“When women do succeed, the press, even the industry press, spend far too much time talking about how we dress, what shoes we're wearing, who we're meant to be seeing. That's pretty sad for women, especially when it's written by women who really should know better.” KnowsShouldSuccessTalkingToo MuchWrittenSeeingIndustrySucceedDressesPressesShoesMeant To Be Author:Zaha Hadid
“Women covering their heads is traditional, but now we're seeing more and more women covering themselves from head to toe. This is said to be for religious reasons but it's actually the conflation of religion and politics - every political movement has its slogans, flags and dress.” SaidReasonPoliticalReligiousSeeingMovementDressesTraditionalFlagsToesSlogansCoveringReligion And PoliticsPolitical Movements Author:Ayaan Hirsi Ali
“My father was very strict with me, and I kept seeing a disparity between their freedom and my lack of it, or how I had all the responsibilities and they had none. And the Catholic Church, all of the rules, and why did I have to wear a dress when they could wear pants? I would say to my dad: 'Will Jesus love me less if I wear pants? Am I going to hell?'” IfsFatherJesusChurchResponsibilityHellSeeingDadCatholicDressesMy DadPantsStrictCatholic ChurchJesus LoveDisparityJesus Loves Me Author:Madonna Ciccone
“I love seeing what people wear out to dinner in different cities. I know how differently I dress in New York than I do in Los Angeles.” PeopleKnowsDifferentCitiesKnow HowSeeingNew YorkDressesDinnerLos Angeles Author:Melissa Rivers
“I think that The Great Gatsby has had some influence on contemporary dressing. I'm seeing more boyish haircuts and drop-waist sheath dresses.” ThinkingSeeingInfluenceDressesContemporaryDressingsHaircutsBoyish Author:Ruth E. Carter
“The thing is, if you're a designer, then you want to constantly push yourself and your designs. When we make a new collection, we're changing shapes, we're changing patterns. We get a dress on a model, and it's our first time seeing what the dress really looks like on a woman's body.” IfsWantFirstsLooksBodySeeingDesignShapesModelsFirst TimeDressesPatternsDesignerCollectionsPush YourselfWomen's Bodies Author:Christian Siriano
“Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away.” ShowsAttentionSeeingConceptsDressesInstancePrintSeeing Yourself Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“Tessa: "A little girl robbed you?" Will: "Actually, she wasn't a little girl at all, as it turns out, but a midget in a dress with a penchant for violence, who goes by the name Six-Fingered Nigel." Jem:"Easy mistake to make." (later) Will: "I want to be back before dark. I have an assignation in Soho this evening with a certain attractive someone" Tessa: “Goodness, If you keep seeing Six-Fingered Nigel like this, he'll expect you to declare your intentions.” IfsWantLittlesCertainTurnsGirlNamesEasyDarkMistakeViolenceSeeingGoodnessSixDressesIntentionEveningAttractiveJemMidgetSoho Author:Cassandra Clare
“Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to college; a newspaper photograph of war; a breast self-exam; the tooth fairy; Calvinist parents who beat up their children; a gesture of love; seeing oneself naked over age 50 in a set of bright hotel bathroom mirrors.” ThinkingWayChildrenWarSelfAgeParentMemoriesSeeingObjectsCollegeBeatsOrdinaryDaughterMirrorsDressesPhotographOneselfNewspapersTeethNakedFairyBreastsHotelMy DaughterGesturesBathroomExamTooth FairyBack To College Author:Sharon Olds
“Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter 'repented', changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again.” WayMindWellsChildrenSometimesShowsHappensWould BeAgeChoicesLinesSeeingTreeSeaDogChangedOriginalsDressesPaintPainterBoatConceptionReplacedCanvasTransparent Book:Conversations with Lillian Hellman Source: Conversations with Lillian Hellman