19th century Quote by Anonymous

There are three fashion periods: the past, the present and Mae West.

— Edith Head

I had these fashion history books that I really enjoyed looking at. I liked costumes and used to wear them to school until I…

— Robert Eggers

I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see it as…

— Tim Gunn

I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.

— Olivier Theyskens

To me, British fashion has a story. It has history, and I feel it's very much about our culture.

— Rita Ora

Every style seems completely appropriate to its epoch. We cannot imagine Madame de Pompadour, or the Empress Josephine, or the early Victorian lady in…

— James Laver

I remember, when I went away to college at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, my aunt sent me a book with the rules of…

— Kourtney Kardashian

Tailor's work--the finishing of men's outside garments--was the "trade" learned most frequently by women in [the 1820s and 1830s],and one or more of my…

— Lucy Larcom

I don't know when the word fashion came into being, but it was an evil day. For thousands of years people got along with…

— Elizabeth Hawes

My father was a graduate student at Oxford in the early 1960s, where the conventions and etiquette of clothing were crucial to the pervasive…

— Russell Smith

I've not worn a dress since about 1985. It always amazes me how there is still a fascination for it in England. The rest…

— Martin Gore

Where would fashion be without literature?

— Diana Vreeland