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Quotes About Fashion

The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.
~ Honore de Balzac
Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth.
~ Jane Jacobs
I was told that when you hit forty men stop looking at you. It's true, until you slip on a mini-skirt.
~ Mariella Frostrup
Jumpsuits for men are always so difficult when you get to that one area.
~ Meryl Streep
While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can add a certain spice to a recipe.
~ Neil Gaiman
I'm designing what I want. If it's a man's coat with a pair of skinny-leg jeans, I'll do that. It's whatever my mood is. But it's about style, and it's about an understated taste that's cool.
~ Ralph Lauren
I am going to get political on you. Because I am the most shallow person in the world, my mission is to see men's formal wear change a little bit. It is too rigid! Everybody looks like a penguin!
~ Steven Cojocaru
Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
~ Sydney J. Harris
Most suits made the man. Gideon did things to a three-piece suit that should've been illegal.
~ Sylvia Day
Men don't wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that.
~ Tom Ford
Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
~ William Shakespeare
I want men to be more chic - and Japanese style has that kind of sophisticated elegance.
~ Roberto Cavalli
A little jewellery on a man is OK, although he should never wear too much. Every man should always have a great watch.
~ Tamara Mellon
I think I've become the go-to mustache man. It works in period pieces. Modern-day mustaches are probably creepy. But I get compliments - everyone's like, 'Wow, love the 'stache, dude.
~ Jack Huston
I love the idea of working with women because I always feel like a man designing womenswear needs women around him to really have a sense of what they're doing.
~ Jason Wu
Above all, John Galliano menswear is all about good design. And men have been short-changed by good design for too long.
~ John Galliano
I think there is a certain fascination with a man's hair.
~ Justin Hawkins
A well dressed man is a best accessory a woman can have
~ Coco Chanel
In a world where every man and his dog is a designer, Alexander McQueen was the real deal. His talent was supersonic.
~ Philip Treacy
I didn't invent hot water. But when I approach menswear, I do it in a very honest way. And my menswear and womenswear are very similar, in the sense that I put men in leggings and lace shirts.
~ Riccardo Tisci
Of all the wonderful things that men and women share, shoes, tragically, are not one of them. This is because men lack the shoe chromosome.
~ Mimi Pond
I just dress like... I'm an old black man. Sorry! Like I'm an old Jewish black man. I just dress like it's still the '50s.
~ Amy Winehouse
There is room in today's world for men to wear dresses.
~ Andre Leon Talley
I'm a firm believe that a man looks his best in a suit and I feel like in the late 40's people just dressed up to do everything.
~ Anthony Mackie