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"Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped adolescence but of those who have already taken control of their future" - Coco Chanel

Hail to the Queen

Absolutely no one in the history of American fashion as well as international fashion has possessed quite the influence or power of Anna Wintour. Editor-in-chief of the fashion journalism giant Vogue, Wintour is responsible for being the igniting force behind many presently famous designers today. For a woman inundated daily by all things fashion and glamour, she herself has maintained a consistent and conservative image. With her blond pageboy bob and her ubiquitous dark large sunglasses, she is a constant fixture in all of the fashion shows and fashion weeks that occur around the world. Seen by some as an "ice queen", others respect Anna Wintour's continuous rational, objective, and driven nature which has obviously produced the great fruits of Vogue Magazine we see today. We've got some of the best Anna Wintour quotes lined up today in homage to the woman whose raison d'etre has inspired a generation of fashion enthusiasts and fostered creativity.

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The Top 10 Fashion Quotes

Fashion, like architecture, painting, and sculpture, is an art form. It submits to and follows the principles of design: line, shape, color, rhythm, movement, emphasis, and unity. A designer, like any artist, may create a work with a specific purpose in mind and input elements to convey that purpose, but they cannot specifically know what part of their work the public will interpret or what messages they might garner from its analysis. In the many philosophies of fashion, individuals have stated some of the most insightful words that help give meaning to the sometimes amorphous discipline of fashion as well as art at large. Here are our top ten quotes that sum up the true meaning of fashion.

1. "Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months" - Oscar Wilde
2. "Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence but of those who have already taken control of their future" - Coco Chanel
3. "Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time" - Jean Cocteau
4. "Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt" - Elsa Schiaparelli
5. "The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it" - Diana Vreeland
6. "Elegance is good taste plus a dash of darling" - Carmel Snow
7. "Glamour is what makes a man ask for your telephone number. But it is also what makes a woman ask for the name of your dressmaker" - Lilly Dache
8. "A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you." -Françoise Sagan
9. "Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets." -Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
10. "Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse." -Will Rogers