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“The Duke is worried you lack the fitness to walk up Bond Street. You’re generation lacks the drive.”
“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 a...”
“What kind of look are you going for?” he asked instead. “Clothed.”
“He was a passionate adherent of the new ideas and of Speransky, and the busiest purveyor of news in Petersburg, one of those men who choose their opinions like their clothes—according to the fashio...”
“Our best analyst thinks it's not a tactical design. Something for mall ninjas....Young men who dress to feel they'll be mistaken for having special capability. A species of cosplay, really. Endemic...”
“May your Valentine’s Day be filled with adoration, pampering, and a pair of gorgeous, tiny-heeled Jimmy Choo sandals that are completely useless in this weather. Just remember: You are totally wort...”
“My attitude is if fashion says it's forbidden, I'm going to do it.”
“He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in style.”
“A wise friend once told me, 'Don't wear what fashion designers tell you to wear. Wear what _they_ wear.' His point being that most designers, no matter what they throw onto the runway, favor simple...”
“As the year goes on, certain deputies—and others, high in public life—will appear unshaven, without coat or cravat; or they will jettison these marks of the polite man, when the temperature rises. ...”
“So I got dressed up kind of Girl With The Dragon Tattoo-y goth. As I head out, I say bye to Mum and Dad, and Mum says, ‘You look cool’, just as Dad says, ‘You look terrifying.”
“I had no name for that particular hue of orange, other than unfortunate.”
“My motto for fashion: If you can’t afford to make an elegant statement, make a ridiculous one.”
“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.”
“Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion on the other hand produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.”
“Be not the first by whom the new are tried Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.”
“Fashion which elevates the bad to the level of the good subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.”
“Fashions after all are only induced epidemics.”
“When a man is once in fashion all he does is right.”
“Fashion condemns us to many follies the greatest is to make oneself its slave.”
