Quotes on Fashion and Taste
Opinionated quotations from the famous and not-so-famous.

I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.

Gilda Radner

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

Coco Chanel

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

Dame Edith Sitwell

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

Samuel Butler

Form follows function.

Louis Henri Sullivan

Every generation laughs at the old fashions but religiously follows the new.

Henry David Thoreau

Fashionabilty is a kind of elevated vulgarity.

G. Darley

What exactly does the tie represent? Is it simply a cloth arrow that points to the crotch as a crude reminder to all that men have penises or does it symbolize a leash that men voluntarily wear to show their allegiance to their overlords?

Duane Alan Hahn

Fashion, for the most part, is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

John Locke

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

Dale Carnegie

Fashion ignores safety, comfort, and common sense. A guaranteed attractant for millions of vacuous minds.

Duane Alan Hahn

"You must be in fashion," is the utterance of weak-headed mortals.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.

Yves Saint-Laurent

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Oscar Wilde

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

Coco Chanel

Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.

Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

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

George Santayana

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

Eric Hoffer

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.

Lichtenberg

You should aim to be independent of any one vote, of any one fashion, of any one century.

Gracian

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