Fashion is something that many people think they need to follow in order to be accepted by society. However, fashion can often be tacky and uncomfortable, and it is important to remember that you do not need to dress a certain way in order to be considered fashionable. There are plenty of other ways to express your individual style without having to sacrifice comfort or your own personal taste.
“I don’t like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.” says the legendary fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld. Here are some more quotes about being a fashion victim from famous people.
Fashion Victim Quotes
“I don’t think women should look like costumes. I don’t think they should look like fashion victims. I think these (clothes) are for women that want to look sexy. They want to look smart.” – Ralph Lauren
“A fashion victim is dressed in designer clothes from top to bottom.” – Donna Karan
“Don’t become a fashion victim is what I’m trying to say.” – Carolina Herrera
“Do you prefer ‘fashion victim’ or ‘ensembly’ challenged’?” – Alicia Silverstone
“If you wear clothes that don’t suit you, you’re a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.” – Vivienne Westwood
“I believe that if you think about what style means, you won’t become a fashion victim.” – John Varvatos
“I believe in style, not fashion.” – Ralph Lauren
“I think handbags, not so much clothes anymore but I think you can tell a fashion victim by their handbag.” – Joanna Lumley
“It’s easier to follow fashion than it is to have personal style.” – Ralph Lauren
“Fashion is what you buy, style is what you do with it.” – Nicky Hilton
“My fashion philosophy is that if I like it, I wear it.” – Nicky Hilton
“Because what the fashion industry loves, it woos – then swallows whole.” – Robin Givhan
“Fashion is not necessarily about labels. It’s not about brands. It’s about something else that comes from within you.” – Ralph Lauren
“I have my own style and don’t really follow fashion, but I like leggings. They’re easy to wear and can go with anything.” – Eva Green
“I have no ambivalence about myself wearing make-up or designer clothes but I have an enormous ambivalence about what the fashion world has done to women.” – Nan Goldin
“I believe that if you think about what style means, you won’t become a fashion victim.” – John Varvatos
“I’m not fashionable, and I know nothing about fashion, but I have my individual style, and style is eternal.” – Vidya Balan
“I’m not trying to be fashionable. Never was!.” – Dolly Parton
“I love fashion, but I’m not obsessed with it.” – Christy Turlington
“My look is relaxed, and while I love fashion, I don’t obsess about it. I don’t have set rules when it comes to dressing, and I don’t mind where my clothes are from.” – Donna Air
“Fashion fades, only style remains the same.” – Coco Chanel
“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.” – Oscar Wilde
“I don’t like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim.” – Karl Lagerfeld
“I am a slave to fashion. I love to get into what’s hot and current when I dress myself or somebody else. Usually, it’s someone else because I’m constantly working on finding the best looks for actors.” – Ruth E. Carter
“I’m not a slave to fashion; I’m into exercising my individuality.”- Sandra Oh
“I’m talkin’ about us, the new slaves, the people who love fashion. I’m talking about us, you know? ‘Cause I’m a slave to it. I love it.” – Kanye West
“An air of fashion, which is but a badge of slavery … proves that the soul has not a strong individual character.” – Mary Wollstonecraft
“Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make ourselves its slave. — Napoleon Bonaparte
“I like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion.” – Anni Frid Lyngstad
“I don’t follow fashion and I don’t follow trends, I just follow my instincts.” – Victoria Beckham
“I certainly don’t follow fashion. I think fashion, as far as the industry and the whole world that surrounds it, is quite vile, and I’m repelled by it.” – Mika
“For me, clothes are kind of character; I don’t follow fashion or understand trends.” – Meryl Streep
“I don’t really follow fashion exactly, but I’ve always been very interested in the way that you present yourself as an expression of yourself, so that’s my idea of fashion and style from a personal point of view.” – Lenora Crichlow
“Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you, but decide what you are.” – Gianni Versace
“It is always the women who are the victims of Fashion: first it’s the Tomboy, then the Gibson Girl, then the Flapper… Every six months there’s a new fashion and every time a new fashion is created, there are new victims.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Over the years, I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.” – Yves Saint Laurent
“Fashion is made to become unfashionable.” – Coco Chanel
“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.” – Coco Chanel
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