Fashion Quotes

Paris and Fashion. Books and Art. What would one be ... without the other?

~ Peggy Kopman-Owens

To tell you the truth, I dislike anything that is in fashion.

~ Maraso

The outer garments of to-day will become the under-clothes of some destined to-morrow, and centuries hence a man found walking on the public highways dressed as you are will be arrested by the police for shocking the sense of propriety of the community, and so on. It will go on and on until you will find human beings everywhere decked out in layer after layer of clothes until he or she has lost all semblance to that beautiful thing that an all-wise Providence has designed us to be.

~ John Kendrick Bangs

fashion has a right to exist, because it permits people to define themselves over and over again.

~ Ann Demeulemeester

As I’ve said before, “the Mod generation”, contrary to popular belief, was not born in even 1958, but in the 1920s after a steady gestation from about 1917 or so. Now, Mod certainly came of age, fully sure of itself by 1958, completely misunderstood by 1963, and in a perpetual cycle of reinvention and rediscovery of itself by 1967 and 1975, respectively, but it was born in the 1920s, and I will maintain this. I don’t care who disagrees with me, and there are dozens of reasons that I do so —from the Art Deco aesthetic, to flapper fashions (complete with bobbed hair), to androgyny and subtle effeminacy, to jazz.

~ Ruadhán J. Mcelroy

Let those who love me follow me'Cora Pearl, on being the very first person to dye her hair red in 1864

~ Cora Pearl

At its best fashion is a game. But for women it's a compulsory game, like net ball, and you can't get out of it by faking your period. I know I have tried. And so for a woman every outfit is a hopeful spell, cast to influence the outcome of the day. An act of trying to predict your fate, like looking at your horoscope. No wonder there are so many fashion magazines. No wonder the fashion industry is worth an estimated 900 billion dollars a year. No wonder every woman's first thought is, for nearly every event in her life, be it work, snow or birth. The semi-despairing cry of but what will I wear? Because when a woman says I have nothing to wear, what she really means is there is nothing here for who I am supposed to be today.

~ Caitlin Moran

Newsflash she already has body image issues. It's an intrinsic part of being a woman. Every woman in the world has some part of herself that she absolutely hates. Her hands are too small, her feet are too big, her hair is too straight, too curly, her ears stick out, her bums too flat, her nose is too big and, you know, nothing you can say will change how we feel. What men don't understand is, the right clothes, the right shoes, the right makeup it just... It, it hides the flaws we think we have. They make us look beautiful to ourselves. That's what makes us look beautiful to others.Used to be all she needed to feel beautiful was a pink tutu and a plastic tiara.And we spend our whole lives trying to feel that way again.

~ Richard Castle

I had no name for that particular hue of orange, other than unfortunate.

~ Rachel Caine

One should never confuse fashionable with beautiful

~ Beth Fantaskey

These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.

~ Karl Lagerfeld

My motto for fashion: If you can’t afford to make an elegant statement, make a ridiculous one.

~ Stacey Jay

You must remember, Madame Harris, elegance is in the details.

~ Lynn Sheene

Fashion is life-enhancing and I think it's a lovely, generous thing to do for other people

~ Vivienne Westwood

The childish and savage taste of men and women for new patterns keeps how many shaking and squinting through kaleidoscopes that they may discover the particular figure which this generation requires to-day. The manufacturers have learned that this taste is merely whimsical. Of two patterns which differ only by a few threads more or less of a particular color, the one will be sold readily, the other lie on the shelf, though it frequently happens that after the lapse of a season the latter becomes the most fashionable. Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable.

~ Henry David Thoreau

I was sufficiently recovered from my nervous condition – or else the booze was beginning to work – to be able to discuss with Rudi the merits of checked or striped trousers, which had been the great debate among the London nobs that year. I was a check-er myself, having the height and leg for it, but Rudi thought they looked bumpkinish, which only shows what damned queer taste they had in Austria in those days. Of course, if you’ll put up with Metternich you’ll put up with anything.

~ George Macdonald Fraser

To have an independant mind, to think for oneself, not to follow fashion, not to seek honour or decoration, not to become part of the establishment

~ Marcel Schlumberge

Well, the ancients might not have been very heroic. Most of them were probably like Mother, crouched somewhere trying to work out how to make fake jawbone jewelry that would look like the real thing.

~ Barbara Kingsolver

But it was fantasy, and she knew it. It was her fantasy, and the fantasy of everyone else who would look at her and at her pictures; and it would stop being real the moment the man with the camera stopped clicking.

~ Umair Naeem

I'm always right, always wrong. Dressing bad's like loving you there is nothing i haven't worn. Nothing, I haven’t said before. You are nothing I haven’t felt before.

~ Tegan Quin

Even the simplest things had a glorious pointlessness to them. When buttons came in, about 1650, people couldn't get enough of them and arrayed them in decorative profusion on the backs and collars and sleeves of coats, where they didn't actually do anything. One relic of this is the short row of pointless buttons that are still placed on the underside of jacket sleeves near the cuff. These have been purely decorative and have never had a purpose, yet 350 years later on we continue to attach them as if they are the most earnest necessity.

~ Bill Bryson

That civet-jasmine blend you're wearing tonight absolutely clashes with the third-level formal style of your dress, you know.

~ Lois Mcmaster Bujold

She let her mind drift, thinking about new lingerie designs, wishing she'd brought along her sketchpad. Inspiration could strike at the most inconvenient times--in the shower, in the car, on this road--but she was grateful it was with her again, an old companion with whom she was getting reacquainted, pleased to find they could take up where they'd left off, as if there'd been no estrangement at all.

~ Heather Barbieri

Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth,but to make them beautifu

~ Coco Chanel

I never intended being a business person I wanted to be a fashion designer.

~ Anna Sui

Rock n' roll is not just a fashion statement; it is the attitude, and it has a political posturing as well.

~ Ceelo Green

I hope people will say, 'Mr. Valentino, he did something for fashion, no?'

~ Valentino Garavani

I hope I am the antithesis of disposable fashion.

~ Jason Wu

Fashion is my passion, and I respect the creativity that you find in its different levels.

~ Max Azria

Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer.

~ Giorgio Armani

I was pretty much a child of 'Monty Python.' I grew up loving that type of humor and even structured a lot of humor in the same fashion.

~ Michael Jai White

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

My personal style falls between casual cool and meticulous slob. I'm most comfortable in jeans, but I love fashion.

~ Reid Scott

Barcelona is one of my favourite cities in the world. The fashion and people are just so effortlessly cool.

~ Leigh Lezark

I think it's cool that London Fashion Week is about young designers trying wacky things.

~ Alexa Chung

Anything I get to wear to the Met Ball is huge. I'm not a fashion girl, so it's cool to be dolled up and have those diamonds where they send armed guards with you.

~ Chrissy Teigen

I'm still a student of fashion, but I like hooking up with the people that really know how to make cool clothes.

~ Olivia Wilde

I want to create a lifestyle niche for that cool girl who's really into fashion but not too obsessed with it.

~ Erin Wasson

The plus size movement is not just about fashion; it's about body image, and if we're doing a shoot, they won't retouch us at all. That's the cool thing: there's no retouching at all because we want to give girls the truth, not a fabrication.

~ Hayley Hasselhoff

Fashion shows are really my way of communication.

~ Dries Van Noten