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Fashion Quotes
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Fashion Quotes
Read 59 famous fashion quotes from great authors, with links to more quote topics.
“Never wear anything that panics the cat.”P. J. O'Rourke
“A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.”P. J. O'Rourke
“I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.”Marilyn Monroe
“Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don't feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.”Marilyn Monroe
“Fashion is merely an opinion. And I've got a lot of opinions.”Kanye West
“There was a time Michael Jackson couldn't get his video on MTV because he was considered to be "urban." So I literally have to be the Michael Jackson of apparel in order to break down the doors for everyone who will come after.”Kanye West
"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new."Henry David Thoreau
“The apparel oft proclaims the man.”William Shakespeare
“One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.”Oscar Wilde
“If John Bull turns round to look after you, you are not well dressed.”
Beau Brummell
“Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.”Benjamin Franklin
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
Mark Twain
“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”Oscar Wilde
“A sweet disorder in the dress kindles in clothes a wantonness.”
Robert Herrick
“No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes.”Henry David Thoreau
“Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy.”William Shakespeare
“Clothes gave us individuality, distinctions, social polity.”
Thomas Carlyle
“A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.”Oscar Wilde
“A Dandy is a Clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office and existence consists in the wearing of Clothes.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Motley's the only wear.”William Shakespeare
“Fashion fades, only style remains the same.”
Coco Chanel
“Fashions fade, style is eternal.”Yves Saint Laurent
“Fashion is the armour to survive the reality of everyday life.”
Bill Cunningham
“Design is not for philosophy, it's for life.”
Issey Miyake