Fashion

“Squinting upon the lustreThe Musk and Civet that perfum'd the chamber.”

“Innovators are the cool ones who "pump" new fashions into our world … Most are ignored, but some get copied.”

“Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.”

“I like my money right where I can see it…hanging in my closet.”

“He is only fantastical that is not in fashion.”

“And as the French we conquer'd once,Port-cannons, periwigs, and feathers.”

“Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.”

“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.”

“Fashion fades, only style remains the same.”

“I don’t do fashion. I am fashion.”

“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”

“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”

“Fashion is architecture. It is a matter of proportions.”

“Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.”

“Fashion—a word which knaves and fools may use,Their knavery and folly to excuse.”

“Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.”

“Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.”

“Fashion is a major amnesiac that takes for a novelty what it burned two days ago.”

“And now, I’m just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time.”

“Fashion is what you’re offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose.”

“It was before the date when the browns we use on our wall papers began to be reverently studied from Thames mud, and the greens and yellows from mouldy cheese. No one as yet toned down tender dirty drab within to match the formless smoky drab without, no one adored rhubarb tints, or admired the colour resulting from mixtures of cocoa and milk.”

“I was always really determined to look the way I wanted to look, and I wanted to cut my hair. I wanted to look different because I was used to looking different. Because of my religious background I'd always been encouraged to look different.”

“The less taste a person has in dress, the more obstinate he always seems to be.”

“Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.”

“Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!”

“It really annoys me that people think every model has an eating disorder, and every model is dumb. Most of the girls are naturally skinny, like me. I don’t have to watch what I eat. I love eating! Especially ice-cream and salty snacks.”

“Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.”

“I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes — it’s about all kinds of change.”

“Fashion is not necessarily about labels. It’s not about brands. It’s about something else that comes from within you.””

“You can’t be melancholy in fashion because people don’t respond to it.”

“Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality.”

“It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.”

“Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one’s own, it is always 20 times better.”

“It costs a lot of money to look this cheap.”

“With hair, heels, and attitude, honey, I am through the roof.”

“The fashion pages have always puzzled me. In my smugly ignorant view, the articles appear to be so full of fluff and nonsense as to make the astrology columns seem insightful by comparison.”

“What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language.””

“Fashions, being themselves begotten of the desire for change, are quick to change also.”

“If I'm wearing jeans all day at work, it's [hard] to slip into a dress and make yourself feel like you were born in it. That sort of thing can really be the difference between a good look and a great look. You can have a great dress, but when you put it on and you feel like it's embodying who you are that day, that's not just fashion, that's style!”

“I have always believed that fashion was not made only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence.”

“Fashion is custom in the guise of departure from custom.”

“In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous.”

“The glass of fashion and the mould of form,The observ'd of all observers.”

“Their clothes are after such a pagan cut too,That, sure, they've worn out Christendom.”

“You, sir, I entertain for one of my hundred; only I do not like the fashion of your garments.”

“I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.”

“I'll be at charges for a looking-glass,I will maintain it with some little cost.”

“Only great minds can afford a simple style.”

“Good manners. They're forgotten in America. I think it's bad manners to stand around in public with ripped jeans and your hair in a mess, holding a Starbucks.”

“Madonna is the only modern celebrity who is truly a style icon. Who else has the audacity to dress like her these days? She really influenced how I wanted to look when I was growing up, and made me realize that I didn’t have to look like a blond beach bunny or a Playboy model.”

“It's dangerous to have fashion and power.”

“As long I've got my suit and tie, I'm going to leave it out on the floor tonight.”

“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”

“Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.”

“Anyone can get dressed up and glamorous, but it is how people dress in their days off that are the most intriguing.”

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”

“Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.”

“It’s better to have fewer things of quality than too much expendable junk.”

“Nothing is thought rareComes into grace again.”

“As good be out of the World as out of the Fashion.”

“The fashion of this world passeth away.”

“A man, woman, or child bundled up in the cold might be seen wearing gloves, hats, hosiery, and scarves that immediately imply function over fashion.”

“The secret to looking great in lingerie: Feel good. Once you feel good, you look good, too.”

“The difference between style and fashion is quality.”