Eric Bently on Fashion
Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsqequently turns its back on bad and good alike.
Charles Caleb Colton on Fashion
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
Jean Cocteau on Fashion
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.
Lord Chesterfield on Fashion
If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.
Chaucer on Fashion
There's never a new fashion but it's old.
Anthony Burgess on Fashion
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
Baltasar Gracian on Fashion
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
William Hazlitt on Fashion
Fashon is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism: it is haughty, trifling, affected, servile, despotic, mean and ambitious, precise and fantastical, all in a breath -- tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.
Eric Hoffer on Fashion
The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
Voltaire on Fashion
It is new fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions.