Quotes About Fashion and Clothes

[Faust]

/\ for teenagers

[christianef]

aha is there a quote about style/fashion that isn't.

'I think perfection is ugly' blah blah aint exactly mind blowing.

[Vanna]

Great thread. Some really insightful quotes. This one, not so much, but its fun.

"Do whatever you want, wear lingerie to restaurant. Police ain't got no gun, you don't have to run."

- Prince

[Faust]

aha is there a quote about style/fashion that isn't.

'I think perfection is ugly' blah blah aint exactly mind blowing.

I can count several just on this page. Except the one Heirloom posted, but that just shows his level of maturity.

[BlackLeatherKelly]

Art imitates life.

[syed]

"...because clothing is intimately associated with the physical body, at the deepest level all clothing is erotic" - Valerie Steele

[Heirloom]

I can count several just on this page. Except the one Heirloom posted, but that just shows his level of maturity.

i thought it was funny :)

[interest1]

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"I love to learn from things I can't appreciate."
-Dries Van Noten ﹅ Mono Kultur interview

[SHYE_POSER]

"A man should look as if he had bought his clothes with intelligence, put them on with care, and then forget all about them"

Hardy Amies

[Aleks]

"BOUDICCA: How low can we go…? Hide and seek? What game do we play? And whom do we play it with? To begin you look in a mirror and identify who you are or who you would like to be. To become, you play and paint as the soundtrack builds around you and hence begins a filmic dialogue of what you dream of, what you feel and how that is all played out.

Outfits beget identities and the story begins. Then you study, looking for knowledge and how to build what you know. A naïve process in many ways as the industry is far, far, away and then by the time you get to it all, it has changed anyway. Along the way you make errors and maybe find small moments of success. Success only recognized by yourself many years later, whilst looking back at ideas that were always frustratingly comprised, that you, with time see now the moment of possible truth and wonder; you stare at its beauty or its innocent attempt.

Throughout all of this history your actions are brute, instinctive, animal. You do not intend anything more then your spirit can drive you to do. Intention is conceit, marketing and force.. What occurs is natural and beyond your control. So how low can you go? It is no game and there are no players. "

[Acéphale]

"Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress."

- Wallace Stevens

[MJRH]

Odilon Redon

Black is the most essential of all colors. Above all, if I may say so, it draws its excitement and vitality from deep and secret sources of health… One must admire black. Nothing can debauch it. It does not please the eyes and awakens no sensuality. It is an agent of the spirit far more than the fine color of the palette or the prism. Thus a good lithograph is more likely to be appreciated in a serious country, where inclement nature compels man to remain confined to his home, cultivating his own thoughts, that is the say in the countries of the north rather than those of the south, where the sun draws us outside ourselves and delights us. Lithography enjoys little esteem in France, except when it has been cheapened by the addition of color, which produces a different result, destroying its specific qualities so that it comes to resemble a cheap colored print.

[Faust]

/\ Nice. It definitely awakens my sensuality though...

[Faust]

Oh, how I feel this:

"The nation was fighting ugly ground wars in two countries, the planet was heating up like a toaster oven, and here at the 9:30, all around him, were hundreds of kids... with their sweet yearnings, their innocent entitlement - to what? To emotion. To unadulterated worship of a super-special band. To being left to themselves to ritually repudiate, for an hour or two on a Saturday night, the cynicism and anger of their elders. They seemed.. to bear malice towards nobody. Katz could see it in their clothing, which bespoke none of the rage and disaffection of the crowds he'd been a part of as a youngster. They gathered not in anger but in celebration of their having found, as a generation, a gentler and more respectful way of being. A way, not incidentally, more in harmony with consuming."

Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

[michael_kard]

/\ That's wonderful. Thanks for sharing.