1. "I prefer the woman to the clothes. I prefer someone to say I look beautiful than to ask what I'm wearing. Sometimes the worst looks give me the best ideas. I learn it's not bad to put heels with jogging bottoms. Flowers with checks. I am the observatrice – I always keep looking. Not judging." – Carine Roitfeld
2. "Vulgarity is a very important ingredient in life. I'm a great believer in vulgarity- if it's got vitality. A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste- it's hearty, it's healthy, it's physical. I think we could use more of it. No taste is what I'm against." - Diana Vreeland
3. "I think there is beauty in everything. What "normal" people would perceive as ugly, I can usually see something of beauty in it." - Alexander McQueen
4. "People care more about trends now than they do about style. They get so wrapped up in what's happening that they forget how to dress, and they never learn who they are because they never learn how to take care of anything. So much of what my generation was taught regarding clothes was how to make them last. How to wash and care for them." - writer Fran Lebowitz
5. "My relationship with fashion has always been that each of us stars in our own movies and costumes ourselves to play the part we want. You take blouses and jeans and dresses, and you put them together and they tell your story." – Marc Jacobs
6. "Nothing was considered so common as to be dressed in the height of fashion." - writer Nancy Mitford
7. "Character. Intelligence. Strength. Style. That makes beauty. All these attributes form beauty, and personality, that elusive state of being that is not necessarily perfect. "Beauty is perfect in its imperfections." It is our imperfections that make us different." - Diane von Furstenberg in her book, The Woman I Wanted to Be
8. "I am not a big fan of women being sexualised through clothes, as you can probably tell from my work. I have no problem with a woman wearing anything as long as she has chosen to wear it for herself. But I do think there are too many images of women that are sexualised and too many examples of women dressing for other people and disempowering themselves in the process." - Celine's Phoebe Philo
9. "My idea of beauty is a little bit wrong. It's something hidden that you understand as something to be discovered. If you aren't perfect you are much more beautiful." - Gucci's Alessandro Michele
