Luxury is anything that feels special. I mean, it can be a moment, it can be a walk on the beach, it could be a kiss from your child, or it could be a beautiful picture frame, a special fragrance. I think luxury doesn't necessarily have to mean expensive. ~Aerin Lauder

When you get into a hotel room, you lock the door, and you know there is a secrecy, there is a luxury, there is fantasy. There is comfort. There is reassurance. ~Diane von Furstenberg

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good. ~Mariska Hargitay

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure. ~Edsger Dijkstra

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do. ~Leontyne Price

What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language. ~Miuccia Prada

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. ~Audrey Hepburn

A woman's dress should be a like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view. ~Sophia Loren

Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live. ~Gianni Versace

You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes. Too many women think that they are unimportant, but the real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet. ~Christian Dior

When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don’t get carried away—it’s only dresses. ~Karl Lagerfeld

A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste—it's hearty, it's healthy, it's physical. I think we could use more of it. No taste is what I'm against. ~Diana Vreeland

I like first class, but I don't like first class people - I prefer the people in coach. I like fine restaurants, but prefer the taste of McDonalds. I like to be perfect, but I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection. I know, I am a walking contradiction. ~Alber Elbaz

Anyone can get dressed up and glamorous, but it is how people dress in their days off that are the most intriguing. ~Alexander Wang

Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see ~Manolo Blahnik

I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity—all I hope for in my clothes. ~Yves Saint Laurent

"“When I first moved to New York and I was totally broke, sometimes I would buy Vogue instead of dinner. I felt it fed me more." ~Carrie Bradshaw

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. ~Cecil Beaton

In difficult times fashion is always outrageous. ~Elsa Schiaparelli

Luxury is the ease of a t-shirt in a very expensive dress. ~Karl Lagerfeld