Motivational Quotes

Fashion

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

- Chanel, Coco

Best Quotes about Fashion

The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

Lamb, Charles

My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.

Collins, Jackie

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

Dworkin, Andrea

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

Stendhal, Henri B.

The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates.

Mamet, David

There's never a new fashion but it's old.

Geoffrey Chaucer

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

Lillian Hellman

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

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

Chanel, Coco

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

Maria, Queen

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant.

Proverb, Latin

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

Hays, Mary

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

Fielding, Henry

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When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

George Bernard Shaw

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You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.

Cibber, Colley

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

Ballard, Bettina

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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

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

Morley, Christopher

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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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Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.

Man, Paul De

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

Gilda Radner

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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

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Fashion wears out more clothes than the man.

Shakespeare, William

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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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I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.

Bailey, David

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I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Fashionabilty is a kind of elevated vulgarity.

Darley, G.

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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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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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Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

Locke, John

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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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Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Voltaire

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

Saint-Laurent, Yves

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When in doubt, wear red.

Blass, Bill

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Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

Franklin, Benjamin

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