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“I want to be the purveyor of a certain silhouette or a way of cutting, so that when I am dead and gone people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen.”
“To have an independant mind, to think for oneself, not to follow fashion, not to seek honour or decoration, not to become part of the establishment”
“Well, the ancients might not have been very heroic. Most of them were probably like Mother, crouched somewhere trying to work out how to make fake jawbone jewelry that would look like the real thing.”
“I'm always right, always wrong. Dressing bad's like loving you there is nothing i haven't worn. Nothing, I havent said before. You are nothing I havent felt before.”
“That civet-jasmine blend you're wearing tonight absolutely clashes with the third-level formal style of your dress, you know.”
“She let her mind drift, thinking about new lingerie designs, wishing she'd brought along her sketchpad. Inspiration could strike at the most inconvenient times--in the shower, in the car, on this r...”
“Clamboring over building detritus was not the lifestyle Karl Lagerfeld had in mind for this sweet little powder-blue suit. As he oversaw the hand stitching in his atelier he had probably imagined t...”
“The Duke is worried you lack the fitness to walk up Bond Street. Youre generation lacks the drive.”
“Pleasantly bustling shoppers streamed past us on Bond Street - smart-suited men and well-heeled women whose commitment to luxury goods glazed over their eyes like a bad case of malaria.”
“Everything is Fair in Love, War and Fashion.”
“We are not looking for endless variety--we are looking for fashion." February 10, 1967, Memo re HAIR ON SITTINGS”
“These were the new girls of New York- complete with rapid heartbeats from too much nicotine and coffee. They were nervous and fluttery but completely alluring- the new face of urban femininity.”
“Twentieth century women's fashions (with their cult of thinness) are the last stronghold of the metaphors associated with the romanticizing of TB in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.”
“Cyrilly expected Sylvia as an intelligent and ambitious young woman to walk around pale-mouthed and flat-shoed. She saw intellectual inclinations and a taste for fashion as mutually exclusive and...”
“I'm still a student of fashion, but I like hooking up with the people that really know how to make cool clothes.”
“Fashion shows are really my way of communication.”
“We're not doing outrageous fashion; I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears.”
“When I was really young, I can remember being into fashion, but I was really into horses and sports.”
“One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.”
“We're fit, we're healthy, we eat right, we work out. 'Plus size model' does not mean that we're not healthy. Plus size is not glamourising obesity: it's about empowering. The message behind the fas...”
