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| "Den som går emot modet, är själv slav under det" | Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946) |
| Det enda i det nya modet som intresserar de kriminella är en liten detalj: Var sitter fickorna? | Jacques Moreton |
| Det tillhör modets paradoxala väsen att det är en periods kvinnodräkt som avslöjar vad som försiggår i det mansdominerade samhället. | Rudolf Broby-Johansen |
| En klänning ska sitta åt tillräckligt hårt för att visa att det finns en kvinna i den ... och tillräckligt löst för att visa att hon är en dam. | Peter Ustinov (1921-2004) |
| I dag ändrar sig modet så snabbt att man egentligen borde trycka Vogue och Harper's Bazaar som dagstidningar. | Peter Ustinov (1921-2004) |
| Mode existerar inte bara i fråga om kläder. Mode finns i skyn, på gatan, mode har att göra med idéer, vår livsstil, vad som sker. | Coco Chanel (1883-1971) |
| Mode har gjort mer skada än revolutionerna | Victor Hugo (1802-1885) |
| Mode är det man själv går med. Det som är omodernt är det andra människor går med. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Modeskapare är män som gör det näst bästa här i livet: klär på kvinnorna. | Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996) |
| Modet är behagsjukans kaleidoskop. | Rudi von Endt |
| Modet är civilisternas uniformstvång. | Claus Biederstaedt |
| Modet är ett diktat som ser ut som en rekommendation. | Senta Berger (1941-) |
| Modet är skapat för att bli omodernt. | Coco Chanel (1883-1971) |
| När en dam förr i världen böjde sig framåt var det en oskriven lag att man inte fick se hennes byst. I dag kan man jämföra dekolletaget med en papperskorg som bara väntar på att något ska kastas i den. | Coco Chanel (1883-1971) |
| Skönhet i stil, harmoni, elegans och bra rytm kommer av enkelhet. | Platon (427 f.Kr.-348 f.Kr.) |
| Vad är det för nytta med att klä sig efter senaste modet - man liknar ju sig själv iallafall? | Robert Storm Petersen (1882-1949) |
| Varje generation ler åt det svunna modet, men följer andäktigt det nya. | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| For kvinden er moden det vigtigste af alle stofskifter. | Karl Farkas |
| Jeg har ofte den mistanke, at modeskaberne er forklædte karrikaturtegnere. | Lil Dagover |
| Den topløse mode er det tåbelige forsøg på først at vise mændene løsningen og derpå gåden. | Luitgard Im |
| Mode er det, vi selv går med. Gammeldags er det, de andre går med. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| Mode begynder med mod - udvist af en nar. | Ove Fahnøe |
| Der er noget, jeg ikke forstår. Pigerne bliver mere og mere nøgne, men alligevel tjener modeskaberne og tekstilfabrikanterne stadig flere penge. | Peter Sellers (1925-1980) |
| Men's fashions all start as sports clothes and progress to the great occasions of state. The tail coat, which started out as a hunting coat, is just finishing such a journey. The track suit is just beginning one. | Angus McGill |
| Fashions are born and they die too quickly for anyone to learn to love them | Bettina Ballard |
| I'm not that interested in fashion... When someone says that lime-green is the new black for this season, you just want to tell them to get a life. | Bruce Oldfield (1950-) |
| One had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion | Colley Cibber (1671-1757) |
| Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting | Edmund Clarence Stedman |
| I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu. | Elle Macpherson (1964-) |
| Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt. | Elsa Schiaparelli (1896-1973) |
| Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike. | Eric Bentley (1916-) |
| Please do not have a fit in the fitting room. Your fashion life begins there. | Florence Eiseman |
| Above all, remember that the most important thing you can take anywhere is not a Gucci bag or French-cut jeans; it's an open mind | Gail Rubin Bereny |
| "Style" is an expression of individualism mixed with charisma. Fashion is something that comes after style. | John Fairchild (1927-) |
| A character is a completely fashioned will. | Novalis (1772-1801) |
| Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place. | Paul de Man |
| In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to being in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved | Russell Baker (1925-) |
| Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul. | Stella Blum |
| Fashion is a social agreement. the result of a consensus of a large group of people. | Stella Blum |
| Fashions fade, style is eternal. | Yves Saint Laurent (1936-) |
| The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws | Alexandre Dumas Père (1802-1870) |
| Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets. | Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) |
| Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. | Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) |
| Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit. | George Santayana (1863-1952) |
| I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch. | Gilda Radner (1946-1989) |
| Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom. | Golda Meir (1898-1978) |
| Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti | Jacques Barzun (1907-) |
| So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date. | Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830-1916) |
| To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony. William Henry Channing's Symphony: some background, and its appearance in an Arthur Brisbane editorial - from the 1906 collection, "Editorials From The Hearst Newspapers" | William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) |
| Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| We live not according to reason, but according to fashion | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates. | Dave Barry (1947-) |
| Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening. | Coco Chanel (1883-1971) |
| Fashions fade, style is eternal. | Yves Saint Laurent (1936-) |
| There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. | Ayn Rand (1905-1982) |
| My advice to young film-makers is this: Don't follow trends, Start them! | Frank Capra (1897-1991) |
| I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men. | Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992) |
| Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt. | Elsa Schiaparelli (1896-1973) |
| On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure. | Coco Chanel (1883-1971) |
| I'm not that interested in fashion... When someone says that lime-green is the new black for this season, you just want to tell them to get a life. | Bruce Oldfield (1950-) |
| Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are. | Quentin Crisp (1908-1999) |
| Please do not have a fit in the fitting room. Your fashion life begins there. | Florence Eiseman |
| Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. | Francis Bacon (1909-1992) |
| Above all, remember that the most important thing you can take anywhere is not a Gucci bag or French-cut jeans; it's an open mind | Gail Rubin Bereny |
| Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| "Style" is an expression of individualism mixed with charisma. Fashion is something that comes after style. | John Fairchild (1927-) |
| Even when adults do feel their safety to be threatened, we may not be able to see this on the surface. Infants will react in a fashion as if they were endangered, if they are disturbed or dropped suddenly, startled by loud noises, flashing light, or | Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) |
| Fashion is about good energy. It's about feelings. That's what I have to give the people, good energy and good feelings | Adriana Lima (1981-) |
| It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. | Anatole France (1844-1924) |
| You may, if you are an old-fashioned schoolmaster, wish to consider yourself full of universal benevolence and at the same time derive great pleasure from caning boys. In order to reconcile these two desires you have to persuade yourself that caning | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| The fashion of this world passeth away | Bible |
| Fashion is made to become unfashionable. | Coco Chanel (1883-1971) |
| There is no fashion for the old. | Coco Chanel (1883-1971) |
| I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules,including:* Both of your socks should always be the same color,* Or they should at least both be fairly dark. | Dave Barry (1947-) |
| I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu. | Elle Macpherson (1964-) |
| Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt. | Elsa Schiaparelli (1896-1973) |
| Fashion is a tyrant from which there is no deliverance; all must conform to its whimsical | French Proverb |
| There's never a new fashion but it's old. | Geoffrey Chaucer (1342-1400) |
| Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. | George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) |
| For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old fashioned | George Santayana (1863-1952) |
| The difference between style and fashion is quality. | Giorgio Armani (1934-) |
| Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom. | Golda Meir (1898-1978) |
| The fashion just now is a Roman Catholic frame of mind with an Agnostic conscience; you get the mediaeval picturesqueness of the one with the modern conveniences of the other | H. H. Munro (1870-1916) |
| Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, let us be merciful as well as just | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) |
| As to matters of dress, I would recommend one never to be first in the fashion nor the last out of it | John Wesley (1703-1791) |
| We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back. | Lee Iacocca (1924-) |
| I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual. | Leonardo DiCaprio (1974-) |
| If you are not in fashion, you are nobody. | Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) |
| Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus. | Margaret Thatcher (1925-) |
| Fur fashion conjures a strange rapport between humans and beasts; humans pose frequently in fur while their furry cousins often pose for extinction. | Martin Dansky (1952-) |
| Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make ourselves its slave | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| It is only the modern that ever becomes old fashioned. | Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) |
| If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man. | Stendhal (1783-1842) |
| Only great minds can afford a simple style. | Stendhal (1783-1842) |
| Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that wear it are out of fashion | Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) |
| It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions | François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) |
| Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken | William Hazlitt (1778-1830) |
| What a deformed thief this fashion is | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Jeg disputerer ikke om det er moten eller ei; men er det en fornuftig mote? | Ludvig Holberg |
| Mote meg hit og mote meg dit, så er den en narr, der går annerledes enn alle andre folk i landet. | Ludvig Holberg |
| Moten skal følges om vi så blir brødløse. | Dansk Ordtak |