Motivational Quotes

Fashion

The great attraction of fashion is that it diverted attention from the insoluble problems of beauty and provided an easy way -- which money could buy... to a simply stated, easily reproduced ideal of beauty, however temporary that ideal.

- Zeldin, Theodore

Best Quotes about Fashion

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.

France, Anatole

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Henry David Thoreau

It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.

Saint-Laurent, Yves

You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.

Cobb, Irvin S.

He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Fashions are born and they die too quickly for anyone to learn to love them.

Ballard, Bettina

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

Shaw, George Bernard

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

Henry David Thoreau

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The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

Lamb, Charles

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

Maria, Queen

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Fashion wears out more clothes than the man.

Shakespeare, William

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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.

Baudelaire, Charles

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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Fielding, Henry

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A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Proverb, French

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People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.

Lauren, Ralph

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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant.

Proverb, Latin

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

Allen, Fred A.

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Women's fashion is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.

Dworkin, Andrea

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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Chanel, Coco

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If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion, insofar as it sets that three-quarters free and communicates self-confidence and mutual cheerful agreeableness to those who know they are subject to its law.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Zeldin, Theodore

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Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

Hays, Mary

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Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Fashion, by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.

Wilde, Oscar

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If the cut of the costume indicates intellect and talent, then the color indicates temper and heart.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

Bayley, Stephen

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Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion -- it exists to be destroyed. If everybody did everything with respect, you'd go nowhere.

Lagerfeld, Karl

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Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

Chanel, Coco

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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.

Schiaparelli, Elsa

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I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.

Radner, Gilda

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No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.

Morley, Christopher

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You don't learn style from watching people on a runway. Fashion happens every morning when you wake up.

Harlow, Shalom

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

Voltaire

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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.

Laver, James

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In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes.

Porter, Cole

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We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The average American can get into the kingdom of heaven much more easily than he can get into the Boulevard St. Germain.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

Franklin, Benjamin

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What a deformed thief this fashion is.

William Shakespeare

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Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.