On Fashion

“Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.”
Jean Cocteau

“Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.”
Quentin Crisp

“The dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress.”
Hubert de Givenchy

“Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.”
George Santayana

“Today, fashion is really about sensuality—how a woman feels on the inside. In the '80s women used suits with exaggerated shoulders and waists to make a strong impression. Women are now more comfortable with themselves and their bodies—they no longer feel the need to hide behind their clothes.”
Donna Karan

“Respect is love in plain clothes.”
Frankie Byrne

“Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.”
Henry J. Kaiser

“The lamb began to follow the wolf in sheep’s clothing.”
Aesop

“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on witha pitchfork.
Jonathan Swift

“When his wife asked him to change clothes to meet the German Ambassador: If they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits.”
Albert Einstein

“Clothes don’t make a man, but clothes have got many a man a good job.”
Herbert Harold Vreeland

“Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.”
Anatole France

“Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing."
Dave Barry

“While clothes may not make the woman, they certainly have a strong effect on her self-confidence — which, I believe, does make the woman."
Mary Kay Ashe

“The dress is a vase which the body follows. My clothes are like modules in which bodies move.”
Pierre Cardin

“I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.”
Katharine Hepburn

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain

“The expression a woman wears on her face is more important than the clothes she wears on her back.”
Dale Carnegie