Quotes on Fashion

Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike.

Architecture is not just for the moment, it is not just for the next fashion magazine.

Fashion should be about making clothes that make all women look beautiful, not making women starve so that they can fit in a size 8.

The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.

We are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet a source of inspiration to those who have the pleasure of living with it.

If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods.

I think what I often see is that people are frightened about fashion. Because it scares them or makes them feel insecure, so they just put it down. On the whole people that may say the mean things about our world I think that’s usually because they feel, in some ways, excluded or, you know, not a part of ‘the cool group’ so as a result they just mock it.

Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion?

Style is wearing an evening dress to McDonald's, wearing heels to play football. It is personality, confidence and seduction.

My fashion is part of who I am, and though I was not born with these clothes on, I was born this way.

My career got off to a very shaky start when I dropped out of school at the age of 18. Despite my lack of academic credentials, I got a job as a fashion assistant at 'Harper's & Queen.'

It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.

Let us calmly and in a manly fashion go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary frettings and fumings. I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything he really deserves. The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still.

I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

Personally I do not resort to force - not even the force of law - to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion, and above all the influence of example - of fashion.

No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, few pray-ers; many singers, few clingers; lots of pastors, few wrestlers; many fears, few tears; much fashion, little passion; many interferers, few intercessors; many writers, but few fighters. Failing here, we fail everywhere.

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

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Fashion is in the sky, the streets, fashion has to do with ideas, the way in which we live, the events surrounding us.

Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.