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Fashion is not created by a single individual but by everyone involved in the production of fashion, and thus fashion is a collective activity.
YUNIYA KAWAMURA, Fashion-ology
Fashion is an international language.
SUE JENKYN JONES, Fashion Design
Fashion is a product of a society with more than one class in it and where upward movement between classes is both possible and desirable. Thus it would seem that, as soon as this kind of society exists, as soon as modern, capitalist society exists, fashion exists.
MALCOLM BARNARD, Fashion as Communication
Seest thou not what a deformed thief this fashion is?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado About Nothing
The fashion industry is not interested in making women feel better about themselves. Fashion is about making people want something they are unlikely to get ... and any satisfaction achieved is fleeting and faintly disappointing.
HADLEY FREEMAN, Guardian, Sep. 9, 2009
Fashion as a belief is manifested through clothing.
YUNIYA KAWAMURA, Fashion-ology
Fashion is an inherent part of human social interaction and not the creation of an elite group of designers, producers, or marketers. Because of its basis in individual social comparison, fashion cannot be controlled without undermining its ultimate purpose, which is the expression of individual identity. If self-identity were never in doubt and social comparison never took place, there would be no demand for fashion, and there would be no need or opportunity for style change.
AUBREY CANNON, The Cultural and Historical Contexts of Fashion
The kinetic, open personality of fashion is the personality which a society in the process of rapid transformation most needs.
CAROLINE EVANS, Fashion at the Edge
Fashion is a striving to overcome the spatial divide between classes, to overcome the invidious comparisons between "them and us", to catch up and overtake the "in crowd". In other words, what it would like to do is to abolish the very incline that enables the fashion dynamic to exist.
MICHAEL CARTER, Fashion Classics from Carlyle to Barthes
Fashion is a hard mistress.
SARAH STICKNEY ELLIS, The Women of England
Fashion is a mysterious chimera. Elegance, beauty and expense are no longer reliable guides to what is "cool". Outfits applauded on the runway often never make it to the stores.... Just as we get used to one "look", its counterpart comes into vogue. Why do we need or wish to consistently redefine and adorn ourselves? Who makes the rules and who breaks them? Fashion seems responsible for the mayhem, but it is also the creative source of an exciting and enormously profitable industry.
SUE JENKYN JONES, Fashion Design
Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But, being compelled to live under its foolish laws, the wise man is never the first to follow, nor the last to keep them.
ETIENNE PAVILLON, attributed, Other Men's Minds
Fashion is the great governor of this world; it presides, not only in matters of dress and amusement, but in law, physic, politics, religion, and all other things of the gravest kind; indeed, the wisest of men would be puzzled to give any better reason why particular forms in all these have been at certain times universally received, and at others universally rejected, than that they were in or out of fashion.
HENRY FIELDING, "The True Patriot"
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
E. H. CHAPIN, Living Words
Fashion is unjustly spoken of as presiding only in the festive dance, the lighted hall, the crowded court. Would that her influence were confined to these alone! but, alas! we find her in the most sedate assemblies, cooling down each tint of coloring that else might glow too warmly, smoothing off excrescences, and rounding angles to one general uniformity of shape and tone. Her task, however, is but a short one here, and she passes on through all the busy haunts of life, neglecting neither high nor low, nor rich nor poor, until she enters the very sanctuary, and bows before the altar, not only walking with the multitude who keep the holy day, but bending in sable sorrow over the last and dearest friend committed to the tomb. Yes, there is something monstrous in the thought, that we cannot weep for the dead, but fashion must disguise our grief; and that we cannot stand before the altar, and pronounce that solemn vow, which the deep heart of woman alone can fully comprehend, but fashion must be especially consulted there.
SARAH STICKNEY ELLIS, The Women of England
Fashion is predicated on the fear that the naked body, divested of signs, is incapable of authority.
CHRISTIAN THORNE, The Dialectic of Counter-Enlightenment
Fashion is unpredictable. Fashion changes overnight. Fashion is whimsy.
MICHAEL E. GERBER, The Most Successful Small Business in the World
One of the most perplexing aspects of fashion is its preoccupation with change, and hence with time. Its mutability is the point. Even those who take (or claim to take) no particular interest in clothes will, by accident or passivity, nonetheless go with the fashion flow. A man who wore a doublet and hose in the sixteenth century will not be wearing such an outfit in any of the following centuries unless he's on his way to a costume party. You would either have to take great care of what you already own so you rarely needed to buy new things or go looking for passé ones to be completely out of fashion, which takes more work than being in fashion.
LINDA GRANT, The Thoughtful Dresser
No fashion is ever a success unless it is used as a form of seduction.
CHRISTIAN DIOR, attributed, Dress Code
Fashion is not a real element of beauty in external objects; and to persons who possess a good endowment of Form, Constructiveness and Ideality, intrinsic elegance is much more pleasing and permanently agreeable, than forms of less merit, recommended merely by being new. Hence there is a beauty which never palls, and there are objects over which fashion exercises no control.
GEORGE COMBE, A System of Phrenology
Fashion is a sieve, and money spent on it as dust.
It should never be forgotten that any one who makes himself a slave to fashion is just as pusillanimous as one who makes himself a slave to any other master.
JACOB WILSON, Self-Control
We are but a day in this world, and in that day the fashion is changed a thousand times: all seek liberty, yet all deprive themselves of it.
DANTE ALIGHIERI, The Divine Comedy
Fashion is not usually amenable to reason and common sense; argument, entreaty, ridicule, are each and all alike in turn powerless in the matter.
PYE HENRY CHAVASSE, Man's Strength and Woman's Beauty
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