“London Fashion Week is so different from any of the others. Compared to the strictness in New York, London seems freer from commercial constraints. Truer to the process, to street style, to a sense of humour.” DifferentSeemsProcessWeekStreetsFashionStyleNew YorkHumourLondonConstraintsFashion Week Author:Alexa Chung
“I kind of had an idea that New York would be like Fashion Week, where everyone always looks incredibly chic and cool, and I wouldn't fit in.” LooksKindIdeasWould BeWeekFashionNew YorkFitChicFashion Week Author:Carey Mulligan
“I used to live in New York, and I have friends that work in the fashion world, and I feel like I had an ear to the ground there.” WorldFeelsUsedFashionNew YorkEarsFashion World Author:Gillian Jacobs
“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
“I came to New York when I was 21, 22. I couldn't speak English. I knew I wanted to go to fashion school.” WantedSchoolSpeakFashionNew YorkSpeak English Author:Francisco Costa
“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
“The whole scale and scope of the decorating and fashion business in this country are incomparably grander than in London. Whats thrilling about America in general, and the New York fashion scene in particular, is its optimism. It makes the whole experience energizing and uplifting.” CountryWholeAmericaFashionNew YorkParticularSceneOptimismLondonScalesUpliftingScopeThrillingDecoratingEnergizingFashion Business Author:Hamish Bowles
“I did not go to fashion school. I arrived in New York in 1986 from Kansas City and was working as accessories editor for Mademoiselle Magazine. While working at Mademoiselle I noticed that the market lacked stylish and sensible handbags, so I decided to create my own.” SchoolMy OwnCitiesFashionNew YorkDecidedMagazinesEditorsSensibleAccessoriesKansasStylishHandbagsKansas City Author:Kate Spade
“When I was a kid in San Diego, I would read fashion magazines and Interview magazine, and all of that really inspired me to create a persona. So by the time I moved to New York, in the early '80s, I'd learned how to create a persona, and I knew what my persona would be.” Would BeKidsFashionNew YorkMovedInspiredMagazinesInterviews80sPersonaSan DiegoFashion Magazines Author:RuPaul
“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
“In a fashion similar to the leftist occupiers on Wall Street, their antics would be the target of rabid moral indignation on the front pages of the New York times and Washington Post and on the lead stories of every cable news show.” StoriesShowsWould BeMoralStreetsFashionFrontsNew YorkWallNewsPagesPostsTargetCablesNew York TimesIndignationLeftistsAnticsCable NewsMoral Indignation Author:Jamie Glazov
“It's been hard to be a show in L.A. and be trendsetting, because the fashions are in New York... Not to mention that most actresses are all, give or take, the same size, between five-two and five-five, and 95 to 125 pounds.” GivingTwoHardShowsFiveFashionNew YorkSizeActressesPounds Author:Sarah Michelle Gellar
“I love jezebel.com for the latest on fashion, style, and celebrity gossip. I also love gawker.com for New York celebrity sightings, and galleycat.com and trashionista.com for book news.” BookFashionStyleNew YorkNewsGossipFashion StyleCelebrity GossipJezebel Author:Meg Cabot
“I feel like fashion was much more exclusive. There weren't as many parties. There weren't as many social gatherings. It wasn't required that designers have events to lure customers or editors or any of that - it was about a show. If there was a dinner or a party, people would go out after. New York nightlife was about late nights and dancing.” PeopleIfsFeelsShowsNightSocialPartyFashionEventsNew YorkLateDancingDinnerCustomersDesignerEditorsGatheringExclusiveLureLate NightNightlife Author:Roopal Patel
“New York is vibrant, sexy, naughty, always surprising, and has great live music and great fashion.” FashionNew YorkSexySurprisingNaughtyGreat FashionLive Music Author:David Harewood
“Living in New York, I get inspired by what young women are wearing - everything from high fashion to street fashion.” YoungStreetsFashionNew YorkInspiredYoung WomenHigh Fashion Author:Austin Scarlett
“It is important that New York, in addition to its fashion, and finance, and tourism, and communications infrastructure, also begin developing venture infrastructure that's for real.” ImportantRealFashionNew YorkCommunicationFinanceDevelopingVentureInfrastructureTourism Author:Juan Enriquez
“Ironically, even the fashion in New York or Paris or Milan or whatever, or music in Berlin, or art in, I don't know, Madrid - all these scenes come and go. Everything leads back to Hollywood.” KnowsArtFashionNew YorkSceneHollywoodParisComes And GoesBerlinMadridMilan Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“Growing up in Atlanta, it brings a particular swagger about a person. There are three or four places in the country where people think of fashion: One is LA, obviously. Another is New York. And I think Atlanta has to be in the top five cities where fashion is very big.” PeopleThinkingPersonsCountryBigsThreeCitiesGrowing UpFiveFourGrowingFashionNew YorkParticularSwaggerAtlanta Author:Cam Newton
“When I moved to New York, obviously I work with a lot of high fashion brands and I get to wear insane, totally crazy bags and all this crazy stuff but still, I'll always go back to my original sense of style.” StillsStuffCrazyFashionStyleNew YorkOriginalsMovedInsaneBrandsBagsHigh Fashion Author:Gigi Hadid
“I didn't do well in high school, but I took photography, and I loved being able to capture moments. It led to more and more photography, and fashion was the angle into photography for me. It was incredible to see photographs by Irving Penn or Helmut Newton. I was really intrigued by that, and that's what led me to New York City.” WellsMomentsAbleSchoolCitiesFashionNew YorkPhotographyHigh SchoolIncrediblesPhotographCaptureNew York CityAngleNewtonIntrigued Author:Steven Sebring
“For me, I was born in the Bronx, and I moved to Virginia Beach, Virginia at a very young age. I had the luxury of going back to New York, visiting my grandmother who would spoil me endlessly, and I could buy whatever was the hot kicks in the summertime of 1990. Being able to shop and then going back to Virginia Beach, where they weren't as fast in regards to fashion, I had that luxury.” AgeAbleYoungBornFashionNew YorkHotRegardMovedLuxuryBeachKicksShopsGrandmotherMy GrandmotherYoung AgeSpoilVisitingVirginiaSummertimeBronx Author:Pusha T
“The best city for fashion is Tokyo. You see styles there you won't see in London, Paris, Milan or New York. I also like the fashion scene in Los Angeles - it has a unique look.” LooksCitiesFashionStyleNew YorkSceneUniqueLondonParisLos AngelesTokyoMilan Author:Tommy Hilfiger
“I think in L.A. everybody has a really cool flare, trendy style here. I think I kinda adapt be it I'm a little more trendy in L.A. Somewhere in New York, I could literally sit at a café and have a cappuccino and watch people walk by and it's like a fashion show to me. Compared to somewhere like Miami where I literally wear beachwear all day and I can walk around barefoot. My style is consistent. It may bend a little bit according to cities, but that's about it.” PeopleThinkingMayLittlesI CanShowsBitsWalksCitiesWatchesFashionStyleNew YorkLittle BitConsistentReally CoolMiamiBarefootTrendyFlareFashion ShowCappuccino Author:Kelly Rowland