Chic Quotes

“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

“A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“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

“You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“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

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

“For everyone knows that a girl cannot live on chicken cordon blue alone.”
― Lindsay Eland, Scones and Sensibility

“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, White Is for Witching

“They [best dressed women] don’t want to look like their daughters. They want their own individual brand of chic. […] The cut and fit must be exactly right, and they are willing to spend hours in the fitting room to make sure of it. They spend money, too. But if any one of them went broke tomorrow she’d rather choose one perfectly cut expensive dress and make it do for years than buy a dozen cheap ones.”
― Joan Crawford, My Way of Life

“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, Berliner Chic: A Locational History of Berlin Fashion

“The front room of his house was what I called 'untidy chic'. Prefects weren't subject to the same Rules on room tidiness, but since no one really enjoyed clutter, a certain style of ordered untidiness was generally considered de couleur for a prefect's room.”
― Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey

“For a chic and an honorable full victory, you must make your own fight and win your own battle entirely by yourself! Try to refuse any help to get a pure victory, a victory which belongs merely to yourself!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“A real Bond girl wears so many skill hats...costumes are more like casual-chic code!”
― Tracey Bond