Change in fashion is the tax which the industry of the poor levies on the vanity of the rich
Chamfort
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
Baltasar Gracian
Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.
Eric Bentley
Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.
Charles Churchill
Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
John Locke
The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
William Shakespeare
A good model can advance fashion by ten years.
Yves Saint Laurent
Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
Montaigne
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Thomas Jefferson
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
George Santayana
Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
Victor Hugo
Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make ourselves its slave.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken.
William Hazlitt