Fashion Quotes

Most popular fashion quotes

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others. - Benjamin Franklin quote.
Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. quote.
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. - Henry David Thoreau quote.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Fashions fade; style is eternal.

beauty style

Even when we say nothing our clothes are talking noisily to everyone who sees us, telling them who we are, where we come from, what we like to do in bed and a dozen other intimate things.
The way to go from rags to riches is to start by getting a decent set of rags.

success

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau quote.
We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

business

I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece.
The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her. - Mary Quant quote.
The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.
Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today. - Mary Quant quote.
Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today.
"Style" is an expression of individualism mixed with charisma. Fashion is something that comes after style.
Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics. - George Bernard Shaw quote.
Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich. - Nicolas Chamfort quote.
Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've been well supervised. - Upton Sinclair quote.
I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've been well supervised.
Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury. - Coco Chanel quote.
Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.
Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken. - William Hazlitt quote.
Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken.
Clothes and courage have so much to do with each other.
The fashion of this world passeth away.
— 1 Corinthians 7:31

biblical

A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life. - Oscar Wilde quote.
A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork. - Jonathan Swift quote.
She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.
Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

style elegance

All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the un-admitted desire to undress. - Lin Yutang quote.
All women's dresses, in every age and country, are merely variations on the eternal struggle between the admitted desire to dress and the un-admitted desire to undress.
Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul.
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future. - Coco Chanel quote.
Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

elegance

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.
A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view. - Sophia Loren quote.
A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
A perfume is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion. . . . that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure. - Coco Chanel quote.
A perfume is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion. . . . that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear. - Anatole France quote.
Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.

men

If you've got it, wear it.
Women's rear ends just weren't made for pants. - Coco Chanel quote.
Women's rear ends just weren't made for pants.
Don't follow it blindly into every dark alley. Always remember that you are not a model or a mannequin for which the fashion is created. - Marlene Dietrich quote.
Don't follow it blindly into every dark alley. Always remember that you are not a model or a mannequin for which the fashion is created.
Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women. - Elsa Schiaparelli quote.
Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.
Fashion, n.  A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey. - Ambrose Bierce quote.
Fashion, n.  A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only; fashion is something in the air. - Coco Chanel quote.
Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only; fashion is something in the air.
I like fashion to do down to the street, but I can't accept that it should originate there. - Coco Chanel quote.
I like fashion to do down to the street, but I can't accept that it should originate there.
Fashion is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas.
We worship ... Fashion.  She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority.  The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveller's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same. - Henry David Thoreau quote.
We worship ... Fashion.  She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority.  The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveller's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.
Fashion rests upon folly.  Art rests upon law.  Fashion is ephemeral.  Art is eternal.  Indeed what is a fashion really?  A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! - Oscar Wilde quote.
Fashion rests upon folly.  Art rests upon law.  Fashion is ephemeral.  Art is eternal.  Indeed what is a fashion really?  A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months!
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. - Henry David Thoreau quote.
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. - Oscar Wilde quote.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned. - Oscar Wilde quote.
It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.