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Quotes About Fashion

It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.
~ Coco Chanel
Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.
~ Coco Chanel
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
A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion
~ Coco Chanel
Fashion changes, but style endures.
~ Coco Chanel
Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!
~ Coco Chanel
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
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
~ Coco Chanel
Fashion does not exist unless it goes down into the streets.
~ Coco Chanel
I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed.
~ Coco Chanel
Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart.
~ Coco Chanel
I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.
~ Coco Chanel
Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.
~ Coco Chanel
Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.
~ Coco Chanel
I never met a model I didn't like," says Nick Laws in The Shallow Man (The Dolce Vita Press, 2010/thedolcevitapress.com)
~ Unknown
In olden days, a glimpse of stockingWas looked on as something shocking,But now, God knows,Anything goes.
~ Cole Porter
The seventeenth of March. In other words, spring. Desmond, people who think themselves smart, I mean those in the height of fashion, women or men - can they afford to wait any longer before buying their spring wardrobes?
~ Colette
As it happens, there are three things in particular that suit me very ill: feathered hats, general ideas, and earrings.
~ Colette
His jacket was a little too large and his choice of tie made you think he didn't have a wife at home, at least not a fully sighted one.
~ Unknown
If it's good, they'll stop making it.
~ Unknown
The edelweiss was more than a plant, it was a fashion. Everyone wore some kind of talisman: badges and pins with edelweiss and gentian, or airplanes and tanks, or various types of weapons.
~ Herta Muller
I was born in the '60s and grew up in the '70s - not exactly the best decade for food in British history. It was horrendous. It was a time when, as a nation, we excelled in art and music and acting and photography and fashion - all creative skills... all apart from cooking.
~ Heston Blumenthal
Being a well-dressed man is a career, and he who goes in for it has no time for anything else.
~ Heywood Broun
Could he possibly believe a purple tunic over a butler- yellow shirt and scarlet pants became him.
~ Hilari Bell