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• The mirrors reflect a sense of displacement in today’s fashion, a lack of clear vision.
Miuccia Prada

• It’s all about wanting to go forward but still having to deal with nostalgia.
Miuccia Prada

• We don’t want to wear black every day, but we don’t want head-to-toe color every day either. Green can sort of do both and I think that’s what’s great about it.
Michael Kors

• Clothes don’t make the man, but clothes have got many a man a good job.
Herbert Harold Vreeland

• You never get a second chance to make a first impression.
Will Rogers

• Do the clothes suit you? Do the clothes suit the occasion? Do the clothes suit each other?
Richard Plourde

• The only moral one can draw from history is that it is much better to invent a new fashion than a new social theory. The first may improve the appearance of men; the latter will only bring about a revolution.
Carlo Maria Franzero

• Good clothes open all doors.
Thomas Fuller

• Clothes make the man.
Latin Proverb

• The well-dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice.
William Somerset Maugham

• No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.
Frank Zappa

• A man should look as if he had bought his clothes with intelligence, put them on with care, and then forgotten all about them.
Hardy Amies

• There’s no such thing as a designer of menswear—it’s only history. The suit around the world is based on the english suit, which began in about 1670.
Hardy Amies

• To appear well dressed, be skinny and tall.
Mason Cooley

• Independence, assurance, originality, self-control and refinement should all be visible in the cut of his clothes.
Ellen Moers

• ‘Tis hell to a man of spirit to be contradicted by his tailor.
Richard Garnett

• I’ve always been backward on morals, but I do know how to dress appropriately for any given occasion, and that’s more than half the battle.
Thorne Smith

• Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy: for the apparel oft proclaims the man.
Shakespeare

• One day when I was walking down Bond Street thinking how impeccably dressed I was in a well cut brown suit, a very distinguished-looking man shouted at me, ‘People like you ought to be shot!’
Cecil Beaton

• Though starving at school, I never took twice of pudding, and paid sixpence a week out of my shilling to have my shoes blacked.
Bulwer-Lytton

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