| "Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume." Vera Wang |
| "I'm usually very attracted to things that I can't define. If something's too clear, it's very often not inspiring to me anymore." Raf Simons |
| "When you focus on the consumer, the consumer responds." Alexander Wang |
| "Fashion has always been a repetition of ideas, but what makes it new is the way you put it together." Carolina Herrera |
| "I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don't know where it's going to lead me, but I follow it." Grace Jones |
| "I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing." Ralph Lauren |
| "I sometimes feel that a pattern is almost a fashion statement in itself." Jil Sander |
| "I always loved designing, but the context needs to be right, and have a positive perspective." Hedi Slimane |
| "One thing that is exciting about fashion is the surprise element. People don't know what they want. They just know when they see it." Marc Jacobs |
| "About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs." Manolo Blahnik |
| "Fashion and interior design are one and the same." Iris Apfel |
| "I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good." Vivienne Westwood |
| "I think fashion takes itself way too seriously. It's just fashion, people. It's just clothes. It should be frivolous and fun. You're not meant to see it as church and pray to a blouse." Jeremy Scott |
| "Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions." Coco Chanel |
| "I'm a multidimensional person and that's the freedom of fashion: that you're able to reinvent yourself through how you dress and how you cut your hair or whatever." Emma Watson |
| "I love clothes. Maybe I can say I don't love fashion, but I love clothes completely." Miuccia Prada |
| "Fashion is much more collaborative than one might think. You have to have an idea and vision, and you have to communicate that vision to a team of people, and you have to create an environment that allows those people to give the best that they can give." Tom Ford |
| "Your name is a funny thing. It stands for what you're about, and everything I do is really about pride." Tom Ford |
| "I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality." Frida Kahlo |
| "Fashion is chaotic, and it can be an aggravation, too, but it is at its best when it allows you to express yourself." John Malkovich |
| "I want to create a market where people from all walks of life can encounter each other in an atmosphere of beautiful chaos, the coming together of kindred souls." Rei Kawakubo |
| "Fashion is like eating, you shouldn't stick with the same menu." Kenzo Takada |
| "Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart." Miuccia Prada |
| "With imagination and personal creativity, people who sew can design the way they look to suit themselves." Issey Miyake |
| "When you put on clothes that are fighting against something, you can feel your courage grow. Clothing can set you free." Rei Kawakubo |
| "My design is no design." Issey Miyake |
| "Music and fashion combined make such a lethal weapon in my opinion." Jeremy Scott |
| "Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past." Lana Del Rey |
| "Fashion breaks my heart." Kanye West |
| "Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person." Zaha Hadid |
