Explore a collection of the most beloved and motivational quotes and sayings about Clothing. Share these powerful messages with your loved ones on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, or on your personal blog, and inspire the world with their wisdom. We've compiled the Top 100 Clothing Quotes and Sayings from 84 influential authors, including Diane Von Furstenberg,Diana Gabaldon,Joan Crawford,Yves Saint-Laurent,Ashley Tisdale, for you to enjoy and share.

Fashion is a mysterious energy, a visual moment-impossible to predict where it goes, By Diane Von Furstenberg Fashion Energy Mysterious Visual Momentimpossible

breeches and a rough smock By Diana Gabaldon Breeches Smock Rough

Choose your clothes for your way of life. By Joan Crawford Choose Life Clothes

When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen. A good clothing is a passport for happiness. By Yves Saint-Laurent Happen Good Clothing Feel Happiness

I love clothes and I love fashion. By Ashley Tisdale Love Fashion Clothes

Clothing was magic. Casey believed this. She would never admit this to her classmates in any of her women's studies courses, but she felt that an article of clothing could change a person ... Each skirt, blouse, necklace, or humble shoe said something - certain pieces screamed, and others whispered seductively, but no matter, she experienced each item's expression keenly, and she loved this world. every article suggested an image, a life, a kind of woman, and Casey felt drawn to them. (Free Food For Millionaires, p.41). By Min Jin Lee Magic Casey Clothing Felt Article

It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression. By Tadashi Yanai Clothes Parts Expression Combine Differently

Fashion is such stuff as dreams are made on ... By Anna Dello Russo Fashion Stuff Dreams Made

I watch clothes on other people, and it's like having a conversation before opening your mouth. For me, clothes come from the mind. They represent what's happening inside, and as long as they feel honestly like what I'm thinking about and going toward, I'm happy to bounce around and experience different things. By Brie Larson People Mouth Clothes Watch Conversation

For me, clothes mean self-expression. You need to have an audience and connect with people. Fashion is shared. It connects people. And we share an experience beyond the clothes. By Anna Dello Russo Selfexpression People Clothes Fashion Shared

Garments are our second skin, and the truer of the two for being the one we choose. By A.e. Marling Garments Skin Choose Truer

Fashion is not simply a matter of clothes. Fashion is in the air, born upon the wind. One intuits it. It is in the sky and on the road. By Coco Chanel Fashion Clothes Simply Matter Air

As for clothing, to come at once to the practical part of the question, perhaps we are led oftener by the love of novelty, and a regard for the opinions of men, in procuring it, than by a true utility. Let him who has work to do recollect that the object of clothing is, first, to retain the vital heat, and secondly, in this state of society, to cover nakedness, and he may judge how much of any necessary or important work may be accomplished without adding to his wardrobe. By Henry David Thoreau Question Novelty Men Utility Clothing

Fashion designers only occasionally tread outside the realm of clothes as pure commodity. When they do, the results are often a muddled, self-conscious message. By Robin Givhan Fashion Commodity Designers Occasionally Tread

Clothes have memories, and sometimes you don't want to remember. People remember where they bought the clothes, who gave them, or where they stole them from. By Sam Worthington Memories Clothes Remember People Bought

I'm not one for wardrobe. By Shirley Maclaine Wardrobe

Clothing gave you comfort, a sense of security and individuality, or just something to hide within. By removing it from the equation, by stripping a person down to their bare essence, it keeps you off guard, humbled and subdued By Johnny Stone Clothing Comfort Individuality Gave Sense

My constant goal is to create clothing that applies to the lifestyle of my customers. My clothing must be aesthetically pleasing in color, texture, and construction. Rapid changes are a part of fashion, and the demands of the industry are that I remain fluid and versatile. But my aesthetic requirements will always be the same. By Leon Max Customers Clothing Constant Goal Create

Fashion is all about eventually becoming naked By Rene Konig Fashion Naked Eventually

Colorful garments - ball gowns, kimonos, evening pajamas - made from yards upon yards of iridescent silk or velvet. I own an unjustifiable number of such outfits and jump at the chance to wear them. Against the etiquette about which I am otherwise all too conscious, I frequently, and unrepentantly, overdress for the occasion. By Julia Glass Kimonos Yards Colorful Garments Ball

