‍In his famous 1885 essay titled The Philosophy of Dress , Oscar Wilde wrote what may be some of the truest words ever put to paper:

Fashion ‍is ‍ephemeral. ‍Art ‍is ‍eternal. ‍Indeed ‍what ‍is ‍fashion ‍really? ‍Fashion ‍is ‍merely ‍a ‍form ‍of ‍ugliness ‍so ‍absolutely ‍unbearable ‍that ‍we ‍have ‍to ‍alter ‍it ‍every ‍six ‍months.

another quote from Scruton comes to mind:

Beauty is an ultimate value — something that we pursue for its own sake, and for the pursuit of which no further reason need be given. Beauty should therefore be compared to truth and goodness, one member of a trio of ultimate values which justify our rational inclinations.

The late Oxford writer and philosopher Sir Roger Scruton once said:

Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.