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Nobody creates a fad. It just happens. People love going along with the idea of a beautiful pig. It's like a conspiracy.
-Jim Henson
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The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind -- the mind of a fighter -- in which the virtues of tribal cohesion and fierceness and infantile credulity and malleability are paramount. Thus every new beginning recapitulates in some degree man's first beginning.
-Eric Hoffer
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To the old, the new is usually bad news.
-Eric Hoffer
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The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
-Eric Hoffer
The Passionate State of the Mind, 1954
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Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take.
-Kathy Ireland
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Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a gray one.
-Samuel Johnson
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Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion -- it exists to be destroyed. If everybody did everything with respect, you'd go nowhere.
-Karl Lagerfeld
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Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
-Hedy Lamarr
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The beggar wears all colors fearing none.
-Charles Lamb
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People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.
-Ralph Lauren
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The same costume will be Indecent 10 years before its time, Shameless 5 years before its time, Outr? (daring) 1 year before its time, Smart, Dowdy 1 year after its time, Hideous 20 years after its time, Ridiculous 20 years after its time, Amusing 30 years after its time, Quaint 50 years after its time, Charming 70 years after its time, Romantic 100 years after its time, Beautiful 150 years after its time.
-James Laver
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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
-G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg
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Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
-John Locke
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Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you.
-John Malkovich
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The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates.
-David Mamet
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Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.
-Paul De Man
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Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding.
-Queen Maria
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It is principally for the sake of the leg that a change in the dress of man is so much to be desired. The leg is the best part of the figure and the best leg is the man s. Man should no longer disguise the long lines, the strong forms, in those lengths of piping or tubing that are of all garments the most stupid.
-Alice Meynell
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Glamour, that trans-human aura or power to attract imitation, is a kind of vessel into which dreams are poured, and some vessels are simply worthier than others... A beautiful woman can turn heads but real glamour has a deeper pull... Glamour is the power to rearrange people's emotions, which, in effect, is the power to control one's environment.
-Arthur Miller
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The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.
-Henry Miller
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A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
-Michel de Montaigne
Essays, I. 26
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High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
-Christopher Morley
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So dress and conduct yourself so that people who have been in your company will not recall what you had on.
-John Newton
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If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion, insofar as it sets that three-quarters free and communicates self-confidence and mutual cheerful agreeableness to those who know they are subject to its law.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
-Dorothy Parker
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Books about Fashion
