Fashion Quotes

I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fashion condemns us to many follies the greatest is to make oneself its slave.

Napoléon Bonaparte

Conformism is so hot on the heels of the mass-produced avant-garde that the 'ins' and the 'outs' change places with the speed of mach 3.

Igor Stravinsky

There goes a man made by the Lord Almighty and not by his tailor.

Andrew Jackson

Fashions fade - style is eternal.

Yves Saint-Laurent

And by my grave you'd pray to have me back So I could see how well you look in black.

Marco Carson

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Joyce Carey

A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.

La Rochefoucauld

I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

William Shakespeare

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

Oscar Wilde

A love of fashion makes the economy go round.

Liz Tilberis

A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.

Jean de La Bruyère

Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new.

Henry David Thoreau

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

Stendhal

The tradition of the new. Yesterday's avant-gard-experiment is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche.

Richard Hofstadter

Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion on the other hand produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

Jean Cocteau

Be not the first by whom the new are tried Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Alexander Pope

Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.

Edna Woolman Chase

Fashion which elevates the bad to the level of the good subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.

Eric Bentley

Even knowledge has to be in fashion and where it is not it is wise to affect ignorance.

Baltasar Gracián

The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

William Shakespeare

Fashions after all are only induced epidemics.

George Bernard Shaw

When a man is once in fashion all he does is right.

Lord Chesterfield

I want to be the purveyor of a certain silhouette or a way of cutting, so that when I am dead and gone people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.

Alexander McQueen

The childish and savage taste of men and women for new patterns keeps how many shaking and squinting through kaleidoscopes that they may discover the particular figure which this generation requires to-day. The manufacturers have learned that this taste is merely whimsical. Of two patterns which differ only by a few threads more or less of a particular color, the one will be sold readily, the other lie on the shelf, though it frequently happens that after the lapse of a season the latter becomes the most fashionable. Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable.

Henry David Thoreau

I was sufficiently recovered from my nervous condition – or else the booze was beginning to work – to be able to discuss with Rudi the merits of checked or striped trousers, which had been the great debate among the London nobs that year. I was a check-er myself, having the height and leg for it, but Rudi thought they looked bumpkinish, which only shows what damned queer taste they had in Austria in those days. Of course, if you’ll put up with Metternich you’ll put up with anything.

George MacDonald Fraser

To have an independant mind, to think for oneself, not to follow fashion, not to seek honour or decoration, not to become part of the establishment

Marcel Schlumberge

Well, the ancients might not have been very heroic. Most of them were probably like Mother, crouched somewhere trying to work out how to make fake jawbone jewelry that would look like the real thing.

Barbara Kingsolver

But it was fantasy, and she knew it. It was her fantasy, and the fantasy of everyone else who would look at her and at her pictures; and it would stop being real the moment the man with the camera stopped clicking.

Umair Naeem

I'm always right, always wrong. Dressing bad's like loving you there is nothing i haven't worn. Nothing, I haven’t said before. You are nothing I haven’t felt before.

Tegan Quin

Even the simplest things had a glorious pointlessness to them. When buttons came in, about 1650, people couldn't get enough of them and arrayed them in decorative profusion on the backs and collars and sleeves of coats, where they didn't actually do anything. One relic of this is the short row of pointless buttons that are still placed on the underside of jacket sleeves near the cuff. These have been purely decorative and have never had a purpose, yet 350 years later on we continue to attach them as if they are the most earnest necessity.

Bill Bryson

That civet-jasmine blend you're wearing tonight absolutely clashes with the third-level formal style of your dress, you know.

Lois McMaster Bujold

She let her mind drift, thinking about new lingerie designs, wishing she'd brought along her sketchpad. Inspiration could strike at the most inconvenient times--in the shower, in the car, on this road--but she was grateful it was with her again, an old companion with whom she was getting reacquainted, pleased to find they could take up where they'd left off, as if there'd been no estrangement at all.

Heather Barbieri

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

Coco Chanel

Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth,but to make them beautifu

Coco Chanel

Paris and Fashion. Books and Art. What would one be ... without the other?

Peggy Kopman-Owens

To tell you the truth, I dislike anything that is in fashion.

Maraso

The outer garments of to-day will become the under-clothes of some destined to-morrow, and centuries hence a man found walking on the public highways dressed as you are will be arrested by the police for shocking the sense of propriety of the community, and so on. It will go on and on until you will find human beings everywhere decked out in layer after layer of clothes until he or she has lost all semblance to that beautiful thing that an all-wise Providence has designed us to be.

