80 Personal Style Quotes From Designers and Style Icons

I want to share some personal style quotes today, to motivate you as you live your style evolution. For some, personal style is intuitive, while for others, it requires trial and error to discover what truly resonates with them.

Understanding and embracing your unique style is key to feeling confident and authentic. I’ve compiled 80 personal style quotes from the world’s most influential fashion and interior designers and style icons to inspire you to embrace your individuality.

These quotes offer a blend of wisdom, humor, and insights into what makes style truly personal.

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So, how do style icons define and celebrate personal style? Get ready to be inspired and empowered to express yourself through decor and fashion.

Personal Style Quotes From Interior Designers

Welcome to a celebration of personal style, where fashion and home decorating meets self-expression! Whether you’re a trendsetter or someone who prefers timeless classics, or have no idea what your your style is yet, this guide is for you!

1. Albert Hadley: “Design is defined by light and shade, and appropriate lighting is enormously important.”
2. Billy Baldwin: “Be faithful to your own taste because nothing you really like is ever out of style.”
3. Nate Berkus: “Your home should tell the story of who you are, and be a collection of what you love.”
4. Bunny Williams: “If you love something, it will work. That’s the only real rule.”
5. Dorothy Draper: “I always put in one controversial item. It makes people talk.”
6. Elsie de Wolfe: “I am going to make everything around me beautiful—that will be my life.”
7. Charles Eames: “The details are not the details. They make the design.”
8. Kelly Wearstler: “Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum. They are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment.”
9. Miles Redd: “Buy the best, and you only cry once.”
10. David Hicks: “The best rooms have something to say about the people who live in them.”
11. Mario Buatta: “Color is the greatest gift in the world. The right colors can make you feel good, they can make you feel happy.”
12. Martyn Lawrence Bullard: “Luxury is in each detail.”
13. John Saladino: “Too often we design rooms for others and not for ourselves.”
14. Victoria Hagan: “Serenity is the key.”
15. Thomas Pheasant: “The best design is the one that makes you happy.”
16. Jean-Louis Deniot: “Elegance is an attitude, a frame of mind.”
17. Kelly Hoppen: “Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.”
18. Suzanne Kasler: “Style is a reflection of your attitude and personality.”
19. Barbara Barry: “Understatement is the rule of a fine interior.”
20. Alexa Hampton: “Decorating is not about making stage sets. It’s not about making pretty pictures for the magazines; it’s really about creating a quality of life, a beauty that nourishes the soul.”
21. Vicente Wolf: “If you’re not honest about yourself, you’re not going to be honest about your work.”
22. Michael S. Smith: “A room should never allow the eye to settle in one place. It should smile at you and create fantasy.”
23. Rose Tarlow: “I want my interiors to look collected, not decorated.”
24. Thomas O’Brien: “Decorating is a matter of personal choice. The most important thing is to make sure you enjoy the process.”
25. John Barman: “Design is coming to grips with one’s real lifestyle, one’s real place in the world. Rooms should not be put together for show but to nourish one’s well-being.”

Personal Style Quotes From Fashion Designers

26. Coco Chanel: “Fashion fades, only style remains the same.”
27. Yves Saint Laurent: “Fashions fade, style is eternal.”
28. Ralph Lauren: “Style is very personal. It has nothing to do with fashion. Fashion is over quickly. Style is forever.”
29. Tom Ford: “Dressing well is a form of good manners.”
30. Christian Dior: “You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes. Too many women think that they are unimportant, but the real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet.”
31. Karl Lagerfeld: “Trendy is the last stage before tacky.”
32. Giorgio Armani: “Elegance is not standing out, but being remembered.”
33. Oscar de la Renta: “Fashion is about dressing according to what’s fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.”
34. Alexander McQueen: “Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.”
35. Miuccia Prada: “Fashion is instant language.”
36. Donatella Versace: “Fashion is about dreaming and making other people dream.”
37. Marc Jacobs: “Clothes mean nothing until someone lives in them.”
38. Michael Kors: “I’ve always thought of accessories as the exclamation point of a woman’s outfit.”
39. Anna Wintour: “Create your own style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.”
40. Vera Wang: “A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.”
41. Vivienne Westwood: “Buy less, choose well, make it last.”
42. Jean Paul Gaultier: “Elegance is a question of personality, more than one’s clothing.”
43. Carolina Herrera: “A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.”
44. Diane von Furstenberg: “Style is something each of us already has, all we need to do is find it.”
45. Gianni Versace: “In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.”

Personal Style Quotes From Style Icons

46. Audrey Hepburn: “Elegance is the only beauty that never fades.”
47. Jackie Kennedy: “Pearls are always appropriate.”
48. Grace Kelly: “The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens.”
49. Marilyn Monroe: “Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.”
50. Diana Vreeland: “The only real elegance is in the mind; if you’ve got that, the rest really comes from it.”
51. Iris Apfel: “More is more and less is a bore.”
52. Lauren Hutton: “Fashion is what you’re offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose.”
53. Twiggy: “You can’t be sad when Daisy is around, she’s like a little ray of sunshine.”
54. Elizabeth Taylor: “It’s not the having, it’s the getting.”
55. Brigitte Bardot: “It’s better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be.”
56. Sophia Loren: “Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.”
57. Jane Birkin: “Keep smiling—it takes ten years off!”
58. Chloe Sevigny: “It’s always been my hope that I could influence others as positively as my mom influenced me.”
59. Kate Moss: “Never complain, never explain.”
60. Alexa Chung: “Fashion is a big bubble, and sometimes I feel like popping it.”
61. Victoria Beckham: “I love fashion and that’s how I express myself.”
62. Sarah Jessica Parker: “Fashion is not a luxury, it’s a right.”
63. Gisele Bündchen: “I feel grateful because I have a lot of love in my life. I found the person I’m sharing my life with, and I have good friends, and my family is really important to me.”
64. Naomi Campbell: “Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue… and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.”
65. Linda Evangelista: “I don’t diet. I just don’t eat as much as I’d like to.”
66. Cindy Crawford: “Even I don’t wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.”
67. Helena Christensen: “You have to grow. You have to be. You have to love yourself unconditionally.”
68. Carla Bruni: “Sometimes you need to put your own characteristics into the actor, and you take different things from the character that you admire—sometimes you can’t do that and it feels awful.”
69. Elle Macpherson: “If you are in a band, and you want to be successful, you need a coach.”
70. Christy Turlington: “I would have to say my favorite style icon is a cross between Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn.”

71. Coco Chanel: “In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different.”
72. Tom Ford: “Good manners and good cologne is what transforms the man into a gentleman.”
73. Ralph Lauren: “I don’t design clothes, I design dreams.”
74. Yves Saint Laurent: “I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women more beautiful but also to reassure them, give them confidence.”
75. Christian Dior: “Elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care, and simplicity.”
76. Karl Lagerfeld: “Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.”
77. Michael Kors: “To be truly stylish, it takes more than just a good eye. It takes the ability to understand your own body and have confidence in your choices.”
78. Anna Wintour: “Create your own style. Let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.”
79. Vera Wang: “When you love a person, you can see all their magic.”
80. Vivienne Westwood: “The best fashion accessory is a book.”

80 Personal Style Quotes – Conclusion

I hope these 80 personal style quotes have inspired you to embrace and celebrate your unique fashion sense.

So, take these insights from fashion’s most iconic figures and let them guide you in creating a style that is unmistakably yours. Whether you’re experimenting with new looks or refining your signature style, let your decor and fashion choices reflect your personality and confidence.