Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
-Henry David Thoreau
Quotations
Fashion
I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot!
-Marilyn Monroe
Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
-Quentin Crisp
When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald"
No need for everyone to look the same.
The secret is to wear what suits you best!
-Chica Umino
"Honey and Clover”, Volume 4"
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
The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.
-Mary Quant
Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory.
-Karl Lagerfeld
The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.
-Karl Lagerfeld
