Fashion Quotes

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. George Bernard Shaw

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

You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate. Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Fashion is made to become unfashionable. Coco Chanel

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. Michel de Montaigne

You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches. John Locke

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

The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates. David Mamet

Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt. Elsa Schiaparelli

In difficult times fashion is always outrageous. Elsa Schiaparelli

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come. Dante Alighieri

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit. George Santayana