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• For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.
Christian Lacroix

• I don’t design clothes, I design dreams.
Ralph Lauren

• People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.
Ralph Lauren

• Dressing is a way of life.
Yves Saint Laurent

• Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Yves Saint Laurent

• I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
Yves Saint Laurent

• Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
Yves Saint Laurent

• Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality.
Shawn Ashmore

• Style is the image of character.
Edward Gibbon

• Fred Astaire… style! What happened to style?
Tab Hunter

• Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
Arthur Ashe

• Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it’s important.
Geoffrey Beene

• Men’s fashions all start as sports clothes and progress to the great occasions of state. The tailcoat, which started out as a hunting coat, is just finishing such a journey. The tracksuit is just beginning one.
Angus McGill

• Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain

• Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
Victor Hugo

• The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
Dante Alighieri

• Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.
Sir Cecil Beaton

• Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
George Bernard Shaw

• Fashion, by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.
Oscar Wilde

• Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
Henry Fielding

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