"Fashion is about going ahead, not about memory."
Fashion quotes
Fashion
4.4K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Fashion
Browse quotes that often appear alongside fashion — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Fashion quotes (page 24 of 221)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Elegance has nothing to do with fashion."
"I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising."
"I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes - it's about all kinds of change"
"We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both."
"I am more vintage than I am high fashion."
"Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds."
"Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse."
"During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or another, from mainland Europe and the solution from outside it."
"I think the best way to invite people into the conversation is to just create something beautiful out of love, and people naturally gravitate towards a new way of looking at fashion."
"Fashion is expensive. Style is not. Some of the most stylish girls I know are certainly not the wealthiest."
"By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale."
"Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal." Even more unfortunately, the industries that are favored by such expansion must, to maintain their output, be devoted to goods that are readily consumable either by their nature, or because they are so shoddily fabricated that they must soon be replaced. By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale."
"Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more."
"Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time."
"[T]he cold warms me—after a different fashion from that of the kitchen stove."
"So dress and conduct yourself so that people who have been in your company will not recall what you had on."
"In our culture, futility plays the role of transgression and fashion is condemned for having within it the force of the pure sign which signifies nothing."
"I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence."
"For me, clothes are kind of character; I don't follow fashion or understand trends."