Fashion Quotes

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief

Oscar Wilde

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Coco Chanel

Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English--but are great in remembering signs

Karl Lagerfeld

Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests

Karl Lagerfeld

What a deformed thief this fashion is

William Shakespeare

My idea is always to avoid nostalgia.

Miuccia Prada

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

A fit, healthy body that is the best fashion statement

Jess C. Scott

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

Treasure Stitches

A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul

Karl Lagerfeld

One should never confuse fashionable with beautiful

Beth Fantaskey

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

George Bernard Shaw

There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A good model can advance fashion by ten years.

Yves SaintLaurent

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

Yves SaintLaurent

One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

Oscar Wilde

He was a tubby little chap who looked as if he had been poured into his clothes and had forgotten to say when!

P. G. [Sir Pelham Grenville] Wod

Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us.

Virginia Woolf

Good clothes open all doors.

Thomas Fuller

So dress and conduct yourself so that people who have been in your company will not recall what you had on.

John Newton