157 Fashion Quotes

My look is attainable. Women can look like Audrey Hepburn by flipping out their hair, buying the large sunglasses, and the little sleeveless dresses.

Yeah, there are too many Jews in chess. They seem to have taken away the class of the game. They don't seem to dress so nicely, you know. That's what I don't like.

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

I wouldn't dream of following a fashion... how could one be a different person every three months?

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something.

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

They almost had to cancel the Oscars tonight because all of the designers and stylists are still in line in San Francisco trying to marry one another.

You are never to lose sight of nature; the instant you do, you are all abroad, at the mercy of every gust of fashion, without knowing or seeing the point to which you ought to steer.

There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.

I'm much more self-conscious clothed than unclothed. I'm a frustrated Page Three girl. I have no shame about my body.

It's been very satisfying to design a range which is all about shape. It's not about what size you are, it's about how you can minimise or accentuate parts of your body with clothing. That's what we've created.

It is a myth that style can't be learnt. It's all about dressing for your body shape, following the rules and wearing colours that suit your skin tone.

As for the people who say tackling problems through clothes is superficial, I think they say that because they have their own issues about self worth.

'I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour.'

The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation... they do not want to attract attention.

The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.

So nice to be a fashion icon in my day.

I don't know who invented High heels but all women owe him a lot.

'Disco is a major influence in the world of fashion. It is a dynamic factor in contemporary advertising. It is a message from every consumer that there has been a rediscovery of America's greatest by-product: fun.'

Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity of mind, the heartlessness, the frivolity which is the necessary result of this false and debasing estimate of women, can only be fully understood by those who have mingled in the folly and wickedness of fashionable life.

You just don't expect posh girls to grab your tits, call your trousers 'too clitty' and use words like 'pussy pelmet' but they do. You are so shocked by what they are saying that by the time you have recovered and thought of something to say they have whipped you out of your jeans and eased you into a Lycra cat suit.

A true beanie should have a propellor on the top.

'People at the top are closing ranks so tightly that all possibility of subjective deviation has gone, and difference can be sought only in the more distinguished cut of an evening dress.'

The great attraction of fashion is that it diverted attention from the insoluble problems of beauty and provided an easy way- which money could buy... to a simply stated, easily reproduced ideal of beauty, however temporary that ideal.

If you want to make the best of yourself you don't necessarily need to diet - you need to wear the right stuff.

I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.

Justice is as much a matter of fashion as charm is. (309)

A child develops individuality long before he develops taste. I have seen my kid straggle into the kitchen in the morning with the outfits that need only one accessory: an empty gin bottle.

They look quite promising in the shop, and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels sorry for them.

Whenas in silks my Julia goes, Then, then (methinks) how sweetly flows That liquefaction of her clothes. Next, when I cast mine eyes and see That brave vibration each way free; Oh how that glittering taketh me!

We've created a range of clothing which is almost like a prescription from the doctor. Our clothes do the same thing. If you're not happy with your bum, then there's a coat that's going to hide it. If you want to create a waist, there's a dress that's going to do that for you too. We've designed it very much around the female body.'

Generally speaking Scottish women are pretty good. Look at Sharleen Spiteri and Lulu - you've got two fabulously well-dressed women in different ways.

In my case I slob around in old clothes in the country. But I have the luxury of knowing I can pull myself out of that. So I don't feel bad about looking like shit.

By the end of the interview, I pluck up the courage to ask Susannah whether she thinks my bra fits. She stares at my chest: 'You're wearing a 34C and you should be in a 32DD.' I get home and check. She's right.

Distorting hackneyed words in hackneyed songs He turns revolt into a style, prolongs The impulse to a habit of the time.

Having an interest in clothes is a sign of vanity and English men don't like to be seen to be vain. That's what is so fantastic about this format, it gives men permission to take an interest in clothes and their appearance. And as a result their self-esteem goes up.

They're really designed so that our black coat will give you a waist, our trousers will hide your saddle bags, our cashmere makes your tits look great.

I'm happy with my shape. It's getting to a stage of acceptance and understanding how to dress to reproportion yourself.

The problem is that women try to dress like celebrities whose shape they just don't have. When you emulate someone else's dress sense with a different body shape it just doesn't work. And when you look bad, your confidence dips. Our advice is to go shopping armed with our body shape rules.

Trinny Woodall, one of the upper-crusty and scathingly blunt hosts of What Not to Wear, a hugely popular fashion makeover show on the BBC, does not mince words.

We are permitted to ride, providing we sit in a position ruinous to the horse; providing we wear a riding-habit long enough to hide the obscene human foot, weighed down by ten pounds of gravel to cheat the wind in its free blowing, so running the risk of disabling ourselves completely should accident throw us from the saddle. Think how we swim! We must even wear clothing in the water, and run the gauntlet of derision, if we dare battle in the surf minus stockings!

