Quotes on fashion and style, best aphorisms and quotations by famous authors and writers on fashion, style, trends, to give a lot of ideas about the great culture of costumes, dresses, clothing and accessories.
Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.
Fred A. Allen
I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
David Bailey
Fashion is always changing mainly because culture, research and stupidity never stand still.
Carl William Brown
Fashions are born and they die too quickly for anyone to learn to love them.
Bettina Ballard
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.
Charles Baudelaire
A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.
Coco Chanel
I don’t believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.
Stephanie Perkins
When in doubt, wear red.
Bill Blass
If the cut of the costume indicates intellect and talent, then the color indicates temper and heart.
Thomas Carlyle
Society is founded upon cloth.
Thomas Carlyle
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
Fashion has become a joke. The designers have forgotten that there are women inside the dresses.
Coco Chanel
Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
Coco Chanel
Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds.
George Washington
Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
Coco Chanel
Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
Ambrose Bierce
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only; fashion is something in the air. It’s the wind that blows in the new fashion; you feel it coming, you smell it. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.
Coco Chanel
You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.
Colley Cibber
You couldn’t tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.
Irvin S. Cobb
My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.
Jackie Collins
I’d like to put on buckskins and a ponytail and go underwater with a reed, hiding from the Indians… To me, that’s sexy!
Kevin Costner
Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
Henry Fielding
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women’s clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.
Anatole France
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
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
Choose thy clothes by thine own eyes, not another’s.
William Penn
Fashion is a sapper and miner, and is ever hard at work sapping and undermining the constitutions of its votaries.
Pye Henry Chavasse
Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
The entire spring and summer line from Marc Jacobs was stolen on the way to the fashion show in Paris. The thief is considered armed and fabulous.
Jay Leno
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity.
Charles Caleb Colton
Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
Benjamin Franklin
You don’t learn style from watching people on a runway. Fashion happens every morning when you wake up.
Shalom Harlow
Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.
Mary Hays
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Hedy Lamarr
I’ve no desire to be ill-dressed; but I hate the feeling that I daren’t be ill-dressed if I want to.
John Braine
Fashion is conceived as irrational because it changes constantly, has no content, works as an external decoration, and carries no intellectual elements.
Yuniya Kawamura
The last person to adopt a ridiculous fashion suffers more derision than the one who first adopted it.
Lewis F. Korns
Fashion … has brought every thing into vogue, by turns.
Charles Caleb Colton
I don’t do fashion, I AM fashion.
Coco Chanel
The irrational aspect of fashion is very important; fashion provides a field for the expression of fetishistic and magical impulses and beliefs.
Elizabeth Wilson
The apparel oft proclaims the man.
William Shakespeare
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
The kinetic, open personality of fashion is the personality which a society in the process of rapid transformation most needs.
Caroline Evans
Fashion is a hard mistress.
Sarah Stickney Ellis
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
Fashion is predicated on the fear that the naked body, divested of signs, is incapable of authority.
Christian Thorne
Fashion is unpredictable. Fashion changes overnight. Fashion is whimsy.
Michael E. Gerber
No fashion is ever a success unless it is used as a form of seduction.
Christian Dior
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
Fashion is all about who you are. It’s about expressing your individuality and showing the world your personality. Fashion is not about looking like everyone else. So stand out!
Laurie Mcelroy
In dress, seek the middle between foppery and shabbiness.
Horace Mann
Fashion is fortunately no law but to its devotees.
Horace Walpole
Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
Henry Ward Beecher
There are certain things that even fashion cannot justify.
Lewis F. Korns
Fashion … is most capricious in her favours, often running from those that pursue her, and coming round to those that stand still. It were mad to follow her, and rash to oppose her, but neither rash nor mad to despise her.
Charles Caleb Colton
We smile at the women who are eagerly following the fashions in dress whilst we are as eagerly following the fashions in thought.
Austin O’malley
Many-tinted are the eyes of fashion.
Edward Counsel
Fashion is the veriest goddess of semblance and of shade; to be happy is of far less consequence to her worshippers than to appear so.
Charles Caleb Colton
I definitely think that fashion is a form of art and love that people can express themselves through what they wear.
Paris Hilton
Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a Right, the natural right of the present over the past.
Roland Barthes
There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.
Booth Tarkington
Fashion is socially reproductive, training us to be flexible and responsive to change in a fast-changing world.
Caroline Evans
We are living in such a troubled world that fashion seems completely irrelevant. Yet … it’s a very, very mysterious thing. Why all of a sudden do people like yellow? Why all of a sudden do people wear combat boots?
Diane Von Furstenberg
An air of fashion, which is but a badge of slavery . proves that the soul has not a strong individual character.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Fashion is capitalism’s favourite child.
Werner Sombart
Fashion is always silly, for, before it can spread far, it must be calculated for silly people; as examples of sense, wit, or ingenuity could be imitated only by a few.
Horace Walpole
A person who is anxious to be a leader of the fashion, or one of the first to follow it, will certainly appear in the eyes of judicious men to have nothing better than a frequent change of dress to recommend him to notice.
