“The world will see many fashions of art and most of the world will follow the fashions and make none. These cults - these 'movements' - are absolutely necessary, or at any rate their causes are, for somewhere in their centres are the ones who bear the Idea, the ones who have questioned, 'But what do I think?' and 'How shall I say it best?” ThinkingWorldArtIdeasCausesFashionMovementBearsRateCentreCult Author:Robert Henri
“Fashion being the art of those who must purchase notice at some cheaper rate than that of being beautiful, loves to do rash and extravagant things. She must be forever new, or she becomes insipid.” ArtBeautifulForeverFashionRateCheaperExtravagantBeing BeautifulInsipidBeautiful Love Book:Conversations on Some of the Old Poets Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets
“With issues like our country's teen-age pregnancy rate, fashion's importance ranks right up there with cleaning your ears. Except right before going on television to talk about teen-age pregnancy rates, when all I can think of is what I'm going to wear.” ThinkingI CanCountryAgeIssuesFashionTelevisionEarsImportanceRateOur CountryPregnancyCleaning Author:Jane Pratt
“Why, just a couple of economic seasons ago, was idle cash considered an indication of bad management or lazy management? Because it meant that management didn't have this money out at work ... Now look. Presto! A new fashion! Cash is back in! Denigrating liquidity has dropped quicker than hemlines. A management is now saluted if it has some cash, some liquidity, doesn't have to go to the money market at huge interest rates to get the wherewithal to keep going and growing. Along with Ben Franklin, my father and your father would understand and applaud this new economic fashion.” IfsLooksFatherInterestMoneyGrowingEconomicFashionHugeCoupleSeasonsManagementRateLazyKeep GoingCashIdleIndicationFranklinInterest RateLiquidityBen Franklin Author:Malcolm Forbes
“Hell is out of fashion --institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the gaps between the bars are the sutures of one's own skull. . .” HellCenturyFashionRateAffairBarsGaps20th CenturySkullsDungeonsInfernoBuchenwald Author:J. G. Ballard
“Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.” EndsFriendshipQualityToo MuchFashionHabitDegreesClothesRateFamiliarExpensesEstatesAcquaintanceUndoing Author:Matthew Hale
“In my early days, fashion was considered a very high risk industry. The failure rate is very high. Trying to get capital and trying to find people who specialize in that industry is very difficult too.” PeopleTryingDifficultRiskFashionIndustryRateHigh Risk Author:Joe Mimran