"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening." - Coco Chanel
"Etiquette are for those without manners, in the same way as fashion is for those without style." - Coco Chanel
"Fashions fade, style is eternal." - Yves Saint Laurent
"In difficult times fashion is always outrageous." - Elsa Schiaparelli
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." - Oscar Wilde
"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." - Mark Twain
"Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make ourselves its slave" - Napoleon Bonaparte
"I'm not that interested in fashion... When someone says that lime-green is the new black for this season, you just want to tell them to get a life." - Bruce Oldfield
"All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind." - Charles Baudelaire
"We live not according to reason, but according to fashion" - Seneca
"It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions" - Voltaire
"Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen." - George Bernard Shaw
"Fashion must be forever new or she becomes insipid" - James Russell Lowell
"Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are." - Quentin Crisp
"One had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion." - Colley Cibber
"Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be." - Edwin Hubbel
"The only thing that separates us from the animals is our ability to accessorize." - Olympia Dukakis
"Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character." - Loretta Young
"Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time." - Jean Cocteau