Fashion Quotes

Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Yves Saint Laurent

Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
Quentin Crisp

Fashion is the most intense expression of the phenomenon of neomania, which has grown ever since the birth of capitalism. Neomania assumes that purchasing the new is the same as acquiring value. If the purchase of a new garment coincides with the wearing out of an old one, then obviously there is no fashion. If a garment is worn beyond the moment of its natural replacement, there is pauperization. Fashion flourishes on surplus, when someone buys more than he or she needs.
Stephen Bayley

There's never a new fashion but it's old.
Geoffrey Chaucer

Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.
Fred Allen

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
George Bernard Shaw

A designer is only as good as thestar who wears her clothes.
Edith Head

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

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

ThoreauI found out you can learn a lot about yourself as a person, too-while you're learning how to use fashion in your life.
Loretta Young

We will know twenty years from now what fashion is in Paris. Right now, there is general confusion.
Karl Lagerfeld

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
Manolo Blahnik

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

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

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde


What a deformed thief this fashion is.
William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

Not giving in to commercial pressure (but not being profitable) :
I believe I have not given in to systems whatever they might be... A Lacroix style has been born and even if it doesn't appeal to everyone, so much the better. The barefooted, jewelry-less woman, skimpily dressed in worn-out logs, creates a ghost-like vision that only satisfies the most pessimistic, of which I am not one....
Lacroix

I don't do fashion, I am fashion.
Coco Chanel

A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
Yves Saint Laurent

Women and fashion:

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

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.
Elsa Schiaparelli

I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
David Bailey