Donna Karan Quotes

I wear clothes reflecting the color of my soul!

Fashion is not necessarily about labels. It's not about brands. It's about something else that comes from within you.

Style is the only thing you can't buy. It's not in a shopping bag, a label, or a price tag. It's something reflected from our soul to the outside world. An emotion.

Don't dress for others, dress for yourself. Clothes should be an extension of what you represent and what you feel inside.

Just be yourself and forget all of the stuff you read in 'GQ' magazine.

The most important parts of fashion to me are confidence and expressing who I am.

I am an actor, and not a clothes hanger. I am more than just my clothes.

I don't think about my look that much, to be honest. It's what I've always known, it's what I've grown up with, and I wouldn't ever want to step too far away from my most authentic self.

Fashion is a trend, style is within a person.

You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style.

Style comes from knowing who you are and who you want to be in the world; it does not come from wanting to be somebody else, or wanting to be thinner, shorter, taller, prettier.

Finding your own style is not easy, but once found it brings complete happiness. It gives you self-confidence, always.

I've been called a stylist until I really could tear my hair out. And I simply don't believe in style. The style is you.

Everybody wants to know about my style and how it came about. It's no big secret. It's the way I feel.

It's important to find what really suits who you are, because style isn't only what you wear, it's what you project.

There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life.

Personal style isn't simply an exercise in parroting but rather an exhibition for our own stories - from the gait of our walk to the rhythm of our speech to the manner in which the necktie falls from the knot.

I decided about a year ago, and I just feel like I want to see more personal style in people, and I feel like if I'm going to be out there in the public eye, they should see who I am and how I dress, and I feel like it, also.

I don't approach fashion; fashion approaches me!

I express myself through clothes, but clothes don't define me.

I have never known a really chic woman whose appearance was not, in large part, an outward reflection of her inner self.

I'm a lot more interested in style than fashion - style is what makes us who we are.

There are days when I want to feel cool, sexy, goofy, and at these times, fashion helps me define my mood.

For me, the best way to know me is to look at my clothing.

Elegant is not what you wear, and it's not about how you wear it, but it's more about who you are.