“If I were a buyer today in one of the American department stores, I would go with extremes-the most beautiful, the more expensive, the more eccentric. I would take risks. The worst thing would be to buy only the little black dress. You know why? Because everyone has it already. I would go with a purple dress, something different” IfsKnowsLittlesDifferentWould BeTodayBeautifulBlackRiskWorstDressesExtremesStoresExpensiveDepartmentWorst ThingsPurpleEccentricBuyersDepartment Stores Author:Alber Elbaz
“It is possible to see slavery and serfdom merely as extreme early forms of autocratic management, in which employees had no voice whatsoever in the work process and were viewed not as human beings but as alienated forms of individual wealth. Slavery, in this sense, did not die; it continues in modern dress in contemporary organizations wherever managers exercise autocratic power, unequal status, or arbitrary privileges, no matter how scientific the terminology or postmodern the image” HumansMatterFormDiesIndividualProcessVoiceWealthHuman BeingsModernExerciseCapitalismOrganizationManagementDressesSlaveryPrivilegeExtremesContemporaryManagersEmployeeArbitraryPostmodernTerminology Author:Kenneth Cloke
“Being in front of a camera, in a nice dress, getting all dressed up is extreme. There's a lot of other extreme situations, you know, just getting out of bed sometimes is extreme - but I do it. Just got to do it, just got to get up. Put your sweatpants on, brush off the dog hair and just get out of the house!” KnowsSometimesHouseSituationNiceDogFrontsHairBedCamerasDressesExtremesGet UpBrushesDressed UpSweatpants Author:Sandra Bullock
“A girl’s got to use what she’s given and I’m not going to make a guy drool the way a Britney video does. So I take it to extremes. I don’t say I dress sexily on stage - what I do is so extreme. It’s meant to make guys think: ‘I don’t know if this is sexy or just weird.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayDoeUseGuyGirlGivenStageDressesExtremesSexyVideo Author:Lady Gaga
“The cultural differences between Germany and Nigeria were extreme. The way they dress, the way they carry themselves, their religion. For two years I was overwhelmed.” WayYearsTwoDifferencesDressesExtremesGermanyTwo YearsOverwhelmedNigeriaCultural Differences Author:Nneka
“I have always been drawn to designing fashions that are rebellious, like black leather jackets on suburban kinds, a corset dress, punk, blue jeans. I love that. Fashion changes all the time, and what is considered extreme or elegant or luxurious (or not luxurious) is changing all the time.” KindBlackFashionDesignDressesBlueExtremesPunkJeansElegantRebelliousJacketsLeatherLuxuriousCorsetsLeather JacketsBlue Jeans Author:Jean Paul Gaultier
“Unfortunately, the greatest photographers don't pay extreme attention to the clothes. If they decide to put a dress in a bathtub or in front of a cow in the countryside with dirt everywhere, well, the dresses come back... ready to be put in the garbage.” IfsWellsPayAttentionFrontsReadyClothesDressesPhotographerExtremesCowsDirtGarbageCountrysideBathtubs Author:Valentino Garavani