Best fashion & taste Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Perfume has a long and fascinating history and the beautifully crafted bottles used to store it over the centuries demonstrate its importance. Each has mirrored the latest tastes in fashion technology, design and art.”

Long Art Used Technology Century Fashion Design Taste Importance Stores Fascinating Bottles Perfume Design And Art

Author:Judith Miller

“There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.”

Art Generations Fashion Design Taste Demand Clothes Heavy Appetite Mediocrity

Author:Paul Gauguin

“The less taste a person has in dress, the more obstinate he always seems to be.”

Persons Seems Fashion Taste Dresses Obstinate

Book:Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog

Source: Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog

“Truth, like beauty, varies its fashions, and is best recommended by different dresses to different minds; and he that recalls the attention of mankind to any part of learning which time has left behind it, may be truly said to advance the literatures of his own age. As the manners of nations vary, new topicks of persuasion become necessary, and new combinations of imagery are produced; and he that can accommodate himself to the reigning taste, may always have readers who perhaps would not have looked upon better performances.”

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“Taste is something quite different from fashion, superior to fashion.”

Different Fashion Taste Superiors

Author:William Makepeace Thackeray

“Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy; who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be able to distinguish themselves from the vulgar.”

Persons Able Fashion Taste Instance Fancy Restraint Vulgar Trifling

Book:The works in verse and prose, of William Shenstone, esq: in two volumes

Source: The works in verse and prose, of William Shenstone, esq: in two volumes

“Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.”

Fashion Taste Expenses Pursued

Book:Essays on Men and Manners

Source: Essays on Men and Manners

“Fashion is a tyrant from which nothing frees us. We must suit ourselves to its fantastic tastes. But being compelled to live under its foolish laws, the wise man is never the first to follow, nor the last to keep it.”

Men Firsts Lasts Law Wise Fashion Taste Foolish Suits Fantastic Tyrants Compelled

Author:Blaise Pascal

“Taste is often one of the aspects of fashion.”

Fashion Taste Aspect

Book:Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

Source: Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

“The only really firm rule of taste about cross dressing is that neither sex should ever wear anything they haven't yet figured out how to go to the bathroom in.”

Should Sex Fashion Havens Taste Crosses Firm Bathroom Dressings

Book:Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People

Source: Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People

“What's interesting about fashion is it's a world, and I think that's what I've done - I've made a contribution and I think I've built a world. The world is beyond just clothes. Taste and style is beyond clothes. It's in food; it's in quality.”

Thinking World Made Done Interesting Quality Fashion Style Taste Clothes Built Contribution

Author:Ralph Lauren

“I have been told by persons of experience in matters of taste, that the fashions follow a law of gradation, and are never arbitrary. The new mode is always only a step onward in the same direction as the last mode; and a cultivated eye is prepared for and predicts the new fashion.”

Persons Has Beens Matter Eye Lasts Law Steps Fashion Taste Prepared Arbitrary

Book:The Conduct of Life

Source: The Conduct of Life

“You think your friends have good taste in fashion, until they ask you to wear an ugly bridesmaid dress!”

Thinking Asks Fashion Taste Dresses Ugly Good Taste Bridesmaids

Author:Wendi McLendon-Covey

“Those who seem to load the public taste are, in general, merely outrunning it in the direction which it is spontaneously pursuing.”

Seems Fashion Taste Load

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“Vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. To be convinced of this we need only represent, on the one hand,the numberless benefits which result from vanity, as industry, the arts, fashions, politeness, and taste; and on the other, the infinite evils which spring from the pride of certain nations, a laziness, poverty, a total neglect of everything.”

Needs Art Hands Government Certain Evil Nations Results Poverty Fashion Dangerous Pride Industry Taste Benefits Spring Infinite Convinced Vanity Neglect Laziness Politeness

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“A gentleman's taste in dress is upon principle, the avoidance of all things extravagant. It consists in the quiet simplicity of exquisite neatness; but, as the neatness must be a neatness in fashion, employ the best tailor; pay him ready money, and, on the whole, you wi11 find him the cheapest.”

Whole Pay Principles Fashion Ready Taste Quiet All Things Dresses Simplicity Gentleman Exquisite Avoidance Extravagant Tailors Neatness

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Fashion is about having a point of view, a taste and a personality. For us we always felt we could apply our DNA really to anything but you have to do it if it's true to you, feels authentic. It has to be real.”

Ifs Feels Real Felt Views Fashion Personality Taste Point Of View Being Real Dna

Author:Karen Walker

“It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions”

Fashion Produce Taste Clothes Fancy

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)

“We haven't really changed, we've just gotten better at executing what we've always been trying to do. We're not really a band that has undergone huge stylistic decisions to change, we're just trying to follow the song. More and more, we let the song lead us - we don't try and put the song into a structure of our taste or our fashion.”

Trying Song Decision Fashion Havens Changed Huge Taste Band Structure Executing

Author:Torquil Campbell

“Fashion goes with the feeling of the moment. It's related to movies, to art, to young people's taste.”

People Art Moments Feelings Young Fashion Taste Related

Author:Gianni Versace

“Some people say I'm kinda country, but I like to take risks on fashion. I kinda go left sometimes, so you can get a taste of my personality.”

People Country Sometimes Left Risk Fashion Personality Taste

Author:Toni Braxton

“When it comes to fashion or any high art, you have to have a combination of delicacy, along with taste.”

Art Fashion Taste Combination Delicacy High Art

Author:Erykah Badu

“Daryl Hannah likes to goof around with fashion, but she does have pretty impeccable taste.”

Doe Fashion Taste Likes Impeccable Goofs

Author:Val Kilmer

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