Fashion Industry Quotes - Page 2

• The fashion industry [is] built on, and thrives on, our collective insecurity.

  Stacy London

  Fashion, Insecurity, Thrive

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• If people decide thin is out, the fashion industry won't have thin models anymore. Have you spent time with fashion people? They are ruthless. They want money. And the one thing they know is people want clothes to cover their bodies. Unfortunately, most people aren't comfortable with their bodies.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Fashion, Clothes, People

  "Do thin models warp girls' body image?" by Nanci Hellmich, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 26, 2006.

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• Society has a hyper emphasis on thin, and that trend comes from the consumers - it does not come from the fashion industry. The fashion industry needs to make money; that's what we do. If people said, 'We want a 300 pound purple person,' the first industry to do it would be fashion.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Fashion, Purple, People

  "Kelly Cutrone: ‘Society Has a Hyper-Emphasis On Thin and That Trend Comes From the Consumers’" by Nika Mavrody, www.thefashionspot.com. July 22nd, 2013.

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• There are a bunch of different ways to look at the fashion industry. Is it shallow to work in fashion? Yes, it can be. But does fashion transform a woman who might feel like nothing and unimportant to glamorous and gorgeous? Yes, it does. Does it employ a huge sector of America? Yes, it does.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Fashion, America, Doe

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• I definitely like clothes as much as the next girl, just not to the extent of people who work in the fashion industry.

  Lauren Weisberger

  Girl, Fashion, Clothes

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• I never wanted to design clothes. I never wanted to work for the fashion industry. Shoes sort of belong to the fashion industry, which is why I'm part of the fashion industry. But that's never been my thought. My thought since I was a child was really to design those shoes for girls on stage.

  Christian Louboutin

  Girl, Fashion, Children

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• Within the fashion industry, being on shoots and working with agencies and other models, it's never been an issue being anything other than straight. It's so accepted within this industry. Out of every community that I'm a part of, or have been in, the fashion industry has been the most accepting. To the point where it was celebrated. I'd be on set talking about my girlfriend and someone would say "Oh, you're a lesbian! That's amazing." It's such a warm, welcoming community in that sense.

  Jennie Runk

  Fashion, Girlfriend, Community

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Fashion is an industry to make money. It plays into human psychology. We want to belong, we want to be loved. I'm not trying to demonize the fashion industry - I love the fashion industry - but style is about taking the control out of the industry's hand and having you decide what works for you.

  Stacy London

  Fashion, Hands, Play

  "Q&A: Stacy London tells 'The Truth About Style'". Interview with Jillian Singh, blog.sfgate.com. October 9, 2012.

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• Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity.

  Christian Audigier

  Fashion, Different, World

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• My parents are famously not part of the gestalt of the fashion industry.

  David Lauren

  Fashion, Parent, Gestalt

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• I'm getting my respect as a video director. The fashion industry respects me and knows who I am.

  ASAP Rocky

  Fashion, Who I Am, Directors

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• I think the fashion industry was slightly put off by people they didn't know. They were presented with things like 20-gatefold color brochures.

  Natalie Massenet

  Fashion, Thinking, Color

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• Today a woman must ignore her reflection in the eyes of her lover, since he might admire her, and seek it in the gaze of the God of Beauty, in whose perception she is never complete.

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Eye, Reflection

  Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

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• The surgeons are playing on the myth's double standard for the function of the body. A man's thigh is for walking, but a woman's is for walking and looking "beautiful." If women can walk but believe our limbs look wrong, we feel that our bodies cannot do what they are meant to do; we feel as genuinely deformed and disabled as the unwilling Victorian hypochondriac felt ill.

  Naomi Wolf

  Beautiful, Believe, Men

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• Sexy for me is a curvy woman - doesn't have to be skinny, which I hate anyway. I'm glad [the fashion industry] is changing slowly a little bit now to get more into the boobs and hips again.

  Heidi Klum

  Sexy, Fashion, Hate

  Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Special Interview, 1998.

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• The fashion industry now has a direct relationship with its customers. Thanks to things like Twitter, ideas can be shared and circulated.

  Stefano Gabbana

  Fashion, Thanks, Direct

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like being a consumer. I'll do collabs with brands I like, only because I would like something free to wear. But I don't want people to dress like me, which is what you're asking when you create a brand. The fashion industry's just a super-duper headache.

  Kid Cudi

  Fashion, People, Dresses

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• When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera of the airbrushed centerfold, always receding before him, keeps the man destabilized in pursuit, unable to focus on the beauty of the woman--known, marked, lined, familiar—-who hands him the paper every morning.

  Naomi Wolf

  Morning, Men, Hands

  Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

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• Every time somebody makes an Indian movie...Cher on a horse with a headdress and a miniskirt...the fashion industry cashes in.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Fashion, Horse, Cash

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Hijras earn a living by egging, sex work, badhai or blessing. There are now transgenders in social work, the fashion industry, who have PhDs. I say, "Study, study, study." You need not wear a sari, and even our ancestors said you need not wear feminine attire to be part of the third gender. When I started bar dancing, nobody else was doing it. When I joined the social sector in 1999, there were no nonprofit organizations working for the rights of hijras in India. But I had to do it, I wanted my dignity.

  Laxmi Narayan Tripathi

  Fashion, Blessing, Dancing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The art world is now a fashion industry, led by its Whitney Biennial 'nose for the new look.' But nobody, it seems, has the guts or the brains to blow the necessary whistle and holler, 'Hold on guys! What the hell is this ugly bit of business?

  Abe Ajay

  Fashion, Art, Blow

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• The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.

  Naomi Wolf

  Self Esteem, Equality, Behaviour

  Naomi Wolf (1990). “The Beauty Myth”, Vintage

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• Beverages have to be created. And they're created by looking at what trend is in, say, the fashion industry - what color's hot right now.

  Howard Schultz

  Fashion, Color, Trends

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• It would be disrespectful to take my stardom and bully my way into the fashion industry.

  ASAP Rocky

  Fashion, Bully, Would Be

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• I've always been very interested in fashion, but it is extremely important to me that the social and environment issues associated with the production of fashionable clothing are addressed. Made-By carries out really important work in transforming the fashion industry, and I am thrilled to support the organisation and help raise awareness of these ongoing issues.

  Bonnie Wright

  Fashion, Issues, Support

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