Quotes about fashion

"Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year."

Allen, Fred A. on fashion   

"I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked."

Bailey, David on fashion   

"Fashions are born and they die too quickly for anyone to learn to love them."

Ballard, Bettina on fashion   

"All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind."

Baudelaire, Charles on fashion   

"Fashion is the most intense expression of the phenomenon of neomania, which has grown ever since the birth of capitalism. Neomania assumes that purchasing the new is the same as acquiring value. If the purchase of a new garment coincides with the wearing out of an old one, then obviously there is no fashion. If a garment is worn beyond the moment of its natural replacement, there is pauperization. Fashion flourishes on surplus, when someone buys more than he or she needs."

Bayley, Stephen on fashion   

"When in doubt, wear red."

Blass, Bill on fashion   

"Society is founded upon cloth."

Carlyle, Thomas on fashion   

"If the cut of the costume indicates intellect and talent, then the color indicates temper and heart."

Carlyle, Thomas on fashion   

"Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on fashion   

"Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions."

Chanel, Coco on fashion   

"Fashion is made to become unfashionable."

Chanel, Coco on fashion   

"When a person is in fashion, all they do is right."

Chesterfield, Lord on fashion   

"You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion."

Cibber, Colley on fashion   

"You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation."

Cobb, Irvin S. on fashion   

"My weakness is wearing too much leopard print."

Collins, Jackie on fashion   

"I'd like to put on buckskins and a ponytail and go underwater with a reed, hiding from the Indians... To me, that's sexy!"

Costner, Kevin on fashion   

"Fashionabilty is a kind of elevated vulgarity."

Darley, G. on fashion   

"Women's fashion is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women."

Dworkin, Andrea on fashion
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"Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be."

Fielding, Henry on fashion   

"Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear."

France, Anatole on fashion
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"Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others."

Franklin, Benjamin on fashion
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"You don't learn style from watching people on a runway. Fashion happens every morning when you wake up."

Harlow, Shalom on fashion   

"Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts."

Hays, Mary on fashion   

"Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion -- it exists to be destroyed. If everybody did everything with respect, you'd go nowhere."

Lagerfeld, Karl on fashion   

"Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid."

Lamarr, Hedy on fashion
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"The beggar wears all colors fearing none."

Lamb, Charles on fashion   

"People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams."

Lauren, Ralph on fashion   

"The same costume will be Indecent 10 years before its time, Shameless 5 years before its time, Outr? (daring) 1 year before its time, Smart, Dowdy 1 year after its time, Hideous 20 years after its time, Ridiculous 20 years after its time, Amusing 30 years after its time, Quaint 50 years after its time, Charming 70 years after its time, Romantic 100 years after its time, Beautiful 150 years after its time."

Laver, James on fashion   

"Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on fashion
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"Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches."

Locke, John on fashion   

"The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates."

Mamet, David on fashion   

"Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place."

Man, Paul De on fashion   

"Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding."

Maria, Queen on fashion   

"High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead."

Morley, Christopher on fashion
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"If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion, insofar as it sets that three-quarters free and communicates self-confidence and mutual cheerful agreeableness to those who know they are subject to its law."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on fashion   

"I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same."

Picasso, Pablo on fashion   

"In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes."

Porter, Cole on fashion   

"Fashion is a tyrant from which there is no deliverance; all must conform to its whimsical."

Proverb, French on fashion   

"Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant."

Proverb, Latin on fashion   

"I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch."

Radner, Gilda on fashion