FASHION QUOTES VIII

quotations about fashion

The last person to adopt a ridiculous fashion suffers more derision than the one who first adopted it.

LEWIS F. KORNS

Thoughts

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Today, every principle of identity is affected by fashion, precisely because of its potential to revert all forms to non-origin and recurrence. Fashion is always retro, but always on the basis of the abolition of the passé (the past): the spectral death and resurrection of forms. Its proper actuality (its 'up-to-dateness', its 'relevance') is not a reference to the present, but an immediate and total recycling.

JEAN BAUDRILLARD

Symbolic Exchange and Death

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Fashion is fortunately no law but to its devotees.

HORACE WALPOLE

letter to the Earl of Strafford, Jun. 24, 1783

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Fashion is a sieve, and money spent on it as dust.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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The mind is often indicated by outward dress.

SAMUEL RICHARDSON

Clarissa


Fashions change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

DANTE ALIGHIERI

The Divine Comedy


He who goes against the fashion is himself a slave.

LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH

All Trivia

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