Amusing Quote by James Laver

Ten years before its time, a fashion is indecent; ten years after, it is hideous; but a century after, it is romantic.

— James Laver

“We fashion our destinies with our own hands, by deed or by default, one decade, one year, one hour at a time.”

— Marie Jakober

Fashion postulates an achrony, a time which does not exist; here the past is shameful and the present is constantly "eaten up" by the…

— Roland Barthes

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

— Dorothy Parker

Why it is that a garment which is honestly attractive in, say, 1910 should be honestly ridiculous a few years later and honestly charming…

— Margery Allingham

Fashion is what time looks like.

— Isabel Toledo

For me, nothing is old. I don't know why. If a dress is beautiful, and it's very personal, I think it can live forever.

— Alessandro Michele

I know parts of all the decades come in and out of fashion, but you never get to wear an entire outfit exactly how…

— Nikki Sanderson

Fashion will last forever. It will exist always. It will exist in its own way in each era.

— Azzedine Alaia

The word 'fashion' I don't like because fashion is something that's over in six months. I'd like to find a word that's more timeless.

— Dries van Noten

The future's come and gone; it's a thing of the past. That once impossibly exotic expression 'the year 2000,' for so long evocative of…

— Peter Baynham

My fancy dress costume of choice is... something 1920s or 30s, when there was still so much elegance and attention to detail. An excuse…

— Ellie Goulding