A second set of style musings and sage advice from the most quotable names in fashion
"The best fashion show is definitely on the street. Always has been, and always will be." —Bill Cunningham
"Women who wear black lead colorful lives." —Neiman Marcus
"All my life I've pursued the perfect red." —Diana Vreeland
"The most beautiful makeup for a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy." —Yves Saint Laurent
"I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in diamonds." —Mae West
"The best things in life are free. The second best are very expensive." —Coco Chanel
"I've always thought of accessories as the exclamation point of a woman's outfit." —Michael Kors
"Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick." —Gwyneth Paltrow
"You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur." —Karl Lagerfeld
"I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet." —Giorgio Armani
"Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality." —Alexander McQueen
"Style is wearing an evening dress to McDonald's, wearing heels to play football. It is personality, confidence and seduction." —John Galliano
"Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going." —Andy Warhol
"If I think about it too much, I can't get dressed." —Daphne Guinness
"Buy less, choose well." —Vivienne Westwood
"Luxury bags make your life more pleasant, make you dream, give you confidence, and show your neighbors you're doing well." —Karl Lagerfeld
"There is a shade of red for every woman." —Audrey Hepburn
"As far as I'm concerned, leopard is a neutral." —Jenna Lyons
"Real elegance is everywhere, especially in the things that don't show." —Christian Dior
"Let the others have the beauty. I've got the charisma." —Carine Roitfeld
"Treat your makeup like jewelry for the face." —Francois Nars
"Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony." —Coco Chanel
"Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick and pull yourself together." —Elizabeth Taylor
"I design for the woman who loves being a woman." —Diane von Furstenberg
"Dressing well is a form of good manners." —Tom Ford
"It's really hard to walk in a single woman's shoes. That's why we need really special ones now and then to make the walk a little more fun." —Carrie Bradshaw
"If you wear things you adore, you just look better." —Margherita Missoni
"I can be naked as long as I'm wearing the right pair of shoes." —Anna Dello Russo
"Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping." —Oscar Wilde
"I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear." —Katharine Hepburn
"Trendy is the last stage before tacky." —Karl Lagerfeld
"If your hair is done properly and you're wearing good shoes, you can get away with anything." —Iris Apfel
"I like being a woman, even in a man's world. After all, men can't wear dresses, but we can wear the pants." —Whitney Houston
"If I'm going dancing, then I wear the highest heels with the shortest dress." —Kate Moss
"I make clothes, women make fashion." —Azzedine Alaia
"Pearls are always appropriate." —Jackie Kennedy Onassis
"Do you prefer fashion victim or ensembly challenged?" —Cher Horowitz
"My fashion advice is to have a flattering mirror and then forget about it." —Vivienne Westwood
"A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting." —Christian Dior
"Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves, and of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys, they'd just walk around naked at all times." —Betsey Johnson
"I want to die with my blue jeans on." —Andy Warhol
"Do I make fashion mistakes? Yes, but I won't say what." —Domenico Dolce
"Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women." —Elsa Schiaparelli
"You can never be too rich or too thin." —Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
"I actually used to smile a lot in pictures. I think I only stopped smiling when I got into fashion. Fashion stole my smile!" —Victoria Beckham
"A relationship is like couture—if it doesn't fit perfectly, it's a disaster." —Carrie Bradshaw
"I think in black." —Gareth Pugh
"You're never too old to play. You're only too old for low-rise jeans." —Ellen Degeneres
"Anything is possible with sunshine and a little pink." —Lilly Pulitzer
"I adore artifice. I always have." —Diana Vreeland
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