Fashion

"A man, woman, or child bundled up in the cold might be seen wearing gloves, hats, hosiery, and scarves that immediately imply function over fashion."

"The secret to looking great in lingerie: Feel good. Once you feel good, you look good, too."

"The difference between style and fashion is quality."

"Squinting upon the lustre Of the rich Rings which on his fingers glistre; And, snuffing with a wrythed nose the Amber, The Musk and Civet that perfum'd the chamber."

"Innovators are the cool ones who "pump" new fashions into our world … Most are ignored, but some get copied."

"FASHION, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey."

"When you put the corset on it gives you a glimpse into what those women's lives must have been like, a little bit. Just the fact that they did that to themselves to look a certain way gives you an idea of how important it was to be a proper young lady in those times, to kind of fit the mold of what they were trying to accomplish socially. The director, Jay Russell told me to use the corset as a device to remind myself that not only physically, but emotionally, she was trapped in her surroundings and wanted desperately to get out. It was definitely a reminder because the thing is so tight!"

"Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy."

"I like my money right where I can see it…hanging in my closet."

"He is only fantastical that is not in fashion."

"And as the French we conquer'd once, Now give us laws for pantaloons, The length of breeches and the gathers, Port-cannons, periwigs, and feathers."

"Paris dictates fashion to the whole world."

"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening."

"Fashion fades, only style remains the same."

"I don’t do fashion. I am fashion."

"Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance."

"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.” ― Coco Chanel"

"Fashion is architecture. It is a matter of proportions."

"Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess."

"Fashion—a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse."

"Style is a simple way of saying complicated things."

"Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are."

"Fashion is a major amnesiac that takes for a novelty what it burned two days ago."

"And now, I’m just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time."

"But down here, next to a display of Tommy Hilfiger, it's all started to go sideways on Cayce… My God, don't they know? This stuff is simulacra of simulacra of simulacra. A diluted tincture of Ralph Lauren, who had himself diluted the glory days of Brooks Brothers, who themselves had stepped on the product of Jermyn Street and Savile Row, flavoring their ready−to−wear with liberal lashings of polo knit and regimental stripes. But Tommy surely is the null point, the black hole. There must be some Tommy Hilfiger event horizon, beyond which it is impossible to be more derivative, more removed from the source, more devoid of soul."

"She finds the Children's Crusade just as she remembers it. Damien's expression for what descends on Camden Town on a Saturday, this shuffling lemming-jam of young people…Cayce has spent hours here, escorting the creative executives of the world's leading athletic-shoe companies through the ambulatory forest of the feet that have made their fortunes, and hours more alone, looking for little jolts of pure street fashion to e-mail home."

"The combined effect of so many ambulatory sticks and balls, each of whom wore an expression of complete self-satisfaction, added strength to my longstanding belief that the profession of couturier required only a good knowledge of fabric and a malicious sense of humor."

"Fashion is what you’re offered four times a year by designers. And style is what you choose."

"It was before the date when the browns we use on our wall papers began to be reverently studied from Thames mud, and the greens and yellows from mouldy cheese. No one as yet toned down tender dirty drab within to match the formless smoky drab without, no one adored rhubarb tints, or admired the colour resulting from mixtures of cocoa and milk."

"I was always really determined to look the way I wanted to look, and I wanted to cut my hair. I wanted to look different because I was used to looking different. Because of my religious background I'd always been encouraged to look different."

"The less taste a person has in dress, the more obstinate he always seems to be."

"Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable."

"Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!"

"It really annoys me that people think every model has an eating disorder, and every model is dumb. Most of the girls are naturally skinny, like me. I don’t have to watch what I eat. I love eating! Especially ice-cream and salty snacks."

"Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality."

"Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests."

"I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes — it’s about all kinds of change."

"Fashion is not necessarily about labels. It’s not about brands. It’s about something else that comes from within you.”"

"The trouble about the fashions is, there are too many going on at once, and you can't follow them all. Sometimes, I think I will give them all up, and just be dowdy."

"You can’t be melancholy in fashion because people don’t respond to it."

"Women should look like women. A piece of cardboard has no sexuality."

"It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable."

"Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one’s own, it is always 20 times better."

"It costs a lot of money to look this cheap."

"With hair, heels, and attitude, honey, I am through the roof."

"The fashion pages have always puzzled me. In my smugly ignorant view, the articles appear to be so full of fluff and nonsense as to make the astrology columns seem insightful by comparison."

"What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language.”"

"Fashions, being themselves begotten of the desire for change, are quick to change also."

"If I'm wearing jeans all day at work, it's [hard] to slip into a dress and make yourself feel like you were born in it. That sort of thing can really be the difference between a good look and a great look. You can have a great dress, but when you put it on and you feel like it's embodying who you are that day, that's not just fashion, that's style!"

"I have always believed that fashion was not made only to make women more beautiful, but also to reassure them, give them confidence."