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• “There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.”
Geoffrey Chaucer

• “A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.”
George Bernard Shaw

• “Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”
Henry David Thoreau

• “Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
Oscar Wilde

• “What a deformed thief this fashion is.”
William Shakespeare

• “Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.”
Gore Vidal

• “Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other.”
Denise Klahn

• “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
Thomas Jefferson

• “Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.”
Anthony Burgess

• “If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.”
Lord Chesterfield

• “Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.”
Jean Cocteau

• “Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism: it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath — tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.”
William Hazlitt

• “The fear of becoming a ‘has-been’ keeps some people from becoming anything.”
Eric Hoffer

• “The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.”
William Shakespeare

• “It is new fancy rathert than taste which produces so many new fashions.”
Voltaire

• “The difference between style and fashion is quality.”
Giorgio Armani

• “No designer has really wowed me yet, I’m into other people’s recommendations when it comes to fashion.”
Shawn Ashmore

• “Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.”
Francis Bacon

• “Fashion is in a terrible state. An overdose of too much flesh.”
Geoffrey Beene

• “Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs.”
Geoffrey Beene

• “Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.”
E. T. Bell

• “Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.”
Eric Bentley

• “Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don’t have a change, you’re bored. It’s the same with fashion, you know. And that, I suppose, is what style is about.”
Bill Blass

• “Fashion is so close in revealing a person’s inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It’s really too close to the quick of the soul.”
Stella Blum

• “Fashion is a social agreement. The result of a consensus of a large group of people.”
Stella Blum

• “I think the only thing Def Leppard was guilty of in the ’80s was having a bunch of bad hairdos. And perhaps some bad fashion mistakes. But who in the ’80s wasn’t guilty of that?”
Vivian Campbell

• “When you don’t have those types of things, fashion and all that stuff, it helps you find yourself because you don’t have those things to rely on.”
Nick Cannon

• “Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.”
Nicolas de Chamfort

• “Fashion is made to become unfashionable.”
Coco Chanel

• “When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.”
Lord Chesterfield

• “Art produces ugly things, which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things, which always become ugly with time.”
Jean Cocteau

• “There are tons of people who are late to trends by nature and adopt a trend after it’s no longer in fashion. They exist in mutual funds. They exist in clothes. They exist in cars. They exist in lifestyles.”
Jim Cramer

• Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
Quentin Crisp

• Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends.
Janice Dickinson

• I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.
Marlene Dietrich

• Fashion is entertainment. That’s why these top models are so fascinating to kids. They’re dying to know about Naomi and Christy, or whoever we’ve declared the new one this afternoon.
Carrie Donovan

• Fashion has to be about what is.
Carrie Donovan

• So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

• What I did as a fashion designer for both Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent was to create a character and then costume that character throughout her life.
Tom Ford

• Both film and fashion are businesses where the audience doesn’t feel or see the work that goes on behind the scenes.
Tom Ford

• My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex.
Vivienne Westwood

• Fashion is very important. It is life enhancing and, like everything that gives pleasure, it is worth doing well.
Vivienne Westwood

• Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.
Loretta Young

• About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
Manolo Blahnik

• Style is primarily a matter of instinct.
Bill Blass

• I can go all over the world with just three outfits: a blue blazer and gray flannel pants, a gray flannel suit, and black tie.
Pierre Cardin

• The jean! The jean is the destructor! It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity. The jean must be stopped!
Pierre Cardin

• We undress men and women, we don’t dress them any more.
Pierre Cardin

• Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.
Coco Chanel

• Elegance is refusal.
Coco Chanel

• I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.
Coco Chanel

• Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics.
Coco Chanel

• Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.
Coco Chanel

• Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
Coco Chanel

• Dressing up. People just don’t do it anymore. We have to change that.
John Galliano

• There’s room for the Gap, but the joy of dressing is an art.
John Galliano

• Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!
Donna Karan

• Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.
Donna Karan

• I think there’s something incredibly sexy about a woman wearing her boyfriend’s T-shirt and underwear.
Calvin Klein

• The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.
Calvin Klein

• Women should never be allowed to counsel men about clothes.
George Frazier

• The most challenging part to dressing well is knowing how to be elegant while being casual.
Umberto Angeloni

• Know first who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Epictetus

• Do you think it means nothing to have the right, as you make your entry into a salon, to look down on everybody from the height of your cravat and be privileged to despise the most important man there if his waistcoat is out of fashion?
Balzac

• Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.
Wilkie Collins

• The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.
Oscar Wilde

• Everything a man of fashion puts on his body must be broken in, nothing should appear new.
Kotzebue

• One may become rich, but one is born elegant.
Balzac

• A well-knotted cravat is the first serious step in a man’s life.
Oscar Wilde

• An idea that is confident always looks masculine.
Thom Browne

• A Dandy is a clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office and existence consists in the wearing of Clothes.
Thomas Carlyle

• 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

• If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
Beau Brummel

• The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.
Lord Chesterfield

• There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Nobody creates a fad. It just happens. People love going along with the idea of a beautiful pig. It’s like a conspiracy.
Jim Henson

• Style is when they’re running you out of town and you make it look like you’re leading the parade.
William Battie

• One should either be a work of Art, or wear a work of Art.
Oscar Wilde

• For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is.
Christian Lacroix

• I don’t design clothes, I design dreams.
Ralph Lauren

• 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

• Dressing is a way of life.
Yves Saint Laurent

• Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Yves Saint Laurent

• I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
Yves Saint Laurent

• Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
Yves Saint Laurent

• Style is a reflection of your attitude and your personality.
Shawn Ashmore

• Style is the image of character.
Edward Gibbon

• Fred Astaire… style! What happened to style?
Tab Hunter

• Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
Arthur Ashe

• Clothes should be as interesting on the inside as on the outside. Even if you enjoy it totally alone, it’s important.
Geoffrey Beene

• Men’s fashions all start as sports clothes and progress to the great occasions of state. The tailcoat, which started out as a hunting coat, is just finishing such a journey. The tracksuit is just beginning one.
Angus McGill

• Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain

• Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
Victor Hugo

• The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
Dante Alighieri

• Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly.
Sir Cecil Beaton

• Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
George Bernard Shaw

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

• Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
Henry Fielding

• Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.
Coco Chanel

• Style is an expression of individualism mixed with charisma. Fashion is something that comes after style.
John Fairchild

• Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
Coco Chanel

• I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules,including: ‘Both of your socks should always be the same color.’ Or they should at least both be fairly dark.
Dave Barry

• Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make ourselves its slave.
Napoleon Bonaparte

• It is only the modern that ever becomes old fashioned.
Oscar Wilde

• Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
Golda Meir

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

• Fashions are born and they die too quickly for anyone to learn to love them.
Bettina Ballard

• Fashion is all about eventually becoming naked.
Unknown

• I have no problem with whatever the next big look is. Just don’t try to tell me that only one look is beautiful.
Alek Wek

• Fashion is about good energy. It’s about feelings. That’s what I have to give the people, good energy and good feelings.
Adriana Lima

• Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken.
William Hazlitt

• Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.
Edmund Clarence Stedman

• Fashion is as profound and critical a part of the social life of man as sex, and is made up of the same ambivalent mixture of irresistible urges and inevitable taboos.
Rene Konig

• To call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is ever wearable.
Eugenia Sheppard

• The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.
Alexandre Dumas Père

• He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.
Logan Pearsall Smith

• Fashion is a tool … to compete in life outside the home. People like you better, without knowing why, because people always react well to a person they like the looks of.
Mary Quant

• Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today.
Mary Quant

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