The apparel oft proclaims the man By William Shakespeare Man Apparel Oft Proclaims

The wardrobe is always the last piece of the puzzle. When you step into the clothing, that's the final step to figuring out that character. By Mia Wasikowska Puzzle Wardrobe Piece Step Clothing

Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story. By Mason Cooley Clothes Statement Make Costumes Story

Clothes can suggest, persuade, connote, insinuate, or indeed lie, and apply subtle pressure while their wearer is speaking frankly and straightforwardly of other matters. By Anne Hollander Persuade Connote Insinuate Clothes Suggest

I would say that clothes are an excuse for living in the world. By Miuccia Prada World Clothes Excuse Living

Any item in your wardrobe should satisfy one of two criteria: utility and joy. By Stacy London Criteria Utility Joy Item Wardrobe

Clothing creates the illusion that bodies fit an aesthetically pleasing norm. And that illusion depends on getting the fit right. Garments that bunch, pull, or sag call attention to figure flaws and often make people look worse than they would without clothes. By Virginia Postrel Clothing Norm Illusion Fit Creates

The clothes don't have to suit you; you have to suit the clothes. By Karl Lagerfeld Clothes Suit

Clothing, right from our first direct evidence twenty thousand years ago, has been the handiest solution to conveying social messages visually, silently, continuously. By E. J. W. Barber Clothing Silently Continuously Ago Visually

Fashion is about good energy. It's about feelings. That's what I have to give the people, good energy and good feelings. By Adriana Lima Fashion Good Feelings Energy People

Dressing is a way of life. By Yves Saint-Laurent Dressing Life

Clothing is always a tool that helps me take a picture. But it's never about the clothing. By Carine Roitfeld Picture Clothing Tool

My clothes are put together out of different basic elements so that a woman can express the way she wants to look, transform, metamorphosize herself not as the woman I decided but as she herself wants to be. By Sonia Rykiel Transform Metamorphosize Woman Clothes Put

It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without a choice of fabric - without a practical or visual reality. By Giorgio Armani Abstract Eyes Drawings Fabric Reality

I love fashion! I love clothes! By Elle Fanning Fashion Love Clothes

When I was a young boy, growing up in Durham, North Carolina, the women in my family were truly passionate about their clothes; nothing was more beautiful to me than women dressing with the utmost, meticulous attention to accessories, shoes, handbags, hats, coats, dresses and gloves to attend Sunday church services. By Andre Leon Talley Shoes Handbags Hats Coats Durham

Clothing is a wrapper, it means nothing. Your worth is measured by your actions and the words you speak. By Bridget Blackwood Clothing Wrapper Speak Worth Measured

The soul of this man is his clothes. By William Shakespeare Clothes Soul Man

Exhibitionism and a nervous wish for concealment, for anonymity, thus battle inside the buyer of any piece of clothing. By Elizabeth Bowen Exhibitionism Concealment Anonymity Clothing Nervous

In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable. By Christian Dior Age Dressmaking Human Personal Inimitable

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality. By Karl Lagerfeld Fashion Reality Language Creates Clothes

Perhaps part of the uncanny allure of fashionable clothing resides in the paradoxical impact of its expressiveness: the act of covering up with mere dead matter--cloth, fur, leather, or even metal when it is ingeniously shaped to the purpose--appears to reveal something magical about the life inside. By Joseph Roach Cloth Fur Leather Expressiveness Matter

I wear things that kind of can look good for extended periods of time - fabrics that don't wrinkle, things that don't stain very easily. By Rachel Zoe Things Time Fabrics Wrinkle Easily

sartorial splendor with a long, speculative survey By Dana Stabenow Sartorial Long Speculative Survey Splendor

I wanted to create things that you can always pull out of your closet and rely on. I wanted to create a timeless, classic collection of clothing that you can keep expanding on. By L'wren Scott Wanted Create Things Pull Closet

her jeans and sleeveless blouse. By Nicholas Sparks Blouse Jeans Sleeveless

Clothes are expensive. You have to buy them, and to buy them, you have to believe in them. By Jean Paul Gaultier Clothes Expensive Buy

