“It is short-sighted, not to say stupid, in the correct desire to be relevant as Christian artists in an unchristian age, to pick up the secular fashion of the immediate generation before us and immerse oneself in that as your tradition. That's why Christian artists so often seem to be a generation late.” SeemsAgeChristianDesireArtistCultureChristianityGenerationsFashionStupidLatePicksTraditionOneselfRelevantSecularShort SightedUnchristian Author:Calvin Seerveld
“This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically enough, is so much on self.” SelfEnoughDesireCultureGoneFashionShapesContemporaryEmphasis Author:Lionel Trilling
“Many things have changed in our culture here in England as a direct result of the Pistols: the whole street-fashion thing in London, for example, or the coverage of popular culture in the national press, or the fact that the film industry is now about young people making films about young British issues.” PeopleWholeFactsFilmYoungCultureResultsIssuesStreetsFashionExampleChangedIndustryDirectEnglandPressesBritishLondonCoveragePopular CultureFilm IndustryPistolsThings Have Changed Author:Julien Temple
“Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place.” IdeasSchoolCultureCompanyCreativityFashionSolitudeAchievementGregariousGroupthink Author:Susan Cain
“For me, growing up in hip-hop culture, it's all about having the next style, the new fashion, the new way to express yourself, the fly new beat. I can't sit still; I have no nostalgia. I don't have to have nostalgia.” WayStillsI CanCultureNextGrowing UpGrowingFashionStyleBeatsHip HopNostalgiaHipsHopsNew WaysExpress Yourself Author:El-P
“My wife is very interested in fashion. I am absolutely not. I couldn't give a toss. Fashion is a perfectly valid thing to be interested in. I'm just not particularly interested in pop culture. I think I am more interested in things that have a settled permanence about them.” ThinkingGivingCultureWifeFashionPopsMy WifePop CultureTossPermanence Author:Simon Winchester
“A meme (rhymes with dream) is a unit of information (a catchphrase, a concept, a tune, a notion of fashion, philosophy or politics) that leaps from brain to brain. Memes compete with one another for replication, and are passed down through a population much the same way genes pass through a species. Potent memes can change minds, alter behavior, catalyze collective mindshifts and transform cultures. Which is why meme warfare has become the geopolitical battle of our information age. Whoever has the memes has the power.” WayMindPhilosophyDreamAgeCultureBrainFashionInformationBattleBehaviorConceptsSpeciesNotionPopulationTunesCollectivesLeapGenesWarfareUnitsRhymeInformation AgeWhy MeMemesGeopoliticalReplication Author:Kalle Lasn
“In our culture, futility plays the role of transgression and fashion is condemned for having within it the force of the pure sign which signifies nothing.” PlayCultureForceRolesFashionPureFutilityTransgression Book:Symbolic Exchange and Death Source: Symbolic Exchange and Death
“I love how pop culture shapes a generation. The trends, fashion and events all play a key part in how we live our present lives, and will mark how we will be remembered in the future.” PlayCultureGenerationsFashionEventsKeysShapesMarkPopsRememberedTrendsPop CulturePresent Life Author:Connor Franta
“The truth is, everything we know about America, everything Americans come to know about being American, isn't from the news. I live there. We don't go home at the end of the day and think, "Well, I really know who I am now because the Wall Street Journal says that the Stock Exchange closed at this many points." What we know about how to be who we are comes from stories. It comes from the novels, the movies, the fashion magazines. It comes from popular culture.” ThinkingKnowsWellsEndsStoriesHomeAmericaCultureNovelStreetsFashionWallTruth IsNewsWho I AmMagazinesWho We AreThe End Of The DayJournalPopular CultureStock ExchangeWall Street JournalFashion Magazines Author:Chris Abani
“But here’s the thing: Appropriation occurs when a style leads to racist generalizations or stereotypes where it originated, but is deemed as high fashion, cool, or funny when the privileged take it for themselves. Appropriation occurs when the appropriator is not aware of the deep significance of the culture that they are partaking in.” CultureFashionStyleRacistSignificancePrivilegedStereotypeGeneralizationAppropriationHigh Fashion Author:Amandla Stenberg
“Fashion is not art. Fashion isnt even culture. Fashion is advertising, and advertising is money. And for every dollar you earn, someone has to pay.” ArtCulturePayFashionDollarsAdvertising Author:Gia Carangi
“Fashion is part of our culture, and it's about more than just a pretty dress.” CultureFashionDresses Author:Joan Smalls
“New York City is the most important location in the world... it is the center for fashion, culture and finance.” WorldImportantCultureCitiesFashionNew YorkFinanceNew York CityLocation Author:Jared Kushner
“When I started Dylan's Candy Bar in 2001, I wanted it to be a place that merged my love of pop culture, fashion, art and music with candy. Since then, we have been fortunate to pioneer artistic partnerships with many legends.” Has BeensArtWantedCultureFashionPopsBarsArtisticFortunateLegendsPartnershipCandyDylanPop CulturePioneersArt And MusicCandy Bar Author:Dylan Lauren
