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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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