Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant (Latin proverb).
Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken.
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time (Jean Cocteau).
Fashion is that by which the fantastic becomes for the moment the universal (Oscar Wilde).
One had as good be out of the world as out of fashion.
Fashion is made to become unfashionable (Coco Chanel).