“Women are objectified in our culture. And more and more, it takes a great deal of confidence, especially as a woman, to break the mold. You know, you're afraid that you're going to covered in a magazine as a "fashion don't." That's why you see all these girls on the red carpet looking the same.” KnowsCultureGirlDealsBreakFashionRedMagazinesCoveredCarpetMoldRed Carpet Author:Tom Ford
“I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go, I have never yet encountered a mode of thinking that regarded itself as simply a changing fashion, and not as an infallible approach to the right culture.” ThinkingCultureLiteratureFashionApproachThoughtfulFadesInfallibleFads Author:Ellen Glasgow
“Romance never does go out of fashion. It's radical. But it's out of step with the current media culture.” DoeRomanceCultureStepsMediaFashionCurrentsRadical Author:Bob Dylan
“I think we are becoming more and more linked, and before long, we'll all be one culture. It's happening in every field, not just fashion. Actually, I think the only hope for peace is if culture is homogenized. Unfortunately, money seems to be the only solution to political disagreements. If we are all linked through culture and trade, it won't be worth fighting each other.” IfsThinkingLongSeemsPoliticalCultureFightingFashionFieldsBecomingSolutionsHappeningsTradeLinkedDisagreementBecoming MoreFighting Each Other Author:Tom Ford
“I've always thought that "punk" wasn't really a genre. My band started in Olympia where K Records was and K Records put out music that didn't sound super loud and aggressive. And yet they were punk because they were creating culture in their own community instead of taking their cue from MTV about what was real music and what was cool. It wasn't about a certain fashion. It was about your ideology, it was about creating a community and doing it on your own and not having to rely on, kinda, "The Man" to brand you and say that you were okay.” MenRealCertainCultureSoundCommunityRecordsFashionHe ManBandCreatingOkayIdeologyBrandsGenreLoudRelyAggressivePunkMtvReal Music Author:Kathleen Hanna
“One of the first things was I made Arlo [the Apatosaurus] a younger character. And then when I was that age (around 11 or 12), what was I like? Sweat pants, turtle-neck kid; didn't know anything about fashion or style, the culture of the world. I was very sheltered.” KnowsWorldFirstsMadeCharacterKidsAgeCultureFashionStyleNecksSweatPantsTurtlesCultures Of The World Author:Peter Sohn
“I think more and more, if you live in the current world - and live internationally - it's all a mix of interests, and the same people who are interested in fashion are also interested in movies, art, and culture.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldArtCultureInterestFashionCurrentsArt And Culture Author:Miuccia Prada
“I got involved in fashion by accident. When I got to New York, my intention was to have enough money to eat and to stay and I don't have to leave. I just loved New York - the energy, the culture, the freedom.” EnoughCultureEnergyFashionNew YorkInvolvedIntentionAccidents Author:Elie Tahari
“How did we lose our culture? Black people used to all do the same thing on Saturdays. We all watched "Soul Train" and "American Bandstand", got our fashion and dance tips, and then we emulated it and bought those records that we heard. Now it seems like there is no culture. The school of fish are all separate. Everybody's just randomized, listening to their own thing in their earbuds, and there's no uniformity. That bothers me.” PeopleSoulSeemsSchoolUsedCultureBlackLosesRecordsHeardFashionListeningTrainFishesBotherBlack PeopleSaturdayUniformitySoul TrainSchools Of Fish Author:DJ Quik
“I think it's a tribute to the artistic importance of hip-hop culture and what hip-hop has brought into music and fashion and jewelry that it is being adapted or imitated or is inspiring variations or new types of art or new types of music.” ThinkingArtCultureFashionTypeImportanceHip HopArtisticHipsHopsVariationJewelryTributeAdapted Author:Simon de Pury
“Trends in culture all serve a purpose and that's always indicative in fashion and music, you can always tell what's going on culturally in the mindset of the young generation if you look at those mediums.” IfsLooksYoungPurposeCultureGenerationsFashionMindsetMediumsTrendsYoung GenerationFashion And Music Author:Marina and the Diamonds
“We are devastated to learn of the death of Alexander McQueen, one of the greatest talents of his generation. He brought a uniquely British sense of daring and aesthetic fearlessness to the global stage of fashion. In such a short career, Alexander McQueen's influence was astonishing - from street style, to music culture and the world's museums. His passing marks an insurmountable loss.” WorldCultureLossCareersGenerationsInfluenceStreetsStageTalentFashionStyleMarkBritishPassingPassingsMuseumsAestheticDaringAstonishingFearlessnessDevastatedInsurmountableMcqueenMusic Culture Author:Anna Wintour
“I've always wanted to do things differently, and if one person or ten people are doing the same, then I want to do it differently. I love to travel, I love art, I love fashion. I love going to great restaurants and trying different things. Different cultures are inspiring to me.” PeopleIfsWantTryingPersonsArtDifferentWantedCultureFashionTenRestaurantsDifferent ThingsDifferent CulturesLove FashionI Love FashionTrying Different ThingsGreat Restaurants Author:Molly Sims
