Fashion Quotes
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A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes. (Quote by - Edith Head)
Only great minds can afford a simple style. (Quote by - Stendal)
The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword, Th' expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, Th' observed of all observers, quite, quite down! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
There has been a change in men's attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion; they're not afraid of it. (Quote by - Calvin Klein)
Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
If you are not in fashion, you are nobody. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
Death my lord, Their clothes are after such a pagan cut to 't That sure th' have worn out Christendom. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Respect is love in plain clothes. (Quote by - Frankie Byrne)
The dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress. (Quote by - Hubert de Givenchy)
I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can't accept that it should originate there. (Quote by - Coco Chanel)
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity. (Quote by - Plato)
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Clothes don't make a man, but clothes have got many a man a good job. (Quote by - Herbert Harold Vreeland)
Fashion is architecture. It is a matter of proportions. (Quote by - Coco Chanel)
Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make ourselves its slave. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. (Quote by - Edwin Hubbel)
You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred; only I do not like the fashion of your garments. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Fashion is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas. (Quote by - Bruce Oldfield)
They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I don't do fashion, I am fashion. (Quote by - Coco Chanel)
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive. (Quote by - Calvin Klein)
Nothing is thought rare Which is not new, and follow'd; yet we know That what was worn some twenty years ago Comes into grace again. (Quote by - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher)
A woman's dress should be like a barbedwire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view. (Quote by - Sophia Loren)
The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates. (Quote by - Dave Barry)
Above all, remember that the most important thing you can take anywhere is not a Gucci bag or French-cut jeans; it's an open mind. (Quote by - Gail Rubin Bereny)
The difference between style and fashion is quality. (Quote by - Giorgio Armani)
The goal I seek is to have people refine their style through my clothing without having them become victims of fashion. (Quote by - Giorgio Armani)
And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away. (Quote by - Bible)
A wisp of gossamer, about the size and substance of a spider's web. (Quote by - Monica Baldwin)
Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are. (Quote by - Quentin Crisp)
We live not according to reason, but according to fashion. (Quote by - Seneca)
I'll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors To study fashions to adorn my body: Since I am crept in favor with myself, I will maintain it with some little cost. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
When a person is in fashion, all they do is right. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. (Quote by - Jean Cocteau)
Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. (Quote by - Dave Barry)
When his wife asked him to change clothes to meet the German Ambassador: If they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. (Quote by - Anthony Burgess)
He is only fanastical that is not in fashion. (Quote by - Robert Burton)
I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked. (Quote by - David Bailey)
All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work. (Quote by - Helena Rubinstein)
The lamb began to follow the wolf in sheep's clothing. (Quote by - Aesop)
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear. (Quote by - Anatole France)
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit. (Quote by - George Santayana)
A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Elegance is a question of personality, more than one's clothing. (Quote by - Jean-Paul Gaultier)
The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Dumpy frump a fashion disaster. (Quote by - New York Post headline)
Fashions fade, style is eternal. (Quote by - Yves Saint Laurent)
And as the French we conquer'd once, Now give us laws for pantaloons, The length of breeches and the gathers Port-cannons, periwigs, and feathers. (Quote by - Samuel Butler (1))
Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of the future, and should never be static. (Quote by - Oleg Cassini)
About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs. (Quote by - Manolo Blahnik)
Squinting upon the lustre Of the rich Rings which on his fingers glistre; And, snuffing with a wrythed nose the Amber, The Musk and Civet that perfum'd the chamber. (Quote by - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas)
Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse. (Quote by - Charles Churchill)
Style is primarily a matter of instinct. (Quote by - Bill Blass)
Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women. (Quote by - Elsa Schiaparelli)
As good be out of the World as out of the Fashion. (Quote by - Colley Cibber)
Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
All this I see; and I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man. But art not thou thyself giddy with the fashion too, that thou hast shifted out of thy tale into telling me of the fashion? (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men. (Quote by - Marlene Dietrich)
The expression a woman wears on her face is more important than the clothes she wears on her back. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)
So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date. (Quote by - Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach)
A good model can advance fashion by ten years. (Quote by - Yves Saint Laurent)
Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
I don't design clothes. I design dreams. (Quote by - Ralph Lauren)
Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman's jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with. (Quote by - Karl Lagerfeld)
I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet. (Quote by - Giorgio Armani)
Fashion is made to become unfashionable. (Quote by - Coco Chanel)
The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
The dress is a vase which the body follows. My clothes are like modules in which bodies move. (Quote by - Pierre Cardin)
The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in. (Quote by - Paris Hilton)
While clothes may not make the woman, they certainly have a strong effect on her self-confidence - which, I believe, does make the woman. (Quote by - Mary Kay Ashe)
It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions. (Quote by - Voltaire)
What a deformed thief this fashion is. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
There is no fashion for the old. (Quote by - Coco Chanel)
Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest. (Quote by - Christian Dior)
The fashion of this world passeth away. (Quote by - Bible, 1 Corinthians)
I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear. (Quote by - Katharine Hepburn)
In difficult times fashion is always outrageous. (Quote by - Elsa Schiaparelli)
I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. (Quote by - Gilda Radner)
