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Where's the man could ease a heart, like a satin gown?
-Dorothy Parker
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An accent mark, perhaps, instead of a whole western accent -- a point of punctuation rather than a uniform twang. That is how it should be worn: as a quiet point of character reference, an apt phrase of sartorial allusion -- macho, sotto voce.
-Phil Patton
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I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.
-Pablo Picasso
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In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking but now, God knows, anything goes.
-Cole Porter
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I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.
-Gilda Radner
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No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.
-Sir Walter Raleigh
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Before we set our hearts too much on anything, let us examine how happy are those who already possess it.
-Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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Every time a woman leaves off something she looks better, but every time a man leaves off something he looks worse.
-Will Rogers
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I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity -- all I hope for in my clothes.
-Yves Saint-Laurent
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.
-Yves Saint-Laurent
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A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
-Yves Saint-Laurent
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Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
-George Santayana
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Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.
-Elsa Schiaparelli
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The difference between the girls today and models of the past is that we are not only interested in fashion: we are going in so many different directions at once. We work harder -- at night and on weekends. On the modeling profession
-Claudia Schiffer
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No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
-Friedrich von Schiller
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The apparel oft proclaims the man.
-William Shakespeare
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Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man.
-William Shakespeare
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The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
-William Shakespeare
Much Ado about Nothing, 1598
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Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.
-George Bernard Shaw
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The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the spirit of its form shall communicate itself to the very disguise and indicate the shape it hides from the manner in which it is worn. A majestic form and graceful motions will express themselves through the most barbarous and tasteless costume.
-Percy Bysshe Shelley
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It's not that I don't want to be a beauty, that I don't yearn to be dripping with glamour. It's just that I can't see how any woman can find time to do to herself all the things that must apparently be done to make herself beautiful and, having once done them, how anyone without the strength of mind of a foreign missionary can keep up such a regime.
-Cornelia Otis Skinner
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He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.
-Logan Pearsall Smith
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You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate.
-Logan Pearsall Smith
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You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.
-C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon
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For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can't possibly fit. Without these visual references, each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique.
-Gloria Steinem
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Books about Fashion
