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Fashion is not art. Never.

— Jean Paul Gaultier

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.

— Imran Amed

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

— Francis Bacon

Fashion is not about clothes, it is about a look.

— Carine Roitfeld

Fashion is a potency in art, making it hard to judge between the temporary and the lasting.

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.

— Zubin Mehta

Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.

— David Bailey

My involvement in fashion is not at the highest artistic level.

— Dasha Zhukova

✗Opposing Perspectives

I absolutely consider fashion a form of art. Of course, there is some fashion that is not art at all - it's utilitarian, made for the purpose of covering up. And there are a lot of people out there who put a lot of effort into looking awful. But there are also people putting the same amount of energy into making bad art.

— Iris Apfel

Fashion is not separate from art. It is inextricably woven into how we open ourselves to the world and articulates the exchanges of power both real and imagined.

— Richard Phillips

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.

— Kary Mullis