Joan Rivers:
Does fashion matter? Always- though not quite as much after death.

Edith Konecky:
My mother insisted that I had to try things on to make sure they were becoming. Becoming what, I always asked.

Gilda Radner:
I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.

Elizabeth Hawes:
Fashion, the constant and needless change of things, is fast becoming one of the greater ills of all time.

Coco Chanel:
Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach:
So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date.

Claudia Shear:
Fashion absolutely matters, but it doesn't matter absolutely.

Coco Chanel:
Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Elsie de Wolfe:
It is not chic to be too chic.

Katherine Fullerton Gerould:
No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.

Elizabeth Bowen:
Fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me.

Eugenia Sheppard:
To call fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is ever wearable.

Mary Quant:
Fashion, as we knew it, is over; people wear now exactly what they feel like wearing.

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