I love these women. Here’s what they have to say about what it means to be a woman of style.

Audrey Hepburn-

“My look is attainable. Women can look like Audrey Hepburn by flipping out their hair, buying the large sunglasses, and the little sleeveless dresses.”

“I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.”

Marilyn Monroe-

“I’m very definitely a woman and I enjoy it.”

“I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.”

“I don’t mind living in a man’s world as long as I can be a woman in it.”

Billy Wilder on Marilyn: The luminosity of that face! There has never been a woman with such voltage on the screen, with the exception of Garbo.

(I remember listening to an interview of a woman who played a small role in one of her movies. She said that Marilyn has the perfect combination of innocence and sexiness. When I heard that, I was like, that’s exactly what she has going for her!)

Coco Chanel-

Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

Fashion passes, style remains.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

The best color in the whole world, is the one that looks good, on you.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

A woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed.

I don’t understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little – if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that’s the day she has a date with destiny. And it’s best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.

Elegance is refusal.

I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.

Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.

Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.

I was the one who changed, it wasn’t fashion. I was the one who was in fashion.

A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion.

In fashion, you know you have succeeded when there is an element of upset.

Jeanne Lanvin-

Women were meant to wear clothes of unabashed femininity.