"It's funny, my girlfriends think that because I am married to a fashion designer, I get all these great tips and hints about great fashion, but it's not like that at all. He never tells me what to wear"
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The line works because it plays with a familiar cultural script - the fashion designer husband as omniscient stylist - then flips it into something closer to modern, grown-up partnership. "He never tells me what to wear" reads as both relief and quiet brag. Relief: she’s not being controlled, not molded into a brand extension. Brag: their marriage is progressive enough to make autonomy sound romantic, not neglectful. In an era when celebrity women are routinely styled, scrutinized, and "improved" by teams of experts, her emphasis lands on agency: she chooses, he doesn’t dictate.
There’s also a careful piece of image management here. By denying the "great tips", she lowers the stakes around her own fashion hits and misses, making them feel human rather than engineered. Yet she still gets to bask in the aura of fashion adjacency without sounding like she’s cashing it in. The subtext is classic celebrity relatability: yes, the life is glossy, but the marriage is normal - and normal is the most marketable look of all.
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Loughlin, Lori. (2026, January 16). It's funny, my girlfriends think that because I am married to a fashion designer, I get all these great tips and hints about great fashion, but it's not like that at all. He never tells me what to wear. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-funny-my-girlfriends-think-that-because-i-am-132398/
Chicago Style
Loughlin, Lori. "It's funny, my girlfriends think that because I am married to a fashion designer, I get all these great tips and hints about great fashion, but it's not like that at all. He never tells me what to wear." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-funny-my-girlfriends-think-that-because-i-am-132398/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"It's funny, my girlfriends think that because I am married to a fashion designer, I get all these great tips and hints about great fashion, but it's not like that at all. He never tells me what to wear." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-funny-my-girlfriends-think-that-because-i-am-132398/. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.







