Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Fashion
Make up is generally there to make you look better, not make you look like you're wearing make up.
-Hadley Freeman
It is impossible to be completely abstract about clothes because they have no life unless they are worn. They must fit onto a body or they do not exist.
-Elizabeth Hawes
"Why is a Dress?"
Women want to wear what they do because of what goes on in their heads. Their size and shape have practically nothing to do with it.
-Elizabeth Hawes
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
Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Look to the heel, young man. The sex is in the heel.
-Anonymous
"The movie, “Kinky Boots"
Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
-Margaret Oliphant
No need for everyone to look the same.
The secret is to wear what suits you best!
-Chica Umino
"Honey and Clover”, Volume 4"
To me, clothing is a form of self-expression - there are hints about who you are in what you wear.
-Mark Jacobs
