Our Ruffian boys are working madly on Fall, which shows at the Studio at Lincoln Center on February 11th, but our devoted columnists don't want to leave you dry.








"With our fashion show looming around the corner next Friday, we thought it would be a good time to celebrate some of our favorite fashion Witticisms from a variety of 20th and 21st century icons.



Looking forward to seeing you all on the runway!





Your devoted Ruffians,



Brian and Claude





“I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.”

-Marlene Dietrich





“Only great minds can afford a simple style.”



-Stendahl





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



-Voltaire





“Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.”



-Schiaparelli





“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.”



-Plato





“Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.”



-Francis Bacon, Sr.





"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new."



-Henry David Thoreau





"Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make ourselves its slave."



-Napoleon Bonaparte





"I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon."



- Wallis Simpson





"I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion."



-Geoffrey Beene





"If you look at any great fashion photograph out of context, it will tell you just as much about what's going on in the world as a headline in The New York Times."



-Anna Wintour





"Never in the history of fashion has so little material been raised so high to reveal so much that needs to be covered so badly."



-Cecil Beaton





"We have the Terminator as governor, and we had an actor as president, so why shouldn't we have a fashion designer as a senator?"



-Tom Ford





"Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus. "



-Magaret Thatcher





“I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity."



-Diana Vreeland





"Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world."



-Marilyn Monroe







"It takes a REALLY big man to fill my shoes"”



-Madonna





“Its OK to be impulsive when you have good taste.”



-Brian Wolk and Claude Morais of Ruffian