George Washington
The fashion world can truly be a jungle filled with manufacturers who come up from the bottom and are so tough, insecure, jealous and greedy that there is a kind of animal, killer instinct in them. It’s a fiercely competitive business.
Calvin Klein
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
Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
Yves Saint-Laurent
Unlike art, the consumption of fashion is not based primarily on knowledge or education but functions through visual awareness, a type of sensuality and perception of the corporeal self.
Valerie Steele
When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
E. M. Forster
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
You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
Mae West
Fashion is one of the great living arts of civilisation and self-decoration one of the fundamental human urges.
Janey Ironside
Fashions change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
Dante Alighieri
The beggar wears all colors fearing none.
Charles Lamb
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.
Ralph Lauren
Seest thou not what a deformed thief this fashion is?
William Shakespeare
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
John Locke
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.
Paul De Man
Fashion seldom interferes with nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency.
Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Most fashionable ladies are as diamonds because they are more costly than useful.
William Scott Downey
He alone is a man, who can resist the genius of the age, the tone of fashion, with vigorous simplicity and modest courage.
Johann Caspar Lavater
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Henry David Thoreau
Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.
Queen Maria
High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
Christopher Morley
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.
Pablo Picasso
In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes.
Cole Porter
Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
Erma Bombeck
Singularity in dress argues eccentricity of character. A queer cut of the coat represents a crotchet in the brain.
Christian Nestell Bovee
On the edge of discourse, of ‘civilization’, of speech itself, experimental fashion can act out what is hidden culturally. And, like a neurotic symptom, it can utter a kind of mute resistance to the socially productive process of constructing an identity.
Caroline Evans
Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
Quentin Crisp
If fashion is a paradigm of the capitalist processes which inform modern sensibilities, then it is also a vibrant metaphor for modernity itself.
Christopher Breward & Caroline Evans
Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife’s clothes.
Thomas R. Dewar
A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
Sophia Loren
It is rather a mark of vanity not to dress well. The sloven thinks that nature has done enough for him.
Christian Nestell Bovee
There would not be so much harm in the giddy following the fashions, if somehow the wise could always set them.
Christian Nestell Bovee
It is of little use to quarrel with particular fashions, however absurd. Fashionable follies seldom stand their ground long enough to be made the objects of serious attack. And where they give way to it, it is only to reappear in some new guise.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Ten years before its time, a fashion is indecent; ten years after, it is hideous; but a century after, it is romantic.
James Laver
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
Fashion is a sieve, and money spent on it as dust.
Edward Counsel
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 is an international language.
Sue Jenkyn Jones
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
Fashion as a belief is manifested through clothing.
Yuniya Kawamura
Fashion is a tyrant from which there is no deliverance; all must conform to its whimsical.
French Proverb
Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant.
Latin Proverb
I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn’t itch.
Gilda Radner
He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.
Logan Pearsall Smith
It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.
Yves Saint-Laurent
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
George Santayana
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.
Elsa Schiaparelli
No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
Fashion wears out more clothes than the man.
William Shakespeare
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
George Bernard Shaw
Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.
George Bernard Shaw
You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
Henri B. Stendhal
Fashion! – a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.
Charles Churchill
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.
Henry David Thoreau
He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in style.
Count Leo Tolstoy
It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions.
Francois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
Oscar Wilde
Fashion, by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.
Oscar Wilde
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
Oscar Wilde
Woman’s first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.
Oscar Wilde
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.
Theodore Zeldin
It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
Renata Adler
Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.
Martin Amis
A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.
Coco Chanel
Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.
Edna W. Chase
Style is the dress of thoughts.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.
Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield
Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
Jean Cocteau
Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.
Cyril Connolly
Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn’t.
Linda Ellerbee
Style is the image of character.
Edward Gibbon
To me, style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body – both go together, they can’t be separated.
Jean-Luc Godard
‘Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It’s just IT. Some women will stay in a man’s memory if they once walked down a street.
Rudyard Kipling
He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.
Paul Klee
Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
Willem De Kooning
Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
Andre Malraux
Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped on the material in hand.
Andre Maurois
Happy the society whose deepest divisions are ones of style.
Peter McKay
Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one’s own, it is always twenty times better.
Margaret Oliphant
When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.
Blaise Pascal
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliche, not from real life.
Ezra Pound
Fashions fade, but style is eternal.
Yves Saint-Laurent
Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.
Arthur Schopenhauer
In our culture, futility plays the role of transgression and fashion is condemned for having within it the force of the pure sign which signifies nothing.
Jean Baudrillard
I do not much dislike the matter, but the manner of his speech.
William Shakespeare
Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style – but a particular kind of style. It is love of the exaggerated.
Susan Sontag
In the final analysis, “style” is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.
Susan Sontag
One had as good be out of the world, as out of fashion.
Yves Saint Laurent
Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
Wallace Stevens
The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
Jonathan Swift
Spend all you have for loveliness.
Sara Teasdale
Style is knowing who you are, what to say, and not giving a damn.
Gore Vidal
Elegance is innate… It has nothing to do with being well dressed.
Diana Vreeland
He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher.
Walt Whitman
Fashion is general; style is individual.
Edna Woolman
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