Clothing totally changes my perception of how I feel about myself depending on what it is that I'm wearing. By Brie Larson Clothing Wearing Totally Perception Feel

Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct. By Edith Head Fashion Language Instinct Learn

Every day our garments become more assimilated to ourselves, receiving the impress of the wearer's character, until we hesitate tolay them aside without such delay and medical appliances and some such solemnity even as our bodies. By Henry David Thoreau Receiving Character Bodies Day Garments

The erotic element always present in fashion, the kiss of loving labor on the body, is now overtly expressed by language. Belts hug or clasp; necklines plunge; jerseys bind. The word exciting tingles everywhere. By Mary Mccarthy Fashion Body Language Erotic Element

Clothes is just something you put on to cover yourself ... fashion is a way to communicate. By Dries Van Noten Clothes Put Cover Fashion Communicate

Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us. By Virginia Woolf Vain Clothes Warm Trifles Important

Over the course of the years, I've learned [that] fashion is a fascinating business about selling magic. It is done on the backs of our optimism and our insecurity. It is as much psychology as commerce. But I've also learned that every day we make split second decisions about people based on their attire and those decisions can have powerful implications - see the story of Trayvon Martin and his hoodie. It's important for us to understand how fashion works and how we connect to it. By Robin Givhan Years Magic Fascinating Business Selling

The element of fashion I'd like to see more often? Clothes that fit people well. For me it's not so much about the clothes. By Tim Gunn Element Fashion Clothes Fit People

There are so many images out there, so many clothes out there, and the only ones that look interesting to me are the ones that look slightly mistaken. By Isaac Mizrahi Mistaken Images Clothes Interesting Slightly

I always want to make sure that I am wearing what I love. What makes you feel good. And you're not wearing for anyone else but yourself. By Sarah Lafleur Love Wearing Good Make Makes

As you get older and fatter, good clothes can hide a lot. By Graydon Carter Fatter Good Lot Older Clothes

Life is competitive; clothes gird us for the competition. By Edith Head Life Competitive Clothes Competition Gird

Clothing, and the products that you buy, are really about how they make you feel. By Chad Hurley Clothing Buy Feel Products Make

The clothes I like are not necessarily tailored. By Greg Lynn Tailored Clothes Necessarily

It is impossible to be completely abstract about clothes because they have no life unless they are worn. They must fit onto a body or they do not exist. By Elizabeth Hawes Worn Impossible Completely Abstract Clothes

Give a real meaning to what you wear; wear what has a real meaning. By Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Real Meaning Give Wear

I've always believed that clothing is a great way to tell your story. By Carson Kressley Story Believed Clothing Great

I'm drunk when it comes to clothes. By Nan Kempner Clothes Drunk

fashioned of flowing silk or jersey, By Anderson Cooper Fashioned Jersey Flowing Silk

What is fashion? It's discipline. Discipline and a credo to do only the best, down to the smallest detail. By Manolo Blahnik Fashion Discipline Detail Credo Smallest

If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion By Friedrich Nietzsche Selfconcealment Fashion Reason Person Anxiety

Clothes as text, clothes as narration, clothes as a story. Clothes as the story of our lives. And if you were to gather all the clothes you have ever owned in all your life, each baby shoe and winter coat and wedding dress, you would have your autobiography. By Linda Grant Clothes Text Narration Story Lives

Fashion is the great governor of this world; it presides, not only in matters of dress and amusement, but in law, physic, politics, religion, and all other things of the gravest kind; indeed, the wisest of men would be puzzled to give any better reason why particular forms in all these have been at certain times universally received, and at others universally rejected, than that they were in or out of fashion. By Henry Fielding Physic Politics Religion Fashion Universally

I want to be the best version of myself - intellectually, emotionally, and physically. So I like to wear clothes that I feel comfortable in, that reflect that. By Gabrielle Anwar Intellectually Emotionally Physically Version Wear

Clothes are on us to expose us - to advertise what we wear them to conceal. They are a sign; a sign of insincerity; a sign of repressed vanity; By Alex Myers Sign Clothes Conceal Expose Advertise

Everyone is always asking me about clothes. By Paul F. Tompkins Clothes

Fashion can be this mysterious thing that you can't explain. By Diane Von Furstenberg Fashion Explain Mysterious Thing

