fashion conformity Quotes

What's sometimes really overwhelming in Sweden is the uniformity. People kind of disappear by all looking the same and wearing the same clothes. There are a lot of great individuals, but it can become a very blank and bleak picture.

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

Yeah, I grew a goatee, and the next year, everybody had them.

I don't like it when a woman looks like a fashion victim. Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don't have great legs, there are plenty of alternatives.

Fashion is not style. Nay, we can say more: Fashion is instead of style. Style is an idiom springing spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained. If you have no personality, you may be able to save your face and, possibly, your entire anatomy by following the current fashion, but all we shall know about you, when we see you coming down the street, is that you had enough money to buy a glossy magazine and were sufficiently cunning to work out the cut of the garments shown therein.

When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb to trend, they should interpret trend.

[ Stylists] are putting you in a style that most people are in because it's the trend. So you might have on the same outfit as everyone else.

Beware originality. In women fashion originality can lead to carnival.

Conformism is a potent statement, and as much as we do talk about individuality in fashion, there's a sense that people are fearful of not conforming and not being part of action.

When I first began working in Japan, I had to confront the Japanese people's excessive worship for foreign goods and the fixed idea of what clothes ought to be. I wanted to change the rigid formula of clothing that the Japanese followed.

If you put on an item of clothing that hurts just because you have an idea it looks better or conforms to what other people are wearing, it's dumb.

I think it's boring when everybody wears the same brands or the same styles, and it's like, 'Oh, this is the new trend.'

I believe in a uniform for work, but why, because we're men, do we have to be ghettoised into grey suits?

It’s easier to follow fashion than it is to have personal style.

There would not be so much harm in the giddy following the fashions, if somehow the wise could always set them.

He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

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.

The thing about fashion - it's like ducks going quack, quack quack. It's being dictated from above, and it just makes me want to rebel against it.

A lady wants to be dressed exactly like everybody else but she gets pretty up- set if she sees anybody else dressed exactly like her.

It doesn't behoove elderly persons to follow fashion in their thinking nor in the way they dress.

I’ve found that people tend to trust other people who dress like them.

Los Angelenos dress like they've been focus-grouped.

It is true I am rather taken up with dress; but as to feathers, every one wears them, and it would seem extraordinary if I did not.

Individuality in dressing is not important to men. If they all look alike it means they haven't made a mistake.

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.