I never cared for fashion much. Amusing little seams and witty little pleats. It was the girls I liked.

-Baker, Colin
  In The Independent, 5 Nov.

Fashion, n. A despot whom the wise ridicule and obey.

-Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett
  The Cynic's Word Book. Retitled  The Devil's Dictionary (1911).

Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind.

-Cassini, Oleg Lolewski
  In My Own Fashion.

   Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

-Chanel, Gabrielle known as  Coco
Quoted in Marcel Haedrich Coco Chanel: Her Life, Her Secrets (1972), ch.1 (translated by Charles Lam Markmann).

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

-Chanel, Gabrielle known as  Coco
  In Life,19  Aug.

Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess.

-Chase, EdnaWoolman
  Always in Vogue, ch.12.

Fashion ismoretyrannical at Paristhaninanyother place in the world; it governs even more absolutely than their king, which issaying a great deal. The least revolt against it is punished by proscription.You must observe and conform to all the minutiae of it, if you will be in fashion there yourself; and if you are not in fashion, you are nobody.

-Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of
  Letter to his son, 30  Apr.

Fashionöa word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.

-Churchill, Charles
The Rosciad, l.455^6.

One had as good be out of the World, as out of the Fashion.

-Cibber, Colley
  Love's Last Shift: or, The Fool in Fashion, act 2, sc.1.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

-Cocteau,Jean
  In the NewYork World-Telegram and Sun, 21  Aug.

A romantic interest in our own sex, not necessarily carried as far as physical experiments, was the intellectual fashion.

-Connolly, Cyril Vernon
Of Oxfordduring his student days. Quotedin Peter Quennell The Marble Foot (1977).

Fashion, though Folly's child, and guide of fools, Rules e'en the wisest, and in learning rules.

-Crabbe, George
The Library (published1808), l.167^8.

One week he's in polka-dots, the next week he's in stripes 'Cos he's a dedicated follower of fashion.

-Davies, Ray(mond Douglas)
  'Dedicated Follower of Fashion'.

Mrs Boffin†is a highflyer at Fashion.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^5  Our Mutual Friend, bk.1, ch.5.

I have forgot much,Cynara! Gone with the wind, Flung roses, roses, riotously with the throng, Dancing, to put thy pale, lost lilies out of mind; But I was desolate and sick of an old passion, Yea, all the time, because the dance was long: I have been faithful to thee,Cynara! in my fashion.

-Dowson, Ernest
  Verses,'Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae'.

So in all humours sportively I range; My muse is rightly of the English strain, That cannot long one fashion entertain.

-Drayton, Michael
  Ideas Mirrour,'To the Reader ofThese Sonnets'.

A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle With words and meanings.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Four Quartets,'East Coker', pt.1.

Fine cloth is never out of fashion.

-Fuller,Thomas
  Gnomologia, no.1537.

It is in vain to mislike the current fashion.

-Fuller,Thomas
  Gnomologia, no.2968.

The present fashion is always handsome.

-Fuller,Thomas
  Gnomologia, no.4718.