Quotes

it seems that people actually want to be shocked; they are searching for explosive fashion, for things that leave them openmouthed. (art quote from

My intention was to work on nothingness, on banality, on something generic.

The whole idea of a black tie affair is that there should be a unifying mode of dress to which we yield as gentlemen.

Illustrated guide; the French author says that America’s characteristic is Juvenile. This is how we shold grow up.

Valentino’s partner comments taht the new investor/owners are more “concerned with the bottom line”. His strategy was always to make Valentino ‘famous and happy”.

Ms. Theallet, who is 46, is an unusual recent entrant to Big Fashion—a designer who is getting her big chance 20 years later than

in jeans, luggage, purses, etc.

I don’t find clothes sexy at all. I find people sexy, and I find personalities fascinating and dex and appealing and charming. So a

ON STYLE JUNE 18, 2009 Making Fashion Fit the Form, for a Change Women of a Certain Shape Take Up the Cause for Clothes

But for Christian Lacroix, profit has never been the point. “Businessmen and market people are so far from artists and creative people,” Lacroix says