Eric Bentley Quotes

Fashion makes fools of some, sinners of others, and slaves of all.

Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.

It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

London is one of the few cities where people still dress properly and fashion exists. Every day I see women who've thought about their outfits. They've picked out the bag, put on proper shoes. ... Do you know how rare it is in parts of America to actually see 'an outfit'? France? I don't want to be anti-French but there isn't a more unattractive group of people on the streets.

Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.

I know fashion is a material thing, but we live in a material world and I love clothes.

Fashion postulates an achrony, a time which does not exist; here the past is shameful and the present is constantly "eaten up" by the Fashion being heralded.

The fact that fashion goes out of fashion and then comes back into fashion based solely on what a few people somewhere think they can sell, well to me, that’s insanity.

You always have to keep up with the trends. The biggest thing is making your own trend and making your own stamp in the fashion industry. Whatever is going to be your style, make that your style and go from there.

Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. The spirit of fashion is not the beautiful, but the wilful; not the graceful, but the fantastic; not the superior in the abstract, but the superior in the worst of all concretes,-the vulgar.

Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.

I didn't know about the fashion world, or at least I took it for slightly superficial. I didn't realize the extent of it.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

Fashion is the abortive issue of vain ostentation and exclusive egotism ... tied to no rule, and bound to conform to every whim of the minute.

Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code.

Fashion is not public opinion, or the result of embodiment of public opinion. It may be that public opinion will condemn the shape of a bonnet, as it may venture to do always, and with the certainty of being right nine times in ten: but fashion will place it upon the head of every woman in America; and, were it literally a crown of thorns, she would smile contentedly beneath the imposition.

Your women of fashion ceases to be a woman. She is neither mother, nor wife, nor lover. She is, medically speaking, sex on the brain.

The search for the new black is one of the most elusive quests known to man. It's rumored that Christopher Columbus once searched for the new black and simply gave up. Yet every season we are convinced that some magical chromatic fabric will usurp black as the king of fashion, only to realize later that black still reigns supreme.

Because what the fashion industry loves, it woos - then swallows whole.

The models have always been the least interesting thing about fashion.

What's the point in fashion if nobody can wear it?

Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion -- it exists to be destroyed. If everybody did everything with respect, you'd go nowhere.

The fashion industry has an enormous amount to offer in what we do in industrial design because fashion is fast, fashion has its finger on the pulse. There are very few creative industries that work on that rhythm.

Fashion is entertainment. That's why these top models are so fascinating to kids.