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Fashion QuotesWhat follows are fashion quotes from designers, models, writers, poets and simply witty people. Arranged alphabetically by author. The difference between style and fashion is quality. Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly. Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler. The fashion of this world passeth away. Fashion is a social agreement. the result of a consensus of a large group of people. 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. Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich. Fashion fades, only style remains the same. Fashion is made to become unfashionable. Fashion has two purposes: comfort and love. Beauty comes when fashion succeeds. Fashion is made to become unfashionable. There’s never a new fashion but it’s old. Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are. I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men. Have you ever seen a woman enter a shop and ask for "something just like the one I'm wearing"? I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.
So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date. As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded. The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly. Sometimes I wake up and I think I should start wearing a beret, but I don't do it. One day I'm gonna, though. You bet your ass, I will have a beret on. That's ridiculous, but it's true. I always fight with wearing a beret. Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. They seek him here, they seek him there, 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. On my darkest days, I wear my brightest colors. People used to throw rocks at me for my clothes...now they wanna know where I buy them. I think everyone should have a flashing tiara. People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams. Fashion is never in crisis because clothes are always necessary. Cinderella’s glass shoe was the perfect size. So why did it slip off as she ran?...It must have been to attract the attention of Prince Charming. I don’t see any other explanation. Fashion is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas. 
In the world of art, all things are possible. I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit In difficult times fashion is always outrageous. We live not according to reason, but according to fashion. Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions. Fashion is about eventually becoming naked. Return to Enjoy Your Style's quotes section. Return to Enjoy Your Style's home page. Search Enjoy Your Style: |
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