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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So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.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

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