John Kendrick Bangs

Aside from infrequent comments ("Cheer up, love," or "It's not Hallo'ween"), no one wondered why a teenager was dressed up as a chic governess. Sylvie approved of Miri, even at the same time as she was confused by her. "It's a style at least," she said, and took off her rope of pearls and looped them around Miri's neck.

Helen Oyeyemi

fashion has a right to exist, because it permits people to define themselves over and over again.

Ann Demeulemeester

Evening fashions have to be fabulous.Don't be just better...be the BEST.

Tony Bowls

As I’ve said before, “the Mod generation”, contrary to popular belief, was not born in even 1958, but in the 1920s after a steady gestation from about 1917 or so. Now, Mod certainly came of age, fully sure of itself by 1958, completely misunderstood by 1963, and in a perpetual cycle of reinvention and rediscovery of itself by 1967 and 1975, respectively, but it was born in the 1920s, and I will maintain this. I don’t care who disagrees with me, and there are dozens of reasons that I do so —from the Art Deco aesthetic, to flapper fashions (complete with bobbed hair), to androgyny and subtle effeminacy, to jazz.

Ruadhán J. McElroy

Let those who love me follow me'Cora Pearl, on being the very first person to dye her hair red in 1864

Cora Pearl

At its best fashion is a game. But for women it's a compulsory game, like net ball, and you can't get out of it by faking your period. I know I have tried. And so for a woman every outfit is a hopeful spell, cast to influence the outcome of the day. An act of trying to predict your fate, like looking at your horoscope. No wonder there are so many fashion magazines. No wonder the fashion industry is worth an estimated 900 billion dollars a year. No wonder every woman's first thought is, for nearly every event in her life, be it work, snow or birth. The semi-despairing cry of "but what will I wear?" Because when a woman says I have nothing to wear, what she really means is there is nothing here for who I am supposed to be today.

Caitlin Moran

Newsflash she already has body image issues. It's an intrinsic part of being a woman. Every woman in the world has some part of herself that she absolutely hates. Her hands are too small, her feet are too big, her hair is too straight, too curly, her ears stick out, her bums too flat, her nose is too big and, you know, nothing you can say will change how we feel. What men don't understand is, the right clothes, the right shoes, the right makeup it just... It, it hides the flaws we think we have. They make us look beautiful to ourselves. That's what makes us look beautiful to others.Used to be all she needed to feel beautiful was a pink tutu and a plastic tiara.And we spend our whole lives trying to feel that way again.

Richard Castle

The most pleasant and alluring curve on a woman is the smile

Treasure Stitches

I had no name for that particular hue of orange, other than unfortunate.

Rachel Caine

One should never confuse fashionable with beautiful

Beth Fantaskey

These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.

Karl Lagerfeld

My motto for fashion: If you can’t afford to make an elegant statement, make a ridiculous one.

Stacey Jay

You must remember, Madame Harris, elegance is in the details.

Lynn Sheene

I dress the way I want. I don`t pretend to be someone I`m not.

Britney Spears

you are what you wear

Treasure Stitches

... look treasured

Treasure Stitches

Fashion is life-enhancing and I think it's a lovely, generous thing to do for other people

Vivienne Westwood

Fashion is merely the lowest form of ideology. To wear or not to wear blue jeans, to holiday or not to holiday in a particular place can contribute to social acceptance or bring upon us the full opprobrium of the group. Then, a few months or years later, we look back and our obsession, our fears of ridicule, seem a bit silly. By then, we are undoubtedly caught up in new fashions.(I - The Great Leap Backwards)

John Ralston Saul

Purses are dreamt up by artists, not architects.

Lauren Conrad

As the year goes on, certain deputies—and others, high in public life—will appear unshaven, without coat or cravat; or they will jettison these marks of the polite man, when the temperature rises. They affect the style of men who begin their mornings with a splash under a backyard pump, and who stop off at their street-corner bar for a nip of spirits on their way to ten hours’ manual labor. Citizen Robespierre, however, is a breathing rebuketo these men; he retains his buckled shoes, his striped coat of olive green. Can it be the same coat that he wore in the first year of the Revolution? He is not profligate with coats.While Citizen Danton tears off the starched linen that fretted his thick neck, Citizen Saint-Just’s cravat grows ever higher, stiffer, more wonderful to behold. He affects a single earring, but he resembles less a corsair than a slightly deranged merchant banker.

Hilary Mantel

Cravats grow higher, as if they mean to protect the throat. The highest cravats in public life will be worn by Citizen Antoine Saint-Just, of the National Convention and the Committee of Public Safety. In the dark and harrowing days of ’94, an obscene feminine inversion will appear: a thin crimson ribbon, worn round a bare white neck.

Hilary Mantel

Sewn together patterns, like many clashing moods,She wears what No others dare

Maddy Kobar

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