The dress of a woman of Lhassa, in its place is an invisible element of that place made visible.

How classy is it for me to wear these pink tennis shoes with my tux?

It's cool man, it's cool. Bring your green hat!

I think punk rock is dead, and has been for a long time. Any time people can start using a word to describe how people dress as opposed to what music is like stylistically or idealistically, it's a dead term as far as 'rock terms' go.

The problem with Christian belief--I mean real Christian belief, the belief that there is a God and a devil and a heaven and a hell--is that it is not a fashionable thing to believe.

'Runway is just old hat to me, sweetheart.' (from 'The Gay Model')

Tie or not for tonight? Button-down blue shirt?

'Never. You don't put a bumper sticker on a Mercedes-Benz. I've always been the antithesis of what's popular. If you can go into a library and the girl in there has her nipples pierced and chained together with a bunch of shrunken heads hanging off her eyebrow, then it's gotten pretty boring. If I go into the hospital and the doctor has a face tattoo and a goatee I'm out of there. I have nothing against people who have tattoos. I think body art is beautiful. In fact, a full page of the Megadeth website is devoted to people with body art. But for me, I'm 42 so if I had a tattoo, a couple of decades from now it's going to be a purple lump on my ass.' -interview on why he doesn't have any tattoos

I think I can pinpoint the one moment when the American style of dressing first appeared. It was in an appalling 1933 movie called Dancing Lady during an otherwise forgettable dance number. It also just happened to be Fred Astaire's first on-camera dance. But don't look at the steps. Look at the outfit: Astaire is wearing a single-breasted, soft flannel suit with two-tone spectator shoes and a turtleneck. You wish you could look that stylish! Later that year, in Flying Down to Rio, we get the full Astaire impact. The muted plaid suit is not all that striking, but Fred is wearing it with a soft button-down shirt, a pale woven tie, silk pocket square, bright horizontally striped hose and white bucks. Whoa! Now that's different. This melange of the classic and the sporty was an American innovation. As we approach the impeccable Astaire's 100th birthday on May 10, it's worth remembering that he remains the greatest exemplar of that style.

You looked so intense. Whatever you were saying, you seemed to mean it, and it wasn't amusing at all. Started quite a fashion. People keep looking for purpose now. Complicates everything

There are few more distressing sights than that of an Englishman in a baseball cap Yeah, we'll die in the class we were born That's a class of our own, my love

God, look at the flare on these pants. I feel like a Clydsdale...(long pause)...that's a horse.' -November 1, 2005, Beacon Theatre, NYC

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

C'mon down to Ted's of Beverly Hills Steakhouse, I want to tell you its a very classy experience; we'd like you to wear a suitcoat if you wouldn't mind. We have had a high incidence of cardigan sweaters. Please look like you belong in our restaurant when you come to our restaurant, we'll give you a great steak...

I'd like to say Roy Rogers would've given up Trigger for the western wedding outfit I had on.

(to her friend) See, you can look thin even though you're not.

Honey, try wearing a thong. Then you don't have to worry about all those panty lines.

You know what you look like to me with your good bag and your bad shoes? You look like a ruuube.

You know what you look like with your good bag and your bad shoes? You look like a rube.

Prince : Game...Blouses.

But from the hoop's bewitching round, Her very shoe has power to wound.

This business manipulates and screws up women's - and men's - views of what we're all supposed to look like: My gender-bender style is apparently a bore.

Elvis is the greatest cultural force in the twentieth century. He introduced the beat to everything, music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution - the 60's comes from it.

Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages.

One and two and three and four, Tell them what the girlie wore. It was an itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka-dot bikini That she wore for the first time today, An itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka-dot bikini So in the locker she wanted to stay

Naples, Italy, summer of 1924. Happy, just arrived from Brazil, Count Francesco Matarazzo enters his favourite tailor shop. He checks measures, examines dozens of cuts of english fabric, he picks one. The old tailor finds that unusual:

I don't care how stylish something is if it doesn't flatter me.

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?

Where did you get that hat? (1953)

In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness; do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown; and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings.

If women dressed for men, the stores wouldn't sell much -- just an occasional sun visor.

I remember wanting to do something about that enormous-faced wristwatch she was wearing - perhaps suggest that she try wearing it around her waist.

What dreadful Hot weather we have!-It keeps one in a continual state of Inelegance.

It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire.

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.

As to matters of dress, I would recommend one never to be first in the fashion nor the last out of it.

'Dear Miss Manners: How is a hat correctly worn?

'Ralph Lauren was borin' before I worn him'

You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

They would talk of nothing but high life, and high-lived company, with other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.

And, ev'n while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy.

A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being immensely over-educated.

Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season.

Prismatic is the only word for those frightful tweeds and, oddly enough, the spectacle of them had the effect of steadying my nerves. They gave me the feeling that nothing mattered.