“Clothes maketh the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
Mark Twain

"My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably." 
George Bernard Shaw 

"We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes." 
Henry David Thoreau 

"It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes." 
Henry David Thoreau 

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
Oscar Wilde

“Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.”
Coco Chanel

“Fashion changes, but style endures.”
Coco Chanel

“I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.”
Stephanie Perkins

“Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.”
Yves Saint-Laurent

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
Coco Chanel

You don't learn style from watching people on a runway. Fashion happens every morning when you wake up.
Shalom Harlow

Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct.
Edith Head