“Fashion has become a joke. The designers have forgotten that there are women inside the dresses. Most women dress for men and want to be admired. But they must also be able to move, to get into a car without bursting their seams! Clothes must have a natural shape.” MenWantAbleMovingNaturalFashionCarShapesClothesJokesDressesForgottenDesignerBursting Author:Coco Chanel
“I’m not interested in changing either my suit or my car or whatever with every change in fashion. That’s irrelevant. I don’t judge myself or my friends by their fashions. Of course, I don’t approve of people who are sloppy and unnecessarily shabby or dishevelled… But I’m not impressed by a US$5,000 or US$10,000 Armani suit.” PeopleCoursesFashionCarJudgingMy FriendsSuitsNot InterestedImpressedIrrelevantSingaporeSloppyShabbyNot ImpressedArmani Book:The Wit & Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew Source: The Wit & Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew
“My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from the street. He was homeless, but eventually he got a car so he could sell from the boot. And by the 1980s, he was a millionaire wholesaling to companies like Topshop. So in a way, fashion put me in England.” WayFirstsPersonsCompanyStreetsFashionCarEnglandSellsBrownBootsHomelessUncles1960sMillionaireLanesTopshop Author:M.I.A.
“It is not in our drawing-rooms that we should look to judge of the intrinsic worth of any style of dress. The street-car is a truer crucible of its inherent value.” ShouldLooksValuesRoomsStreetsFashionCarStyleJudgingDressesDrawingInherentCrucible Author:Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward