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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

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