Quotes about fashion

"It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion."

Saint-Laurent, Yves on fashion   

"Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit."

Santayana, George on fashion   

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"Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt."

Schiaparelli, Elsa on fashion   

"No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on fashion   

"Fashion wears out more clothes than the man."

Shakespeare, William on fashion
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"Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics."

Shaw, George Bernard on fashion   

"He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave."

Smith, Logan Pearsall on fashion   

"You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on fashion   

"Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion."

Stendhal, Henri B. on fashion   

"We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same."

Thoreau, Henry David on fashion
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"He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in style."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on fashion   

"It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions."

Voltaire on fashion   

"Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered."

Wilde, Oscar on fashion   

"Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly."

Wilde, Oscar on fashion   

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"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

Wilde, Oscar on fashion
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"Fashion, by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal."

Wilde, Oscar on fashion   

"The great attraction of fashion is that it diverted attention from the insoluble problems of beauty and provided an easy way -- which money could buy... to a simply stated, easily reproduced ideal of beauty, however temporary that ideal."

Zeldin, Theodore on fashion   

"A man should look as if he has bought his clothes with intelligence, put them on with care and then forgotten all about them."

Amies, Hardy on fashion   

"I'm fashion Adultery & your style is questionable"

James, Authentic on fashion   

"Fashion is a Sport, onlookers & spectators everywhere, some hating & some congratulating. Either way ur the topic of discussion."

Jvongard on fashion