quotations about fashion
Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
E. M. FORSTER
A Room with a View
Fashion is fortunately no law but to its devotees.
HORACE WALPOLE
letter to the Earl of Strafford, Jun. 24, 1783
I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.
COCO CHANEL
attributed, The Gospel According to Coco Chanel
Today, every principle of identity is affected by fashion, precisely because of its potential to revert all forms to non-origin and recurrence. Fashion is always retro, but always on the basis of the abolition of the passé (the past): the spectral death and resurrection of forms. Its proper actuality (its 'up-to-dateness', its 'relevance') is not a reference to the present, but an immediate and total recycling.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
Symbolic Exchange and Death
Fashion is a sieve, and money spent on it as dust.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
He who goes against the fashion is himself a slave.
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH
All Trivia
The mind is often indicated by outward dress.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON
Clarissa