Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Fashion
Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.
-Karl Lagerfeld
No need for everyone to look the same.
The secret is to wear what suits you best!
-Chica Umino
"Honey and Clover, Volume 4"
Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.
-Coco Chanel
When a woman smiles, then her dress should smile too.
-Madeleine Vionnet
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-Oscar Wilde
Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.
-Karl Lagerfeld
A beautiful dress may look beautiful on a hanger, but that means nothing. It must be seen on the shoulders, with the movement of the arms, the legs, and the waist.
-Coco Chanel
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?"
