Quotes on Fashion, Style, and Dressing 5
• 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
• Ruffs, Cuffs and Farthingales (by Winston Chesterfield)
• BespokeMe (by Andrew Williams)
• Parisian Gentleman (by Hugo Jacomet)
• Smarter Style (by Michael Snytkin)
- Charles: I really like your suit but I...
- Ray Frensham: …I agree….and the...
- Sophie: I must confess, I have never read...
- Andrew Hutchinson: I do on occasion see...
- Winston Chesterfield: Dan, Each to his own....





