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Daily Inspiration Quote by Estella Warren

"It's hard to go with a trend. As soon as it's out, everyone picks it up. It's important to stay true to yourself. Have fun with fashion instead of letting it dictate"

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Fashion moves like gossip: by the time it reaches you, it has already been chewed up, repeated, and stripped of whatever made it interesting. Estella Warren’s line lands because it’s delivered from inside the machine. As a model, she’s professionally tasked with embodying “newness,” yet she’s pointing out the scam at the heart of trend culture: a trend only becomes legible when it’s already turning into mass behavior. “As soon as it’s out, everyone picks it up” isn’t just a complaint about copycats; it’s a quiet critique of how individuality gets sold back to us as a subscription service.

The intent reads less like anti-fashion puritanism and more like an instruction for psychological self-defense. Warren’s “hard to go with a trend” flips the usual insecurity. The problem isn’t that you can’t keep up; it’s that keeping up is structurally impossible because the finish line keeps moving. That’s a freeing reframing, especially in industries where the body is a billboard and taste is treated as a moral category.

Her subtext is pragmatic: style works best when it’s playful, not punitive. “Have fun with fashion instead of letting it dictate” draws a boundary between using clothes as expression and being used by clothes as a status algorithm. In the late-90s/2000s model ecosystem Warren came up in, fashion was already globalizing at high speed; today’s social-media churn just makes her point louder. The real flex, she suggests, isn’t early adoption. It’s agency.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Warren, Estella. (n.d.). It's hard to go with a trend. As soon as it's out, everyone picks it up. It's important to stay true to yourself. Have fun with fashion instead of letting it dictate. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-hard-to-go-with-a-trend-as-soon-as-its-out-143317/

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Warren, Estella. "It's hard to go with a trend. As soon as it's out, everyone picks it up. It's important to stay true to yourself. Have fun with fashion instead of letting it dictate." FixQuotes. Accessed February 3, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-hard-to-go-with-a-trend-as-soon-as-its-out-143317/.

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"It's hard to go with a trend. As soon as it's out, everyone picks it up. It's important to stay true to yourself. Have fun with fashion instead of letting it dictate." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-hard-to-go-with-a-trend-as-soon-as-its-out-143317/. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.

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Estella Warren (born December 23, 1978) is a Model from Canada.

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