Top 50 Michael Kors Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Travel is the ultimate inspiration.”

— Michael Kors

2. “I think the older I get, the more I realize that the ultimate luxury is time.”

— Michael Kors

3. “I’ve always thought of accessories as the exclamation point of a woman’s outfit.”

— Michael Kors

4. “Clothes are like a good meal, a good movie, great pieces of music.”

— Michael Kors

5. “Ultimately, clean lines have greater longevity, which women appreciate, and to which they can add their own personality.”

— Michael Kors

6. “Fashion is like food! Some people like sushi, others think hamburgers are divine! People like different things!”

— Michael Kors

7. “No human being should wear tight satin.”

— Michael Kors

8. “The perfect accessory can make the difference between looking blah and totally to die for.”

— Michael Kors

9. “I wasn’t Barbie-obsessed. I think my mother might have been my Barbie.”

— Michael Kors

10. “Learn to invest in the best quality you can afford and wear pieces in different ways.”

— Michael Kors

11. “Put on a trench, you’re suddenly Audrey Hepburn walking along the Seine.”

— Michael Kors

12. “A man in a well tailored suit will always shine brighter than a guy in an off-the-rack suit.”

— Michael Kors

13. “You make sexiness strong by balancing it out: something familiar with something unfamiliar, something masculine with something feminine, something streamlined with something rococo. It’s a Yin and Yang. Women are made of layers, your mood shifts, no one is neither one extreme nor the other.”

— Michael Kors

14. “I hate the idea that you have to give up anything. I think you can be powerful and still be provocative, you can be smart and have a softness, you can have all of it.”

— Michael Kors

15. “If you want to have longevity, then I think that you have to have a point of view, but at the same time still be elastic. Things evolve, the world changes, but people have to know you for who you are so they know what you stand for.”

— Michael Kors

16. “Great style means having a point of view, but evolving your look is even more important. Rushing to embrace every trend will leave you fashionable, but not stylish.”

— Michael Kors

17. “When I’m not working I’m a slug – a full slug. I am not good at the in-between. I’m either fever-pitched or want to just pass out on a beach with a really sleazy book and eat a cheeseburger.”

— Michael Kors

18. “I feel unbelievably fortunate. How many people get to do what they always wanted to do and do well with it and continue to be surprised and see amazing places and meet amazing people?”

— Michael Kors

19. “Women are much more comfortable making their own style rules now. They want pieces that will make their busy lives easier.”

— Michael Kors

20. “Seventy per cent of the clothes you own should be meat and potatoes. Thirty per cent should be icing and fluff – that’s colour, pattern, shine, accessories. Too many women get the proportions the other way round, then can’t figure out why they can’t get dressed.”

— Michael Kors

21. “The greenest thing you could do in fashion, is to buy something great that you’re going to use for years.”

— Michael Kors

22. “The biggest lesson that I’ve learned is that fashion is this tightrope where you have to be consistent but inconsistent. You need the connective thread but at the same time you need a sense of surprise.”

— Michael Kors

23. “It’s an unbelievably tight race for hideous today.”

— Michael Kors

24. “It’s funny when I hear people complain – particularly about the most fabulous parts of being a designer, like when you’re getting ready to work on a show. I don’t even know that I’m tired. I could stay up for six days straight! No drugs, no coffee, no nothing. I’m just so excited.”

— Michael Kors

25. “I grew up surrounded by these tough, ballsy, strong women. They were also adoring women, but they were the kind of women who would argue over what kind of pants you were wearing or the color of your nail polish.”

— Michael Kors

26. “For me, true luxury can be caviar or a day with no meetings, no appointments and no schedule.”

— Michael Kors

27. “Fashion is not like the movie business, where you can have two great projects in a row and then say, “You know what? I’m going to take off eight months.” What am I going to tell people? Wear last year’s clothes?”

— Michael Kors

28. “My mom was a model. She had me at 20, so she was a young mother.”

— Michael Kors

29. “I mean you might have wanted Carrie Bradshaw, but to me she’s like toddlers and tiaras gone berserk!”

— Michael Kors

30. “I think quality will be increasingly important-we’re moving away from a time of fast fashion. But really, the only constant in fashion is that you must keep moving forward, otherwise you’ll be left behind.”

— Michael Kors

31. “You need to be curious one way or another as a designer. Your eye has to stay curious. I look at people and think about how they live. I think about bodies.”

— Michael Kors

32. “Every woman should own a shirtdress.”

— Michael Kors

33. “People always think that designers hate each other. And we’re certainly a competitive lot, but we also enjoy each other’s company. No one else knows what you’re going through other than another designer.”

— Michael Kors

34. “The craziest thing about fashion people in general, not just designers, is that it’s always, “Oh my God, you lost weight! I love your hair!” Or “Oh, you’re so tan!” Or, “You’re so skinny! I love your shoes!” These are fashion icebreakers. Everyone’s always looking at each other.”

— Michael Kors

35. “I know what women look good in. I don’t think the rules ever change.”

— Michael Kors

36. “I can sketch up a storm, and I’m very involved in how clothes are constructed, but I have a short attention span.”

— Michael Kors

37. “Give me Caviar Kaspia and give me a hamburger. I love the two extremes.”

— Michael Kors

38. “My personal style icon is Steve McQueen. My design style icon is a mix of everyone from Jackie O. to Lauren Hutton to my mother.”

— Michael Kors

39. “I think a lot of women have too many mini skirts in their closets.”

— Michael Kors

40. “I don’t even think of going to Europe as going to another country now.”

— Michael Kors

41. “My apartment looks like no one lives in it.”

— Michael Kors

42. “My legacy would be that you don’t have to give up anything. You can be chic but have a sense of humor, you can be sexy but comfortable, you can be timeless but fresh.”

— Michael Kors

43. “When I was a kid, I was trendier. I’d wear anything. I was in love beads and platforms.”

— Michael Kors

44. “I think to be empathetic is the greatest gift you can have as a designer. Hopefully, people will look at me and say, ‘He really loved women.’”

— Michael Kors

45. “Because of what’s going on with the economy, I think women are realizing that maybe they don’t need a closet full of clothes. They just need the right clothes.”

— Michael Kors

46. “People want to look taller and thinner. No one says, ‘Ooh! Let me buy that dress because it makes me feel matronly!’”

— Michael Kors

47. “I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life – unless you live it?”

— Michael Kors

48. “When you try on something, you have to ask yourself, ‘How many ways could I wear this? Could I wear it to work? To dinner or drinks? Will it span the seasons’ If you have to think too hard about those questions, then skip it.”

— Michael Kors

49. “I’m definitely curious. I love pop culture. I’m glued to it. I can watch garbage TV, but then I can also watch great theater.”

— Michael Kors

50. “Let’s be honest – look what Hollywood at 18 is.”

— Michael Kors