Quotes About Fashion

Every reputation founded upon the fashion or the fancy of the hour, or upon the short-lived follies of Paris, produces its Pons. No place in the world is so inexorable in great things; no city of the globe so disdainfully indulgent in small.

I have to admit that I'm up to my neck in frivolity, buried in dresses to the point of ruin! Fifteen different garments! My wardrobe jam-packed! My girl, this is not the way for an old woman to behave - particularly since you never wear anything but black and white, or a little grey, so that you always look as though you were in the same dress. Why fritter away your money so absurdly? (22 August 1919)

That's my great-granddaughter you just heard. Gets all her talent from me!" He has appropriated my family in typical Xavier fashion. They don't seem to mind.

she wore a beautifully cut suit, her blond hair elegantly styled, her makeup flawless.

He owned an apricot polo shirt, and ironed it himself. Yes, he was probably gay.

handbag strap tangled around her chair.

Now that's true love: a man who is prepared to wear a cravat for you.

Nakedness makes us democratic, adornment makes us individuals.

Polo sheets is what I lands on.

But this is Miami, you can't come to Miami and not show any skin. You gotta show something. If you're all covered up in this heat, you're gonna make me pass out out just to look at you. It's sweaty in Miami-but the diamonds will keep me cool.

Dru Anderson: You should wear some gloves. Graves: Ruins the image. Dru Anderson: You'll goddamn well freeze to death. Graves: Hey, we've got to suffer for beauty. Chicks don't go for guys in gloves. Dru Anderson: How would you know? Graves: I know. You never said if you liked shooting pool. Dru Anderson: I don't, but I'll beat your ass at it, okay? Graves: Fine. If you can. Dru.

They all looked like a shampoo commercial, healthy and clear-skinned, perfectly proportioned, a group of handsome young men. Their clothes hung on them like they were glad to be gracing such supermodels.

I don't believe in getting clothes that just look pretty or that'll fall apart—they have to stand up to a lot of abuse.

there was fashion and there was idiocy, and while she was vain enough to love the former, she was not willing to indulge the latter.

A lady is one who never shows her underwear unintentionally.

I've never been in style, so I can never go out of style.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

We came from the bottom so we deserve to Balmain

mind Nell was writing: —ornamentation of neck, wrists, fingers —paint on face only

Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't.

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?

If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?

I did that Dior Couture 60th anniversary show in July. It took so long to get ready, I think I would have rather been watching.

Lord Malquist and Mr Moon was the literary equivalent of the Wonderbra for intellectually pretentious students of the seventies.