"Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave."
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"Nowadays New-York is not the exciting place it used to be. It still has great energy; I still put my finger in the socket. But it doesn't feel alive, cracking with that synergy between the art world and music world and fashion world that was happening in the 80s. A lot of people died."
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"You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins."
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"The computer industry is the only industry that is more fashion-driven than women's fashion."
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"Fashion keeps me designing: the love of change, the idea that the next one will be the right one, the nonstop dialogue"
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"Fashion does not have to prove that it is serious. It is the proof that intelligent frivolity can be something creative and positive"
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"Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair."
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"Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue."
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"Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion."
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"Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out."
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"Had the cub thought in man-fashion, he might have epitomized life as a voracious appetite, and the world as a place wherein ranged a multitude of appetites, pursuing and being pursued, hunting and being hunted, eating and being eaten, all in blindness and confusion, with violence and disorder, a chaos of gluttony and slaughter, ruled over by chance, merciless, planless, endless."
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"The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last."
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"Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit."
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"The present condition of fame is merely fashion."
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"Style is like a muscle: you have to exercise it regularly or you'll lose it."
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"A concert is not a live rendition of our album. It's a theatrical event. I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show."
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"For me, beauty and fashion are always connected. One doesn't exist without the other. Make up is a key element of the Gucci runway show - it helps communicate the essence of the Gucci woman. Eyes, skin, lips - they're like accessories, all working together to create an unmistakable look."
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"Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief, And that is Sculpture. This vast ball, the Earth, Was moulded out of clay, and baked in fire; Men, women, and all animals that breathe Are statues, and not paintings."
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"I really would not call myself a fashion icon. I would call myself somebody who gets dressed by professionals...I would call me more of a monkey."
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"Today, every principle of identity is affected by fashion, precisely because of its potential to revert all forms to non-origin and recurrence. Fashion is always retro, but always on the basis of the abolition of the passé (the past): the spectral death and resurrection of forms. Its proper actuality (its 'up-to-dateness', its 'relevance') is not a reference to the present, but an immediate and total recycling."
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