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How to dress? When the money is going from you wear anything you like. When the money is coming to you, dress your best.
-Proverb
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Fashion is a tyrant from which there is no deliverance; all must conform to its whimsical.
-Proverb
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Always something new, seldom something good.
-Proverb
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Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant.
-Proverb
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There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.
-Joseph Addison
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She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
-Louisa May Alcott
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Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.
-Fred A. Allen
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A man should look as if he has bought his clothes with intelligence, put them on with care and then forgotten all about them.
-Hardy Amies
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The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn't look too strange in the country.
-Sir Hardy Amies
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.
-Hannah Arendt
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You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face.
-Daisy Ashford
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I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.
-David Bailey
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Fashions are born and they die too quickly for anyone to learn to love them.
-Bettina Ballard
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The New is not a fashion, it is a value.
-Roland Barthes
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All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind.
-Charles Baudelaire
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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
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It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a sort of insecurity which some find titillating. If a woman wears a high-heeled shoe it changes the apparent musculature of the leg so that you get an effect of twanging sinew, of tension needing to be released. Her bottom sticks out like an offering. At the same time, the lofty perch is an expression of vulnerability, she is effectively hobbled and unable to escape. There is something arousing about this declaration that she is prepared to sacrifice function for form.
-Stephen Bayley
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Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsqequently turns its back on bad and good alike.
-Eric Bently, "Introduction to Naked Masks by Luigi Pirandello", 1952
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When in doubt, wear red.
-Bill Blass
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Nineties style isn't.
-David Borenstein, December 19, 1999
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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.
-Bertolt Brecht
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Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.
-Robert Bresson
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An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.
-Robert Bresson
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If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-Beau Brummel
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Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
-Anthony Burgess
You've Had Your Time, 1990
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Books about Fashion
