Robert Benton Quotes

Style is very personal. It has nothing to do with fashion. Fashion is over quickly. Style is forever.

Fashion comes and goes but style lasts forever

Style is anti-fashion; it's not about following trends.

I love fashion because it can change to suit your mood. I'm very drawn to classic silhouettes, menswear-inspired pieces, and anything that feels a little French. I'm also inspired by Brit girl style.

The best thing to do is just know that there's a big difference between style and fashion, and that one doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the other.

Fashion changes, but style endures.

Elegance is timeless. It withstands trend; It withstands the commercialization of what fashion and style have become.

Fashion is OK for five days, one minute, six months, but style is for the rest of the life.

Fashion is something that comes and goes. What remains is your style and that's nothing but an extension of your personality that you are showcasing via your clothes.

I created my bags from the notion of developing a well-edited line of fashionable, but not "trendy" handbags. By designing styles that will be as relevant tomorrow as they are today, my brand has established itself as a modern classic.

Fashion it's not just about learning how to draw pretty pictures, and how to sew, it's everything that makes up your life.

Fashion passes, but style remains.

Fashion is temporary; fashion is a race. What it's doing is giving you something that you say, "This is the outer wrapping of me." Style is something else. It's not quantifiable. Fashion is about selling. Fashion is about what's in. Style is independent of that; style is individual.

Fashion will last forever. It will exist always. It will exist in its own way in each era. I live in the moment. It's interesting to know the old methods. But you have to live in the present moment.

WHETHER YOU'VE GOT $20 TO SPEND IN TOPSHOP OR $2.000 TO SPEND AT GUCCI, LOOKING GOOD ISN'T ABOUT MONEY. IT’S ABOUT STYLE, AND STYLE NEVER GOES OUT OF FASHION

If you get old fashioned enough, you'll always be in style.

I've never been in style, so I can't go out of style.

As soon as you're interested in what is good taste, then you're in bad taste land already. What's comfortable and what represents your life, what's unique and individual about you, that's style.

For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion. Fashions come and go, but style is forever.

Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.

A woman makes an outfit her own with accessories.

I don't believe in fashion dictatorship, and I find that anybody who follows the dictates of fashion is a bit lost. I'm excited by style, not so much by fashion.

I like fashion, whether or not it's overpriced, because it creates a sense of the sublime with relatively few means.

I always loved beauty and accessories, and it's always something I was passionate about.

As to matters of dress, I would recommend one never to be first in the fashion nor the last out of it.