FASHION QUOTES
quotations about fashion
It is of little use to quarrel with particular fashions, however absurd. Fashionable follies seldom stand their ground long enough to be made the objects of serious attack. And where they give way to it, it is only to reappear in some new guise.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
I've no desire to be ill-dressed; but I hate the feeling that I daren't be ill-dressed if I want to.
JOHN BRAINE
Room at the top
He who does not move with the times is a dead man.
VICKI BAUM
Grand Hotel
Fashion while young is never in fault--when old you may laugh at her as much as you please; but while new and vigorous all that she does is perfect, and if you, as an individual, stand out against her and find her ways unpleasant, the blame lies with you and not with the lawgiver.
ELIZA LYNN LINTON
"The Follies of Fashion", Ourselves, Essays on Women
Fashion is conceived as irrational because it changes constantly, has no content, works as an external decoration, and carries no intellectual elements.
YUNIYA KAWAMURA
Fashion-ology
Fashion is capitalism's favourite child.
WERNER SOMBART
Der Moderne Kapitalismus
Fashion is a state of mind. A spirit, an extension of one's self. Fashion talks, it can be an understated whisper, a high-energy scream or an all knowing wink and a smile. Most of all fashion is about being comfortable with yourself, translating self-esteem into a personal style.
CYNTHIA DURCANIN
What Is Fashion?
The perfection of dress lies in the union of three requisites: in its being comfortable, inexpensive, and in good taste. It should not be so far removed from the prevailing mode as to excite attention, nor yet so far within the fashion as to imply a weak submission to it.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only; fashion is something in the air. It's the wind that blows in the new fashion; you feel it coming, you smell it. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.
COCO CHANEL
attributed, Chanel: A Woman of Her Own
When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
"Bernice Bobs Her Hair"
Fashion is unpredictable. Fashion changes overnight. Fashion is whimsy.
MICHAEL E. GERBER
The Most Successful Small Business in the World
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
YVES SAINT LAURENT
Reader's Digest, 1980
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Walden
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
The worst of it all was that every now and then some beautiful and graceful and simple fashion was struck out that one would have liked to see perpetuated, but that died away in a very few years, to be replaced by something as monstrous as this had been befitting.
ELIZA LYNN LINTON
"The Follies of Fashion", Ourselves, Essays on Women
Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
AMBROSE BIERCE
The Devil's Dictionary
The kinetic, open personality of fashion is the personality which a society in the process of rapid transformation most needs.
CAROLINE EVANS
Fashion at the Edge
Fashion is not usually amenable to reason and common sense; argument, entreaty, ridicule, are each and all alike in turn powerless in the matter.
PYE HENRY CHAVASSE
Man's Strength and Woman's Beauty
I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.
STEPHANIE PERKINS
Lola and the Boy Next Door
I'm not into fashion at all. I always wear the same thing: dark suits. I don't even know where I get them.
MUHAMMAD ALI
"New Again: Muhammad Ali", Interview Magazine