quotations about fashion
A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
SOPHIA LOREN
attributed, How to Be a Hepburn in a Hilton World
I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.
COCO CHANEL
attributed, The Gospel According to Coco Chanel
Fashion is fortunately no law but to its devotees.
HORACE WALPOLE
letter to the Earl of Strafford, Jun. 24, 1783
Today, every principle of identity is affected by fashion, precisely because of its potential to revert all forms to non-origin and recurrence. Fashion is always retro, but always on the basis of the abolition of the passé (the past): the spectral death and resurrection of forms. Its proper actuality (its 'up-to-dateness', its 'relevance') is not a reference to the present, but an immediate and total recycling.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
Symbolic Exchange and Death
Fashion is a sieve, and money spent on it as dust.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
He who goes against the fashion is himself a slave.
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH
All Trivia
The mind is often indicated by outward dress.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON
Clarissa