“I'm working on this fashion line that's all inspired by Vietnam. I'm Vietnamese so a lot of the clothes are inspired by Vietnamese culture, and I'm trying to mix that with the streetwear style.” TryingCultureLinesFashionStyleClothesInspiredVietnamVietnamese Author:Tyga
“The ability to look at certain patterns with regards to urban fashion, with regards to swagger, with regards to cultural hegemony, with regards to the ways in which young people look at resistance culture as a pattern that should be mimicked and admired.” PeopleWayShouldLooksYoungCertainCultureAbilityFashionRegardPatternsResistanceUrbanSwaggerHegemony Author:Kehinde Wiley
“Fashion has never been considered part of culture in Canada, and I think that needs to happen.” ThinkingNeedsHappensCultureFashionCanada Author:Joe Mimran
“There's a lot of funding of the media and film in particular, literary publishing gets recognized as culture. I think fashion should too.” ThinkingShouldFilmCultureMediaFashionParticularPublishingFunding Author:Joe Mimran
“Many other countries that Canada competes with, fashion is part of their culture, whether it be the U.K. or Italy. They get a lot of support from the government. I think that's going to be required here in Canada, if we ever want to truly get behind the creativity that is here in this country.” IfsThinkingWantCountryGovernmentCultureBehindsCreativitySupportFashionCanadaOther Countries Author:Joe Mimran
“Sports will always be important in global culture, and so fashion, as a reflection of cultural trends, will always incorporate influences from sports.” ImportantCultureSportsInfluenceFashionReflectionTrends Author:Giorgio Armani
“This has been a huge problem for a very long period of time that we have, that Mexico's economy and Mexico's socialist orientation makes it so that people want to come to the United States in such numbers. I wish that we could figure out a way to do this in a legal fashion because I believe in the Latino culture.” PeopleWayWantBelieveLongHas BeensStatesProblemCultureI BelieveWishUnitedNumbersUnited StatesEconomyFashionFiguresHugePeriodsI Believe InMexicoSocialistLatinoOrientationLong Periods Of TimeLatino Culture Author:Andrew Breitbart
“In this post-modern culture in which we live - where people question absolute truth - stories are resistant to platitudes; they're resistant to me making declarations of truth to them. A story can do that in kind of a Trojan-horse fashion.” PeopleKindStoriesCultureCan DoModernFashionHorseAbsolutesPostsDeclarationAbsolute TruthPlatitudesModern CultureTrojansTrojan Horse Author:Max Lucado
“I feel like Hip Hop culture has always been about [fashion]...it started in the street so it has always been a thing of the streets to be first.” FeelsFirstsCultureStreetsFashionHip HopHipsHops Author:Pusha T
“I don't understand the fashion industry and the appeal of it. I understand that there are some people who think it's important to them, and they're designers, they're artists, but there seems to be a disproportionate amount of our culture that's caught up in that and the red carpet stuff. It seems like there's a disproportionate amount of attention placed on that.” PeopleThinkingImportantSeemsArtistCultureStuffAttentionFashionIndustryAmountRedCaughtAppealsDesignerCaught UpCarpetRed CarpetFashion Industry Author:Jim Gaffigan
“The only people who really love the '80s are millennials. We had Reagan and Bush for our entire youth, the culture was terrible, the fashions were terrible, the movies were terrible.” PeopleCultureFashionYouthTerrible80sMillennials Author:Brett Morgen
“The construction of femininity is a construction, yes, but also it can be twisted and turned around in such a way that doesn't necessarily mean it is pointing to the female body or male body in such a binary fashion. The culture is already there and has always been, but not as equal citizens. I think there is more progress to come.” ThinkingMeanCultureProgressFashionEqualFemaleConstructionFemininityPointingTwistedBinaryFemale Body Author:Lorna Simpson
“There are many more important things in life than fashion. But fashion, to me, is part of pop culture. And I'm an art collector. I'm obsessed with art and pop culture. And I say that there is fame, fashion, art, music and entertainment, including celebrity, that really moves the needle in society.” ArtImportantMovingCultureFashionFameObsessedPop Culture Author:Tommy Hilfiger
“The only way to make a criticism of something is to really participate in it. I'm a completely capitalist person. I participate in commodity culture and the fashion world. High art is a money-making vehicle. We're not making art in a vacuum. We're not shopping in the woods. These are all things that we do within the larger system of capitalism. For me to critique it, I'm also participating in it. That's obvious, I feel. In my work, I participate in the things that I critique. I satirize the things that I love and know well and find problematic.” WorldArtCultureFashionArt IsCapitalismCriticismObviousCapitalistVehicleCommodityCritique Author:Chloe Wise