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Karl Lagerfeld Fashion Designer, Photographer
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"We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both."

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Nikki Reed Actress
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"I think the best way to invite people into the conversation is to just create something beautiful out of love, and people naturally gravitate towards a new way of looking at fashion."

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Nina Garcia Fashion Journalist, Author
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"Fashion is expensive. Style is not. Some of the most stylish girls I know are certainly not the wealthiest."

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Lewis Mumford Philosopher, Author
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"By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale."

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Lewis Mumford Philosopher, Author
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"Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal." Even more unfortunately, the industries that are favored by such expansion must, to maintain their output, be devoted to goods that are readily consumable either by their nature, or because they are so shoddily fabricated that they must soon be replaced. By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale."

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Jean Baudrillard Philosopher, Sociologist
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"In our culture, futility plays the role of transgression and fashion is condemned for having within it the force of the pure sign which signifies nothing."

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Meryl Streep Actress, Producer
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"I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence."

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