“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
Variant: Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six month.
“I don’t at all want to resemble some of these young designers who ask hallucinating prices for rags that are so in fashion now, that six months later, they are old-fashioned! I love vintage boutiques, I love to customize my clothes. And then, with my friends, we regularly exchange togs.”
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