Motivational Quotes

Fashion

My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.

- Collins, Jackie

Best Quotes about Fashion

Fashion wears out more clothes than the man.

Shakespeare, William

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

Dworkin, Andrea

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

Locke, John

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Maria, Queen

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

Proverb, French

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

Cobb, Irvin S.

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

Cibber, Colley

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What a deformed thief this fashion is.

William Shakespeare

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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 more powerful than any tyrant.

Proverb, Latin

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

Hays, Mary

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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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He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Voltaire

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Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

Chanel, Coco

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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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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Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Chanel, Coco

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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When in doubt, wear red.

Blass, Bill

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

Saint-Laurent, Yves

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

Geoffrey Chaucer

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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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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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Fashionabilty is a kind of elevated vulgarity.

Darley, G.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

George Bernard Shaw

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Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Lillian Hellman

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

Gilda Radner

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