Only an excellent fabric can originate an excellent fashion By Nino Cerruti Excellent Fashion Fabric Originate

I'd like to cut an attitude into clothes. By Ann Demeulemeester Clothes Cut Attitude

On every film, the clothes are half the battle in creating the character. I have a great deal of opinion about how my people are presented. We show a great deal by what we put on our bodies. By Meryl Streep Film Character Great Clothes Half

Fashion is about comfort and feeling good. By Max Azria Fashion Good Comfort Feeling

Fashion has to be about what is. By Carrie Donovan Fashion

Cuts of clothes and shapes of clothes are really important. By Bonnie Wright Clothes Cuts Important Shapes

The item of clothing that makes us feel powerful is the one that makes us feel confident and self-assured, that magically makes us look our best in all kinds of circumstances. By Valerie Steele Makes Feel Selfassured Circumstances Item

I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence. By Julian Casablancas Clothes Confidence Care Wearing Social

I love clothes! I'll wear anything from Urban Outfitters or American Apparel. By J. R. Celski Clothes Apparel Love Urban Outfitters

The costume of women should be suited to her wants and necessities. It should conduce at once to her health, comfort, and usefulness; and, while it should not fail also to conduce to her personal adornment, it should make that end of secondary importance By Amelia Bloomer Necessities Costume Women Suited Conduce

Wearing clothes should be a personal narrative of emotion. I always respond to fashion in an emotional way. By Andre Leon Talley Wearing Emotion Clothes Personal Narrative

Style is not about the clothes, it's about the individual By Alexander Mcqueen Style Clothes Individual

The clothes we wear send a message about how the world perceives us. By Tim Gunn Clothes Wear Send Message World

Fashion is what people wear not only what you see on the Runway By Karl Lagerfeld Runway Fashion People Wear

Fashion: the search for a new absurdity. By Natalie Clifford Barney Fashion Absurdity Search

Fashion is chaotic, and it can be an aggravation, too, but it is at its best when it allows you to express yourself. By John Malkovich Fashion Chaotic Aggravation Express

I don't do fashion, I'm fashion By Coco Chanel Fashion

Actors have an unusual perspective on clothing. You've really got to know the impact of what you're wearing on the character you're playing. By Kyle Maclachlan Actors Clothing Unusual Perspective Playing

People think, 'You're an actor, you can afford clothes,' but I just try to take the clothes from the movie, which makes the selecting of film projects that much more difficult, because you try to play characters that might wear something you'd want to wear. By Jesse Eisenberg Clothes Wear People Actor Movie

I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes it's about all kinds of change By Karl Lagerfeld Person Change Fashion Clothes Kinds

I think handbags, not so much clothes anymore, but I think you can tell a fashion victim by their handbag. By Joanna Lumley Anymore Handbags Handbag Clothes Fashion

Fashion is as profound and critical a part of the social life of man as sex, and is made up of the same ambivalent mixture of irresistible urges and inevitable taboos. By Rene Konig Fashion Sex Taboos Profound Critical

I'm wearing black leggings and a loose top festooned with a Menger sponge of empty pockets stitched out of smaller pockets and smaller still, almost down to the limits of visibility woven in freefall by hordes of tiny otaku spiders, I'm told, their genes programmed by an obsessive-compulsive sartorial topologist. By Charles Stross Menger Pockets Smaller Spiders Told

Throughout history, clothes represented who you were; they are a great vehicle for explaining who you are. During the Ching dynasty, for example, what you wore and how it was made reflected your status in society. People could literally read your clothes like a book, just by its color and how it was embroidered. By Iris Apfel History Represented Great Vehicle Explaining

What you wear represents you to the world, especially now, when communication between people is so fast. Fashion is a universal language that everyone understands. By Miuccia Prada World Fast Wear Represents Communication

My clothes are most comfortable as well as practical. I wear navy blue slacks and a long sleeve shirt topped with my lettered tunic. Along the edge of my tunic, both front and rear, are partitioned compartments which are hemmed up to serve as pockets. These hold all my possessions which consist of a comb, a folding toothbrush, a ball point pen, a map, some copies of my message and my mail. By Peace Pilgrim Practical Tunic Clothes Comfortable Wear