Fashion Quotes

After I read different quotes on fashion in the process of collecting them for this site; fashion looked like a funny, interesting thing. People have said a lot about it, here are a few selected ones.

A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde

I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent.  A person, yes.
Robert A. Heinlein

Fashions fade; style is eternal.
Yves Saint Laurent

I base most of my fashion sense on what doesn’t itch.
Gilda Radner

Fashion is a social agreement — the result of a consensus of a large group of people.
Stella Blum

For me, clothes are kind of character; I don’t follow fashion or understand trends.
Meryl Streep

The finest clothing made is a person’s skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.
Mark Twain

When in doubt, wear red.
Bill Blass

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.
Françoise Sagan

Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends.
Janice Dickinson

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

Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.
Margaret Thatcher

Only great minds can afford a simple style.
Stendhal

Fashions are born and they die too quickly for anyone to learn to love them.
Bettina Ballard

Kindness is always fashionable.
Amelia E. Barr

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

Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.
Moliere

Fashion is never in crisis because clothes are always necessary.
Achille Maramotti

Bravery never goes out of fashion.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
Victor Hugo

So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
Pope Benedict XVI

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
Nicolas de Chamfort

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
Coco Chanel

Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.
E. T. Bell

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.
Golda Meir

Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.
Queen Marie of Romania

Fashion is more about feel than science.
Pharrell Williams

Follow sound business trends, not fashion trends.
Janice Dickinson

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

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashion.
Lillian Hellman

I like to play dress up, I’m in love with fashion.
Fantasia Barrino