Quotes About Fashion and Clothes

[Faust]

that's the dumbest quote i ever heard.

[Fade to Black]

same here; tabloid fashion killed style.

[Bubu]

hmm i thought that quote meant it in another way, ie the designer shouldn't look at a celebrity's fashion choices as a testament or judgment of his/her works.

[galia]

I don't see how you can understand that from that quote. It states the absolute oposite. I can see it read as a criticism of the state of fact it describes, but that's about it

[Faust]

/\ where is this from?

[Faust]

/\ thanks!

[Faust]

I've always said that women, those who pay attention to dress, dress mainly for other women, and not for men.

"A friend once remarked, men look at a woman and see a fuzzy pink outline. Of course I knew that what we wear expresses, announces, and even shouts through a foghorn messages about our sexuality, but that is because men do not notice what women wear unless they drag around a huge illuminated sign flashing the words TITS."

Linda Grant, The Thoughtful Dresser

[Faust]

“No change in musical style
will survive unless it is
accompanied by a change
in clothing style.
Rock is to dress up to.”

Frank Zappa

[Catfood]

In The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud suggests that people who habitually wear military uniforms get the same kind of anxiety dreams about appearing in public in civilian dress that the rest of us get about public nudity. But the boundary between what we call fashion and what we call uniform - apparently between the frivolous and the serious, the fragile and the durable, the contrived and the authentic - is not clear cut.

If fashion is about defining those who belong and those who don't - and it certainly is used to do that - then so is a uniform. Fashion serves to define groups that see themselves rather different from armies. But uniforms, just like fashion are designed to confer prestige. A uniform is intended to make those who wear it feel good about themselves. Military uniform is apparently endowed with the quality of authenticity that fashion puts a premium on. Yet uniforms are far from the innocent creations that their owners would want you to take them for.

- Deyan Sudjic in The Language of Things

[syed]

I would totally agree with that first paragraph. I spent the entirety of my schooling years (5-17) wearing a uniform. Once that went away and I was allowed to dress with freedom, it was hugely daunting. Heck I still sometimes get nervous away from a suit and tie. Working on changing that though

[thehouseofdis]

Just came across this in Thomas Bernhard's book PROSE from the story The Cap:

"People are immediately taken in by clothing, by caps, jackets, coats, shoes, they don't see a face, not the walk, no motion of the head, they notice nothing but the clothing, they only see the jacket and the trousers into which one has slipped, the shoes and above all, of course, the cap one is wearing."

[Atom]

"I have only one style, and will have it, and repeat myself until I'm gone, but this style is my own."

Hedi Slimane
(Anthology Of A Decade / HUGE, April 2011)

[Heirloom]

"That's cute!"

Jessica Simpson
(Newlyweds)

[Faust]

O, reason not the need: our basest beggars
Are in the poorest thing superfluous:
Allow not nature more than nature needs,
Man's life's as cheap as beast's: thou art a lady;
If only to go warm were gorgeous,
Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear'st,
Which scarcely keeps thee warm.

-- Shakespeare, King Lear.

[christianef]

Not many have style
Not many can keep style
I have seen dogs with more style than men,
although not many dogs have style.
Cats have it with abundance.

When Hemingway put his brains to the wall with a shotgun,
that was style.

bukowski