Motivational Quotes

Fashion

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

- George Bernard Shaw

Best Quotes about Fashion

What a deformed thief this fashion is.

William Shakespeare

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

Gilda Radner

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

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

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

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Lillian Hellman

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

Bailey, David

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

George Bernard Shaw

12.

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

Hays, Mary

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Locke, John

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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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The beggar wears all colors fearing none.

Lamb, Charles

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

Geoffrey Chaucer

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He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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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Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

Chanel, Coco

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

Saint-Laurent, Yves

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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 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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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

33.

My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.

Collins, Jackie

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

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Cobb, Irvin S.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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