quotations about fashion
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
OSCAR WILDE
The Happy Prince
Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.
ERMA BOMBECK
attributed, Chicken Soup for the Shopper's Soul
Fashion postulates an achrony, a time which does not exist; here the past is shameful and the present is constantly "eaten up" by the Fashion being heralded.
ROLAND BARTHES
Systeme de la Mode
In dress, seek the middle between foppery and shabbiness.
HORACE MANN
Thoughts
It is rather a mark of vanity not to dress well. The sloven thinks that nature has done enough for him.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
YVES SAINT LAURENT
interview, Dazed & Confused, March 2000
Fashion is a sieve, and money spent on it as dust.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
A young lady can only look charming at so much per yard. A pretty miss in calico is a lovely woman in silk; and a charming girl in muslin is an angel in satin. At least she thinks so, and who would contradict a lady?
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
You always hear about fashion's success stories. How a starlet lost an earring one night and by the next morning, the entire country was wearing one earring. Or how sweaters made a comeback in a drugstore, or a First Lady influenced how we dressed during her reign. But what about the losers? The fashions that came and went out the same day? The hopes and dreams of designers that were shattered by the sound of fifty million women ... laughing themselves to death.
ERMA BOMBECK
If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries
Fashion is socially reproductive, training us to be flexible and responsive to change in a fast-changing world.
CAROLINE EVANS
Fashion at the Edge: Spectacle
Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
YVES SAINT LAURENT
New Woman Magazine, 1991
I definitely think that fashion is a form of art and love that people can express themselves through what they wear.
PARIS HILTON
OMG, Jul. 7, 2010
Seest thou not what a deformed thief this fashion is?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Much Ado About Nothing
There would not be so much harm in the giddy following the fashions, if somehow the wise could always set them.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
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.
KARL LAGERFELD
Vanity Fair, Feb. 1992
Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always 20 times better.
MARGARET OLIPHANT
attributed, Women Know Everything
You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
MAE WEST
attributed, Little Giant Encyclopedia: Toasts & Quotes
What is called fashion is the tradition of the moment. All tradition carries with it a certain necessity for people to put themselves on a level with it.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
The flowers of fashion have but fickle friends; they are the freak of the moment, much prized today, the more despised tomorrow.
CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM
The Maxims of Marmaduke
Ten years before its time, a fashion is indecent; ten years after, it is hideous; but a century after, it is romantic.
JAMES LAVER
attributed, Business Wit & Wisdom