Fashion Quotes

For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.

Oscar Wilde

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

William Hazlitt

We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value -- a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden prey. She is the object of unbridled regard, a living bait, the passive realization of an ideal. No other female occupation contains such potent impulses to moral disintegration as this one, applying as it does the outward signs of riches to a poor and beautiful girl.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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.

James Laver

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

George Santayana

You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

Mae West

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

C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon

The difference between the girls today and models of the past is that we are not only interested in fashion: we are going in so many different directions at once. We work harder -- at night and on weekends. On the modeling profession

Claudia Schiffer

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.

Elsa Schiaparelli

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.

Pablo Picasso

It's not that I don't want to be a beauty, that I don't yearn to be dripping with glamour. It's just that I can't see how any woman can find time to do to herself all the things that must apparently be done to make herself beautiful and, having once done them, how anyone without the strength of mind of a foreign missionary can keep up such a regime.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

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.

Stephen Bayley

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

Fred A. Allen

Nineties style isn't.

David Borenstein, December 19, 1

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

Colley Cibber

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Coco Chanel

Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.

Coco Chanel

Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant.

Proverb