“I love that you can have the language between the two worlds of technology and fashion, because I don't think that many designers get to do that.” ThinkingWorldTwoLanguageTechnologyFashionDesignerTwo Worlds Author:Stella McCartney
“In a very real sense, the Constitution is our compact with history . . . [but] the Constitution can maintain that compact and serve as the lodestar of our political system only if its terms are binding on us. To the extent we depart from the document's language and rely instead on generalities that we see written between the lines, we rob the Constitution of its binding force and give free reign to the fashions and passions of the day.” IfsGivingRealPoliticalPassionLanguageForceTermLinesWrittenFashionConstitutionRelyDocumentsReignPolitical SystemsBindingCompactGeneralitiesBetween The Lines Author:Alex Kozinski
“We ought always to conform to the manners of the greater number, and so behave as not to draw attention to ourselves. Excess either way shocks, and every man truly wise ought to attend to this in his dress as well as language, never to be affected in anything and follow without being in too great haste the changes of fashion.” MenWayWellsLanguageNumbersAttentionGreaterWiseFashionHe ManOughtDrawsDressesEvery ManMannersBehaveShockAffectedExcessConformHaste Author:Moliere
“The language of salesmanship was no doubt born with the first fashions in fig leaves in the garden of Eden. A strange concept has grown around it: if something is to be sold, inaccuracy is not immoral. Hence the art of advertisement - untruthfulness combined with repetition.” IfsFirstsArtLanguageBornDoubtFashionStrangeConceptsGardenAdvertisingNo DoubtRepetitionImmoralEdenAdvertisementsGarden Of EdenFigsSalesmanshipUntruthfulness Author:Freya Stark
“The erotic element always present in fashion, the kiss of loving labor on the body, is now overtly expressed by language. Belts hug or clasp; necklines plunge; jerseys bind. The word exciting tingles everywhere.” BodyLanguageFashionKissingElementsClothesLaborExcitingHugBeltsEroticJerseyPlunge Book:On the contrary Source: On the contrary
“Vulgarism in language is the distinguishing characteristic of bad company, and a bad education. A man of fashion avoids nothing with more care than that. Proverbial expressions, and trite sayings, are the flowers of the rhetoric of vulgar man.” MenCareLanguageCompanyFashionExpressionFlowerCharacteristicsRhetoricVulgarVulgarityProverbialBad CompanyBad Education Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“A man of fashion never has recourse to proverbs, and vulgar aphorisms; uses neither favourite words nor hard words, but takes great care to speak very correctly and grammatically, and to pronounce properly; that is, according to the usage of the best companies.” MenHardUseCareSpeakLanguageCompanyFashionAphorismFavouriteVulgarVulgarityUsageRecourseHard WordsBest Company Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their alliances with words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words. But words turn and twist the understanding. This it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences inactive. Words are mostly cut to the common fashion and draw the distinctions which are most obvious to the common understanding. Whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or more diligent observation would alter those lines to suit the true distinctions of nature, words complain.” MenBelieveReasonPhilosophyTurnsNamesBeliefLanguageUnderstandingLinesCommonGreaterCuttingFashionDrawsObviousComplainingSuitsObservationDistinctionIdolsTwistsAlliancesDiligentTroublesome Author:Francis Bacon
“What you wear represents you to the world, especially now, when communication between people is so fast. Fashion is a universal language that everyone understands.” PeopleWorldLanguageFashionCommunicationUniversalUniversal Language Author:Miuccia Prada
“There's a huge and hungry market for the books on style and fashion in Russia, though the books should be done in Russian, not English since there are few readers who've master foreign languages well enough to buy foreign editions.” ShouldWellsBookDoneEnoughLanguageFashionStyleMastersHugeReaderRussiaHungryForeign LanguageFashion And Style Author:Alexander Vassiliev
“I worked in fashion forecasting and I think that helps in being an editor because I love to know what's next, and I like to predict. I like to predict the trends going into the shows and normally I've organized all of our stories before we go. Fashion is my second language.” ThinkingHelpingLanguageFashion Author:Glenda Bailey
“Hyperpolyglots are not born, and they are not made, but they are born to be made. There is a finite subset of the human population which has the right neurological equipment for learning and using lots of languages. That equipment may serve only a sub-component of language learning, such as mimicry, pattern recognition, or memory, or it serves those sub-components in a global fashion.” LanguageMemoriesFashionRecognition Author:Michael Erard