Bill Cunningham Quotes
The best fashion show is definitely on the street. Always has been, and always will be.
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I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.
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The biggest thing politically within fashion is that the clothing should be displayed on different body shapes.
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In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.
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I like to think of my customer and make sure that season after season she is getting what she wants. Ultimately, I suppose I have an image of myself. That is the person I am designing for - a woman who loves and appreciates fashion and luxury, and somebody who wants to feel empowered with the best version of themselves.
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High fashion has become representative of stability in unstable places; that allows you to have a voice in the world stage.
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Fashion is not about clothes, it is about a look.
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One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.
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Everything has changed, and nothing has changed more than the world of fashion.
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I have never felt anchored when it comes to fashion. I've always had to depend on a stylist helping me to figure it out.
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I love the fashion world. I love clothes. I love style.
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Unlike straight men, who have the luxury of being slobs because women usually expect them to be, gay men - whether preppies, fashion victims, or jocks - are thought to be more obsessed with how they look because they dress for themselves and, consequently, for each other.
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Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.
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Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
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I don't think a living being should suffer for the sake of fashion, period. End of story. You don't have to kill an animal just because you want to be hot and fly. And I really stand by that.
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I didn't like the '80s at all; it was a vulgar moment of fashion.
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The fashion industry has done itself in by neglecting the 60- to 80-year-old market. They have the time and the economic resources. They want to go shopping.
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I am not a celebrity. I work with celebrities, and it is very difficult. When a celebrity wears a dress, it's good for business, so brands fight for the red carpet. Me? I don't like it, because fashion becomes a job about dressing celebrities. And it's a bit boring.
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Fashion is always seen as somewhat frivolous and self-indulgent. And I think people on the inside maybe don't see or understand how exciting and diverse a business it is.
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If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
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I came from a different world from other designers because I already had such a strong fan base that was interested in fashion. You have to give the little divas something.
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The defection of Hussein Kamel was a turning point in the U.N.-imposed disarmament of Iraq in the 1990s.
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You reach a certain point in your 30s when you say things in a much safer way.
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I feel like in the reading I did when I was growing up, and also in the way that people talk and tell stories here in the South, they use a lot of figurative language. The stories that I heard when I was growing up, and the stories that I read, taught me to use the kind of language that I do. It's hard for me to work against that when I am writing.
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The best fashion show is definitely on the street. Always has been, and always will be.
