Quotes on Fashion

The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom or fashion or any worldly motive, profess or pretend to believe what they do not believe, nor can give any reason for believing, they unship the helm of their morality, and being no longer honest to their own minds they feel no moral difficulty in being unjust to others.

What a deformed thief this fashion is.

The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.

Elegance is a question of personality, more than one's clothing.

Fashion designers are dictators of taste.

God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.

Indeed, among the lesser auxiliaries to success in love, an absence, the declining of an invitation to dinner, an unintentional, unconscious harshness are of more service than all the cosmetics and fine clothes in the world.

The apparel oft proclaims the man.

Poor body, time and the long years were the first tailors to teach you the merciless use of clothes. Though some scold today because you are too much seen, to my mind, you are not seen fully enough or often enough when you are beautiful.

The soul of this man is his clothes.

Modesty died when clothes were born.

A hair shirt does not always render those chaste who wear it.

Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.

The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.

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

I think the moment that I'm very proud of is building a business without using animals. And, hopefully, changing people's perception of how you can do luxury fashion.

The difference between style and fashion is quality.

In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.

There is no better designer than nature

It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.