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The fashion world can be a confusing and reckless place, so sometimes it helps to turn to those who have fought all these battles before. The people included in this list are all eloquent enough to have produced amazing soundbites that offer words of enlightenment, point out the subtleties of style, or celebrate what we all love.
Click through to read Oscar Wilde laying down the dandy law, Sid Vicious making one final request, and learn what Coco Chanel and A$AP Rocky have in common. Whether you need some inspiration or just knowledge to drop at the next cocktail party you go to, here are The 25 Best Fashion Quotes.
Sailor Ripley in Wild at Heart
"This here jacket represents a symbol of my individuality and my belief in personal freedom."
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Homer Simpson
"Marge, I can't wear a pink shirt to work. Everybody wears white shirts. I'm not popular enough to be different!"
Honoré de Balzac
"The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed."
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Fred Astaire
"I often take a brand-new suit or hat and throw it up against the wall a few times to get that stiff, square newness out of it."
William Battie
"Style is when they're running you out of town and you make it look like you're leading the parade."
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Mark Twain
"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
Charles Bukowski
"Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art."
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Beau Brummel
"If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed, but either too stiff, too tight, or too fashionable."
Seth in Superbad
"Nobody has gotten a hand job in cargo shorts since 'nam!"
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Batman and Lucuis Fox in The Dark Knight
Batman: "I need a new suit."
Lucius Fox: "Yeah, three buttons is a little '90's, Mr. Wayne."
Ralph Lauren
"I don't design clothes. I design dreams."
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Oscar Wilde
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
Marc Jacobs
"To me, clothing is a form of self-expression - there are hints about who you are in what you wear."
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Leo Tolstoy
"Why nowadays there's a new fashion every day."
Isaac Bashevis Singer
"What a strange power there is in clothing."
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Tiger Woods
"Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes."
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Karl Lagerfeld
"A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul."
Yves Saint-Laurent
"Fashions fade, style is eternal."
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Yohji Yamamoto
"Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy - but mysterious. But above all black says this: 'I don't bother you - don't bother me.'"
Pete Wentz
"These jeans looked so good on me when I looked in the mirror I wanted to fuck myself."
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Oscar Wilde
"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
Orson Welles
"Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn."
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Coco Chanel
"I don't do fashion. I am fashion."
Sid Vicious
"Please bury me next to my baby in my leather jacket, jeans and motorcycle boots. Goodbye."
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