Chic Fashion Quotes & Sayings

I like to look casual yet chic. I love high fashion, vintage, and places like Zara, of course. — Martha Hunt

There is no word in English for chic. Why should there be? Everything chic is by legend French. Perhaps everything chic is in reality French. — Elizabeth Hawes

With her first Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,' Rooney Mara gave fashion fans a new Gothic-chic muse. — Derek Blasberg

Simplicity survives the changes of fashion. Women of chic are wearing now dresses they bought from me in 1936. Fit the century, forget the year. — Valentina

Never use the word "cheap". Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans - it's up to you. — Karl Lagerfeld

I kind of had an idea that New York would be like Fashion Week, where everyone always looks incredibly chic and cool, and I wouldn't fit in. — Carey Mulligan

Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive — Karl Lagerfeld

Being chic not only takes a great deal of money but an enormous amount of time. It practically precludes everything else, even being on charity committees. Half of one's time goes getting chic, the other half being seen that way. — Elizabeth Hawes

A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul — Karl Lagerfeld

Chic rarely bothers to leave the Rue De Faubourg Saint-Honore. — Tyne O'Connell

I want to make affordable shoes of quality that are very fashion forward, chic, and that I'm going to wear. — Zendaya

The tradition of the new. Yesterday's avant-gard-experiment is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche. — Richard Hofstadter

Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English
but are great in remembering signs — Karl Lagerfeld

I want to spend as much time as possible with my children, so I always like to keep my beauty and fashion routines effortless ... but still chic! — Liya Kebede

You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur — Karl Lagerfeld

In July 1964 an alleged incident involving Paco Rabanne rocked the
model community to its foundations. The innovative Spanish-born designer
had used black beauties in his Paris show to model his futuristic
plastic dresses, a move that enraged the American fashion press. According
to Rabanne in Barbara Summers's book Skin Deep, things got
out of hand backstage after the show. 'I watched them coming,' he said,
'the girls from American Vogue and Harper's Bazaar. "Why did you do
that?" they said. "You don't have the right to do that, to take those kind
of girls. Fashion is for us, white people." They spat in my face. I had to
wipe it off.' Rabanne was subsequently blacklisted by the fashion cartels
until black runway models finally became chic in the 1970s. — Ben Arogundade

I love and admire everyone who is different. I love that. The 'jet set' is banal. 'Good taste' is banal. Eccentricity is chic. Good taste paralyzes. But punk or street fashion or a tattoo-covered body, that is interesting to me, and that I love. I didn't go to fashion school. I learned from watching couture shows on TV and reading magazines. That made me dream. — Jean Paul Gaultier

Berlinerinnen also continue to reinvent Berlin fashion. Women like Claudia Skoda, c.neeon (Clara Kraetsch and Doreen Schultz), Stadtkluft (Claudine Brignot of urbanspeed and Sandra Siewert of s.wert) and Natascha Loch carry on the tradition of Berliner Chic and carry its meanings into today's fashion. Berlinerinnen will always be ready to wear: the women who live in the city, are photographed in its streets, wear local brands and give Berlin fashion its reputation as exigeant and schraeg. Without all of these women, there would be no Berliner Chic, and so it is to them that this project is dedicated. — Katrina Sark

Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn't. — Karl Lagerfeld

Aside from infrequent comments ("Cheer up, love," or "It's not Hallo'ween"), no one wondered why a teenager was dressed up as a chic governess. Sylvie approved of Miri, even at the same time as she was confused by her. "It's a style at least," she said, and took off her rope of pearls and looped them around Miri's neck. — Helen Oyeyemi

I'm ghetto chic, I'm where the hood and high fashion meet — Teyana

Chic is a combination of style and fashion. — Elizabeth Hawes

I always feel that if you're gonna be uncomfortable and unhappy in something, just because you think it's in or it's chic, I would advise you to be happy rather than well-dressed. It's better to be happy. — Iris Apfel

All a woman needs to be chic is a raincoat, two suits, a pair of trousers and a cashmere sweater — Hubert De Givenchy