
“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
Variant: Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six month.
Source: The Winner Stands Alone
“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
Variant: Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six month.
Source: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 51, section 5 (p. 667)
“I wouldn't dream of following a fashion… how could one be a different person every three months?”
Source: The Last Years of a Rebel (1967), p. 24
“1579. Fools may invent Fashions, that wise Men will wear.”
Similarly in French: Les fous inventent les modes et les sages les suivent.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Fashion fades, only style remains the same.”
As quoted in Architectural Digest (September 1994), p. 30
New York Times (2 December 2005) "The Measure of Success".
"The next … months" in Iraq
“Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.”
Lord Goring, Act III
An Ideal Husband (1895)
Source: Nancy MacDonell Smith The Classic Ten: The True Story of the Little Black Dress and Nine Other Fashion Favorites http://books.google.co.in/books?id=hCap5dsIJiAC&pg=PT17, Penguin, 28 October 2003, p. 17
“I nearly always wear almost the very same things. But I alter the combinations slightly.”
Source: THE VALUE OF HUMAN DIGNITY: Brunello Cucinelli’s Vision for a Better World https://gearpatrol.com/2018/12/20/brunello-cucinelli-interview/ John Zientek, Gear Patrol, December 20, 2018