We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.

Society is founded upon cloth.

When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.

If the cut of the costume indicates intellect and talent, then the color indicates temper and heart.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions.

Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.