Quotes

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
-Henry David Thoreau

Only great minds can afford a simple style.
-Stendal

Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind... A mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of the future, and should never be static.
-Oleg Cassini

The goal I seek is to have people refine their style through my clothing without having them become victims of fashion.
-Giorgio Armani

If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.
-Lord Chesterfield

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
-Quentin Crisp

Fashion is architecture. It is a matter of proportions.
-Coco Chanel

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
-Anthony Burgess

I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.
-Marlene Dietrich

They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.
-Dave Barry

Fashion is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas.
-Bruce Oldfield

The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.
-Tim Cahill

I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
-David Bailey

Fashions fade, style is eternal.
-Yves Saint Laurent

Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.
-Christian Dior

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
-Gilbert K. Chesterton

There has been a change in men's attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion; they're not afraid of it.
-Calvin Klein

Elegance is a question of personality, more than one's clothing.
-Jean-Paul Gaultier

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.
-Elsa Schiaparelli

A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
-Yves Saint Laurent

The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.
-Mary Austin

I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-Gilda Radner

They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes. They shouldn't look like fashion victims.
-Ralph Lauren

I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet.
-Giorgio Armani

Dumpy frump a fashion disaster.
-New York Post headline

The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.
-Paris Hilton

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.
-Jules Renard

I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can't accept that it should originate there.
-Coco Chanel

Style is primarily a matter of instinct.
-Bill Blass

A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
-Edith Head

I don't design clothes. I design dreams.
-Ralph Lauren

When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.
-Lord Chesterfield

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.
-Plato

In difficult times fashion is always outrageous.
-Elsa Schiaparelli

People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.
-Calvin Klein

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

There are a lot of gay people in fashion, but it's not as if every gay person is a great creator.
-Calvin Klein

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.
-Gilbert K. Chesterton

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.
-George Bernard Shaw

I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
-Yves Saint Laurent

I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.
-Gilda Radner

A woman's dress should be like a barbedwire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
-Sophia Loren