And as the French we conquer'd once, Now give us laws for pantaloons, The length of breeches and the gathers Port-cannons, periwigs, and feathers. (Quote by - Samuel Butler (1))

Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of the future, and should never be static. (Quote by - Oleg Cassini)

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs. (Quote by - Manolo Blahnik)

Squinting upon the lustre Of the rich Rings which on his fingers glistre; And, snuffing with a wrythed nose the Amber, The Musk and Civet that perfum'd the chamber. (Quote by - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas)

Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse. (Quote by - Charles Churchill)

Style is primarily a matter of instinct. (Quote by - Bill Blass)

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women. (Quote by - Elsa Schiaparelli)

As good be out of the World as out of the Fashion. (Quote by - Colley Cibber)

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

All this I see; and I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man. But art not thou thyself giddy with the fashion too, that thou hast shifted out of thy tale into telling me of the fashion? (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men. (Quote by - Marlene Dietrich)

The expression a woman wears on her face is more important than the clothes she wears on her back. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)

So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date. (Quote by - Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach)

A good model can advance fashion by ten years. (Quote by - Yves Saint Laurent)

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

I don't design clothes. I design dreams. (Quote by - Ralph Lauren)

Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman's jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with. (Quote by - Karl Lagerfeld)

I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet. (Quote by - Giorgio Armani)

Fashion is made to become unfashionable. (Quote by - Coco Chanel)

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

The dress is a vase which the body follows. My clothes are like modules in which bodies move. (Quote by - Pierre Cardin)

The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in. (Quote by - Paris Hilton)

While clothes may not make the woman, they certainly have a strong effect on her self-confidence - which, I believe, does make the woman. (Quote by - Mary Kay Ashe)

It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions. (Quote by - Voltaire)