Sebastian Horsley Quotes

In the '70s, if anything, it was a more interesting time in fashion. It was a time when things were changing, especially in London.

Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.

My mama never wore a pair of pants when I was growing up, and now that's all she wears. It was so funny for me when I first started seeing Mama wear pants. It was like it wasn't Mama. Now I've bought her many a pantsuit because she just lives in them.

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don't have a change, you're bored. It's the same with fashion, you know. And that, I suppose, is what style is about.

I never travel without my Stetson, but the more I wear it the more I realise that no one wears hats any more. When I was a kid everybody wore hats, especially in Texas, but I get off the plane in Dallas now and I'm the only guy with a hat. It's amazing.

You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.

There are still people who look askance at a minister dressed in indigenous skirts …. The old elite wonders where the president’s tie is. But things are changing.

What were once vices are the fashion of the day.

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

When fashion turns over it brings in little tiny creaks and cracks. This is the fascination and that is where you have to watch every step.

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.

As the eye becomes blinded by fashion to positive deformity, so, through social conventionalism, the conscience becomes blinded to positive immorality.

I think dressing nowadays went from trying to fit in to wearing something to try to stick out.

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

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.

We smile at the women who are eagerly following the fashions in dress whilst we are as eagerly following the fashions in thought.

People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse.

If you look into the history of fashion, you'll discover that Gernreich was the leading name for years and the leading fashion designer both here in the United States and internationally.

It was no longer esteemed infamous for a Roman to survive his honor and independence.

What's really interesting is when you get a brand-new wave that has no connection to anything else. It always reflects society. The flappers would cut the dresses and make them looser, they smoked, their hair was short. It was a rebellion against the corset and the Edwardian era.

The latest fashion… is absolutely necessary for a painting. It’s what matters most.

People used to throw rocks at me for my clothes, now they wanna know where I buy them.

How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.

It's a new era in fashion - there are no rules.