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Fashion Quotes
"I have never gone out of fashion. And do you know why? Because I never sought it. When you don't seek it, it's always with you."
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"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together."
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"The miniskirt enables young ladies to run faster, and because of it, they may have to."
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"I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch."
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"The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it."
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"Well, what I'm doing is really clothing. I'm not doing sculpture."
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"There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary."
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"Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle."
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"Fashion is not frivolous. I am a businesswoman, a very serious person."
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"That's how I taught myself how to draw - tracing the ads and petting new clothes on the models."
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"It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion."
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"Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs."
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"I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked."
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"A good model can advance fashion by ten years."
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"If there was a distraction I'd get up and jump out the window. I was quite out of hand. In schools like that I don't think they expect that girls are going to behave in such an outrageous fashion."
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"Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit."
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"Perhaps the most irrational fashion act of all was the male habit for 150 years of wearing wigs. Samuel Pepys, as with so many things, was in the vanguard, noting with some apprehension the purchase of a wig in 1663 when wigs were not yet common. It was such a novelty that he feared people would laugh at him in church; he was greatly relieved, and a little proud, to find that they did not. He also worried, not unreasonably, that the hair of wigs might come from plague victims. Perhaps nothing says more about the power of fashion than that Pepys continued wearing wigs even while wondering if they might kill him."
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"So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of date."
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"Even the simplest things had a glorious pointlessness to them. When buttons came in, about 1650, people couldn't get enough of them and arrayed them in decorative profusion on the backs and collars and sleeves of coats, where they didn't actually do anything. One relic of this is the short row of pointless buttons that are still placed on the underside of jacket sleeves near the cuff. These have been purely decorative and have never had a purpose, yet 350 years later on we continue to attach them as if they are the most earnest necessity."
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"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves."
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"Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are."
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"When a popular phenomenon reaches the cover of 'Time,' it is already out of fashion."
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"I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety."
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"We can also cut by heat - heat punch. And we also can cut by cold - extreme cold. When you cut with heat, it makes a mark. With cold, no mark. It depends on the fabric."
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"Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place."
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"So I suppose this slightly mature fashion sense happened because of what I had."
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