“A silk dress in four sections, and shoes with high heels that would have broken the heart of John Calvin.” HeartFourFashionBrokenDressesShoesHeelsSectionsSilkHigh Heels Book:Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich Source: Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich
“By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No one generation could link with the other. Men would become little better than the flies of a summer.” MenWayLittlesStatesWholeWould BeChangeGenerationsFashionBrokenRevolutionSummerChainsFancyLinksFloatingFacilityContinuityCommonwealth Book:Burke, Select Works Source: Burke, Select Works
“The Girl of the Period, sauntering before one down Broadway, is one panorama of awful surprises from top to toe. Her clothes characterize her. She never characterizes her clothes. She is upholstered, not ornamented. She is bundled, not draped. She is puckered, not folded. She struts, she does not sweep. She has not one of the attributes of nature nor of proper art. She neither soothes the eye like a flower, nor pleases it like a picture. She wearies it like a kaleidoscope. She is a meaningless dazzle of broken effects.” DoeArtEyeGirlEffectsFashionYouthFlowerBrokenPeriodsPleaseClothesSurpriseAwfulAttributesMeaninglessToesBroadwaySaunteringDazzleKaleidoscopePanorama Author:Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
“I'm all for reforming our higher education system, in the 21st century, to have the skills you need for a middle-class job, you need higher education of some form or fashion. It may not be a four-year degree. The problem is he just wants to pour that additional money into the broken, existing system.” WantNeedsYearsMayProblemJobsFormEducationClassFourMiddleCenturyFashionBrokenHigherSkillsDegreesMiddle ClassFour Years21st CenturyEducation SystemHigher Education Author:Marco Rubio
“I was a teacher and an administrator at Parson's School of Design, and as an administrator, I was associate dean. And in that role, I went around fixing things that were broken. And the Parson's fashion program was broken.So fashion chose me. It needed to be developed and evolve. I don't know if it comes naturally to anyone.” IfsKnowsSchoolRolesTeacherFashionDesignBrokenNeededProgramEvolveAssociatesFixingDeanAdministratorsFixing Things Author:Tim Gunn
“Fashion is meant to be wild and expressive. I love colour but I also love basics - grungy minimalism mixed with this kind of broken-down cheerleader, is my thing.” KindFashionBrokenColourMeant To BeMinimalismBasicsExpressiveCheerleaderBroken Down Author:Charli XCX