Fashion Quotes

Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.

Queen Maria

Fashion is a tyrant from which there is no deliverance; all must conform to its whimsical.

Proverb

My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.

Jackie Collins

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

Dorothy Parker

Where's the man could ease a heart, like a satin gown?

Dorothy Parker

It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating. If a woman wears a high-heeled shoe it changes the apparent musculature of the leg so that you get an effect of twanging sinew, of tension needing to be released. Her bottom sticks out like an offering. At the same time, the lofty perch is an expression of vulnerability, she is effectively hobbled and unable to escape. There is something arousing about this declaration that she is prepared to sacrifice function for form.

Stephen Bayley

They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.

Anthony Trollope

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

Anthony Trollope

I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.

Dick Clark

There is no such thing as a moral dress. It's people who are moral or immoral.

Jennie Jerome Churchill

I was the first f****** hippy to enter this business, you know... I was one of the first girls to say I don't give a f*** about this whole supermodel thing.

Helena Christensen

You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face.

Daisy Ashford

The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.

Hannah Arendt

The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a fighter -- in which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man's first beginning.

Eric Hoffer

To the old, the new is usually bad news.

Eric Hoffer

You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate.

Logan Pearsall Smith

All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.

Lin Yutang

All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind.

Charles Baudelaire

Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)