Oscar Wilde Quotes About Fashion
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People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.
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One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
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Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.
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Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.
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Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.
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Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
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Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.
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Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And falsehoods the truths of other people. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
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Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.
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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.
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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
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Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.
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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
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Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
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