Fashionably Speaking...

"In difficult times fashion is always outrageous."

~Elsa Schiaparelli, Italian Fashion Designer

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Fashionably Speaking...

"I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny."

~Coco Chanel, French Fashion Designer

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Fashionably Speaking...

"The dress is a vase which the body follows. My clothes are like modules in which bodies move."

~Pierre Cardin, Italian-born, French fashion designer


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Fashionably Speaking..

"The best color in the whole world, is the one that looks good, on you!"

~Coco Chanel, French Fashion Designer

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Fashionably Speaking...

"I don't do fashion, I am fashion."

~Coco Chanel, French Fashion Designer

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Fashionably Speaking...

"We must never confuse elegance with snobbery."

~Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer

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Fashionably Speaking...

"There is no fashion for the old."

~Coco Chanel, French Fashion Designer

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Fashionably Speaking..

"I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet."

~Giorgio Armani, Italian Fashion Designer

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Fashionably Speaking...

"People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive."

~Calvin Klein, American Fashion Designer

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Fashionably Speaking...

"The difference between style and fashion is quality."

~Giorgio Armani, Italian Fashion Designer

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Fashionably Speaking...

"When in doubt, wear red."

~Bill Blass, American Fashion Designer

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Fashionably Speaking...

"A woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed"

~Coco Chanel, French Fashion Designer

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Fashionably Speaking...

"Style is primarily a matter of instinct."

~Bill Blass, American Fashion Designer

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Fashionably Speaking...

"Elegance is a question of personality, more than one's clothing."

~Jean-Paul Gaultier, French Fashion Designer

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Fashionably Speaking...

"A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future."

~Coco Chanel, French Fashion Designer

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Fashionably Speaking...

"Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman's jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with."

~Karl Lagerfeld, German-born French Fashion Designer

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Fashionably Speaking...

"The dress is a vase which the body follows. My clothes are like modules in which bodies move."

~Pierre Cardin, French Fashion Designer

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Fashionably Speaking...

"Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of the future, and should never be static."

~Oleg Cassini, French-born, American Fashion Designer

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Fashionably Speaking...

"I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny."

~Coco Chanel, French Fashion Designer

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Fashionably Speaking...

"The goal I seek is to have people refine their style through my clothing without having them become victims of fashion."

~Giorgio Armani, Italian Fashion Designer

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