Style Icons Quotes

The great style icons are tomboys

My personal style icon is Steve McQueen. My design style icon is a mix of everyone from Jackie O. to Lauren Hutton to my mother.

My style icon really for my whole life has been my mother.

My two style icons are Edie Sedgwick and Brigitte Bardot.

My style icons were Gwen Stefani, when she was in No Doubt, and then Shirley Manson in Garbage.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

Style is very personal. It has nothing to do with fashion. Fashion is over quickly. Style is forever.

I think because I've gotten permission from my style icons like Tim Gunn and André Leon Talley, who say to me, "You don't need to dress like anyone else, because you're your own fashion icon. You represent comfortable. And you do fashion your way, and you should be at Fashion Week." They gave me permission to enjoy it! And it's great!

The hardest thing in fashion is not to be known for a logo, but to be known for a silhouette.

I think there is beauty in everything. What 'normal' people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it.

You gotta have style. It helps you get down the stairs. It helps you get up in the morning. It's a way of life. Without it, you're nobody.

Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.

My style icon has always been my mom. I feel like she was always sophisticated and effortless and looked really well put together without trying too hard.

In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous.

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.

If you can't be better than your competition, just dress better.

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress.

The difference between style and fashion is quality.

One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

My style icons would be people like Brigitte Bardot and old Hollywood actresses who always look so stunning, cool and chic. I like classic and timeless looks.

Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.

Too much good taste can be boring

My style icon is anyone who makes a bloody effort

Blake Lively is my style icon, and she always has rocking clothes and shoes. She keeps it really simple with hair and makeup, and I try to do the same thing.

Girls don't dress for boys.

I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting.

Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves, of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys, they'd just walk around naked at all times.

Walk like you have three men walking behind you.

People will stare. Make it worth their while.

Kate Moss. She looks good in anything. She would look good in one of your t-shirts, in her t-shirt, in a man's suit, in a huge gown. She looks amazing naked. She even makes nude look stylish. That, to me, is a style icon. She could put a barrel on and it would be some sort of statement.

I didn't really know anything about Margot Fonteyn. I'd never really been a ballet child, so I had no idea what an incredibly huge icon she was, not just in terms of a creative icon - she was also a style icon. I had no idea she was up there with Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Onassis in terms of that kind of image.

Anyone can get dressed up and glamorous, but it is how people dress in their days off that are the most intriguing.

Marvin Gaye was one of the coolest. I look to him as a style icon and as an artist.

Elegance is the only beauty that never fades.

In terms of influence, my style icons have been a mixture of Julie Andrews and Olivia Newton-John. When I was little I used to watch 'Grease,' 'Mary Poppins' and 'The Sound of Music' a lot. If you put all those things together you do kind of get my outfits. A slightly tarty nanny in a second-hand outfit. That is pretty much what I wear.

You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes.

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.

Someone who I would consider an ultimate beauty and style icon would be Jennifer Lopez. She is absolutely ageless, and she has reinvented herself so many times throughout the years and yet is absolutely flawless and stays true to herself.

I don't really have a style icon but I really admire the way people dress like Gaga, Rihanna and Gwen Stefani. It's good to be inspired by singers who write music and dress incredibly - rather than models and people in the fashion industry who dress immaculately anyway because it's their style.

I think to be a true style icon, you just have to dress yourself. There are so many actresses floating around who have people picking out their outfits for them; that's hard for me to wrap my head around or celebrate.

You can have anything you want

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

Fashion is in the sky, in the street.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only.

Decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live.

Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are.

I’m elated. I guess it’s better late than never. Welcome to the 21st century. It’s fantastic. I love Dior, and Rihanna is very much one of my style icons. I’m happy they got there in the end. I adore her style. She loves fashion, she’s unafraid. She uses her imagination, which is something we should all strive to do.