –Iris Apfel
“Buy less, choose well.” – Vivienne Westwood
“Style is very personal. It has nothing to do with fashion. Fashion is over quickly. Style is forever.” – Ralph Lauren
“Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring.” – Diana Vreeland
Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak. —Rachel Zoe
“If I can have any impact, I want women to feel good about themselves and have fun with fashion.” – Michelle Obama
“You can have anything you want in life, if you dress for it.” – Edith Head
There is no wrong style.
“In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” —Coco Chanel
“Being well dressed hasn’t much to do with having good clothes. It’s a question of good balance and good common sense.” —Oscar de la Renta
“The best things in life are free. The second best are very expensive.” —Coco Chanel
“I think our bodies are beautiful, and I think celebrating them and being comfortable in them—no matter what age you are—is important. There shouldn’t be any kind of shame or discomfort around it.” —Jennifer Aniston
“As a woman gets older, it’s more about style than fashion. A woman knowing herself more and more, and looking for new things, is getting into her own personal style, being more than just a fashion addict. I’m interested in that.” —Nicolas Ghesquière
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.”—Alber Elbaz
Having style has more to do with your attitude.
“I think we all know boldness when we see it. Nothing makes me smile more than when I see someone being fully themselves, with their own individual style and character, whatever that is.” —Angelina Jolie
“Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they notice the woman.” —Coco Chanel
“Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.”
― Audrey Hepburn
“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn”
― Orson Welles
“Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.” ―Anna Wintour
“Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step.”― Karl Lagerfeld
