Quotes About Fashion and Clothes

[apathy!]

It would seem incorrect to describe fashion as very important considering the amount of people even in "first world" countries who cannot be sure that they will be eating dinner tonight.

This could easily become a semantic debate though and I'm never going to get away with this argument on a fashion forum

[Faust]

Only 25% of children in the US live below the poverty line, and the poverty line is a fucking joke in itself. I know. It's just not mutually exclusive. And yes, it's semantics, you get the meaning.

[1994]

Can I get a definition for how we're using the word "fashion?"

Are we talking about dress, how people adorn themselves. Or are we talking about Fashion the upheld institution.

[Faust]

Mmm, pretty sure miss punk there wasn't talking about the latter.

[1994]

The problem with Westwood is that she walks and talks as if she operates outside of the fashion system. I'm not sure if by her definition she isn't trying to use them interchangeably. Which is what most people do.

[Faust]

Yes, I thought about that, but, a) she did start outside of the fashion system, and b) just because you are induced to play the game does not mean you like it or want to advocate it.

[1994]

She may have started with a King's Road boutique but happily saddled up with McLaren to evolve the brand and its credentials.

Even if Westwood hadn't entered fashion, if your aesthetic becomes a recognized style are you inherently a part of the system by de facto?

Regardless she most definitely is smack dab in the middle, upholding systems like neocolonialism which she's supposedly against.

[Faust]

"Through the lens of unforewarned Norman, Sabbath saw what he looked like, had come to look like, didn't care that he looked like, deliberately looked like - and it pleased him. He'd never lost the simple pleasure, which went way back, of making people uncomfortable, comfortable people especially."

Philip Roth, Sabbath's Theater

[interest1]

Right now I’m trying to figure out how to make tulle look like concrete.

Rick Owens

[i-d-g]

“A good design should be like a well-made sentence, it should only express one idea at a time.”

-Charles James

[Faust]

"I think that I'm the first one who started presenting pre-collection, which was the biggest mistake of my life."

- Albert Elbaz

[Lois Grüveltner]

"Everything that seems imperishable tends to extinguishment."

- Marcel Proust

[1994]

"We may like to think that the military and civilian are distinct or auspicious moments in our country's history. But in men's fashion the military is there all the time, even when you can't see it." - Nick Sullivan

[trentk]

"Isn't everything that is capable of becoming shopworn already twisted or trite to begin with?" - Schlegel

[Faust]

"I don’t think that most of the designers have a very quick sense of humor. They take themselves very seriously because they want to be taken as artists. I think we are artisans. It’s an applied art. There’s nothing bad about that. If you want to do art, then show it in a gallery." Karl Lagerfeld