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

"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. "
Henry David Thoreau

"Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other. "
Denise Klahn

"There's never a new fashion but it's old. "
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

"For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned. "
George Santayana

"Never despise fashion. It's what we have instead of God. "
Malcolm Bradbury

"Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen. "
George Bernard Shaw

"Nudists have no fashion sense. "
Peter Kunkel

"Fashion changes, style remains. "
Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel

"I am not an American who "will cut the cloth of my conscience to fit this year's fashions."
Lillian Helman

"Fashion is for people who don't know who they really are. "
Quentin Crisp

"Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess. "
Edna Woolman Chase

"Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike."
Eric Bently

"If you are not in fashion, you are nobody."
Lord Chesterfield

"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

"Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity."
Charles Caleb Colton

"The fashion wears out more apparel than the man."
William Shakespeare

"It is new fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions."
Voltaire

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