“I think that we pay much more attention to fashion and our hair, skin and foreheads, our abdominal muscles and shoes than what is happening in the world. We willingly take that 'drug' and go along with that.” ThinkingWorldPayAttentionFashionHairDrugHappeningsSkinsShoesMusclesForeheadsAbdominals Author:Meryl Streep
“Nowadays New-York is not the exciting place it used to be. It still has great energy; I still put my finger in the socket. But it doesn't feel alive, cracking with that synergy between the art world and music world and fashion world that was happening in the 80s. A lot of people died.” PeopleWorldFeelsArtStillsUsedEnergyAliveFashionNew YorkHappeningsExcitingDiedFingersUsed To Be80sArt WorldSynergyFashion World Author:Madonna Ciccone
“Anyone who thinks designers don't talk to editors, and editors don't talk to stores doesn't know what's happening...It's called crossover, sampling all references in music, art and fashion.” ThinkingKnowsArtFashionHappeningsStoresDesignerEditorsCrossoverSampling Author:Marc Jacobs
“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
“My advice to the 10 year old daughter is: fashion happens in a context. It's societal, it's cultural, it's historic, it's economic, and it's political. So all of her studies, everything that is happening in the world, all needs to be channeled through her in order to be a good designer.” WorldNeedsYearsHappensPoliticalOrderStudyEconomicAdviceFashionHappeningsDaughterDesignerHistoricGood Design Author:Tim Gunn
“What's called art now probably has some legitimate things happening in it, but I've become more and more distrustful of a lot of it because it seems like an extension of the fashion trade and the stock market.” ArtSeemsFashionHappeningsTradeThings HappenExtensions Author:Art Spiegelman
“There weren't paparazzi standing outside. There weren't all these photographers. People really didn't know what fashion was and what was happening in the tents.” PeopleKnowsFashionHappeningsStandingPhotographerStanding OutTentsPaparazzi Author:Roopal Patel
“I always try to connect with what's happening in the world-reality, modernity, the 21st century, all that - and with Jil it started to feel very disconnected from the outside and how women were looking at fashion, experiencing fashion, interpreting fashion.” WorldFeelsTryingRealityCenturyFashionHappenings21st CenturyModernityDisconnectedInterpreting Author:Raf Simons
“Chocolate and candy. That's what we brought in to our friends. We worked in East Berlin with other artists who were smuggled out to come work in the Western Bloc. It was extraordinary because people in East Berlin just wanted to know what was happening. Music. Fashion. The news. All of the things we get every day.” PeopleKnowsWantedArtistFashionNewsHappeningsWesternExtraordinaryEastChocolateCandyBerlinEast Berlin Author:Whoopi Goldberg