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		My fashion icons are Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly and Ava Gardner. Their classic looks and clean lines should be the cornerstones of your wardrobe - white cotton shirts, black Capri pants, pencil skirts and ballerina skirts.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Marie Helvin 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		To be honest, before I joined the industry, I knew very little about the fashion world, and I hardly knew any name brands. Probably because the price tags were a little too high, and home girl needed to work. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Halima Aden 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gabourey Sidibe 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Samuel Johnson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I don't spend a lot of money on clothes, which is weird because I am a fashion model, but when it comes to the new collections coming out, I am just praying designers send it to me for free. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Irina Shayk 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm so tired of this vision of fashion of a diva with a big ego, and you think of big dark glasses to be pretentious and keep far away from the people. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Carine Roitfeld 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Verne Troyer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ta-Nehisi Coates 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Black glutinous rice works in both savoury and sweet dishes. It's a popular pudding rice in south-east Asia, where you'll often come across it cooked with water, coconut milk and a pandan leaf. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Yotam Ottolenghi 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think that it's hard enough being an adolescent and wanting so much to fit in with your peers, your schoolmates, and to erase any sign of difference, to be part of the group. And being biracial but also being black in a predominately white school marked me as different. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Natasha Trethewey 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Eddie Conway is central to my first memories. My parents used to take me to, when it was open, the Baltimore city penitentiary to see Eddie Conway - I was talking to my dad about this recently - from the time I might have been one or two years old. I mean, literally, my first memories are of black men in jail, specifically of Eddie Conway. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ta-Nehisi Coates 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Borderline embarrassing fact: I used to have a pseudo line when I was seven called Zizzy Fashion. I love clothing, and I would eventually like to design as well as act. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Zoey Deutch 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ta-Nehisi Coates 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They has got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bob Dylan 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Industry controlled by society as a whole, and operated according to a plan, presupposes well-rounded human beings, their faculties developed in balanced fashion, able to see the system of production in its entirety. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Friedrich Engels 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Advertisers don't want to be ignored, and they are drunk on our data, which is what Google and other large networks are really selling. The ads are almost a by-product; what companies really want to know is what antiperspirant a woman of 25-34 is most likely to purchase after watching 'House of Cards.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jeffrey Zeldman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		And so to those who suggest that we are somehow 'harming' young women by encouraging them to take charge of their health we say this: We are not harming young women by educating them. We are arming them with information that they will carry with them throughout their lives. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Debbie Wasserman Schultz 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Some men are born posthumously. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Friedrich Nietzsche 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My fashion icons are Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly and Ava Gardner. Their classic looks and clean lines should be the cornerstones of your wardrobe - white cotton shirts, black Capri pants, pencil skirts and ballerina skirts. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Marie Helvin