Fashion Quotes

Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism: it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath -- tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.

William Hazlitt, Sketches and Es

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 182

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

Jean Cocteau, "New York WorldTel

The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

William Shakespeare, Much Ado ab

If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.

Lord Chesterfield, "Letter to hi

The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.

Eric Hoffer, The Passionate Stat

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

Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Wor

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

Eric Bently, "Introduction to Na

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

Anthony Burgess, You've Had Your

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

Friedrich von Schiller

The New is not a fashion, it is a value.

Roland Barthes

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Henry Fielding

For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can't possibly fit. Without these visual references, each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique.

Gloria Steinem

She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.

Jonathan Swift

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!

Kevin Costner

The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn't look too strange in the country.

Sir Hardy Amies

Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.

Robert Bresson

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

Robert Bresson

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

John Locke