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Society is founded upon cloth.
-Thomas Carlyle
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If the cut of the costume indicates intellect and talent, then the color indicates temper and heart.
-Thomas Carlyle
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Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.
-Angela Carter
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Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
-Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort
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Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.
-Coco Chanel
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Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
-Coco Chanel
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Dress shabbily, they notice the dress. Dress impeccably, they notice the woman.
-Coco Chanel
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Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
-Coco Chanel
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Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
-Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
-Lord Chesterfield
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The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.
-Lord Chesterfield
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When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.
-Lord Chesterfield
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If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.
-Lord Chesterfield, "Letter to his son", April 30, 1750
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I was the first f****** hippy to enter this business, you know... I was one of the first girls to say I don't give a f*** about this whole supermodel thing.
-Helena Christensen
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There is no such thing as a moral dress. It's people who are moral or immoral.
-Jennie Jerome Churchill
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You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.
-Colley Cibber
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I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.
-Dick Clark
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You couldn't tell if she was dressed for an opera or an operation.
-Irvin S. Cobb
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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.
-Jean Cocteau, "New York World-Telegram & Sun", August 21, 1960
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Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden prey. She is the object of unbridled regard, a living bait, the passive realization of an ideal. No other female occupation contains such potent impulses to moral disintegration as this one, applying as it does the outward signs of riches to a poor and beautiful girl.
-Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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My weakness is wearing too much leopard print.
-Jackie Collins
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Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
-Charles Caleb Colton
Lacon, 1825
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I'd like to put on buckskins and a ponytail and go underwater with a reed, hiding from the Indians... To me, that's sexy!
-Kevin Costner
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Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.
-Lord Thomas Dewar
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What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?
-Princess of Wales Diana
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Books about Fashion
