“Obama was 200 percent advertising. I promote myself to sell my brands. Because now I am a kind of celeb. I am in a different world than the fashion industry. I am with Mick Jagger, Michael Jackson, Madonna. I build me as a celebrity.” WorldKindDifferentFashionIndustryPercentSellsAdvertisingBrandsDifferent WorldsFashion IndustryJaggerCelebs Author:Christian Audigier
“Human beings are many-layered creatures, and do not succumb to the hegemony of others as easily as historians and politicians sometimes imply. Those Welsh, Scottish and Anglo-Irish individuals who became part of the British Establishment in this period did not in the main sell out in the sense of becoming Anglicised look-alikes. Instead, they became British in a new and intensely profitable fashion, while remaining in their own minds and behavior Welsh, or Scottish, or Irish aswell.” MindHumansLooksSometimesIndividualHuman BeingsFashionBecomingPeriodsPoliticianCreaturesBehaviorSellsBritishHistorianEstablishmentProfitableScottishBritish HistoryHegemonyWelsh Author:Linda Colley
“People like to say you're either born with style or you're not, and that's complete hooey. You've gotta develop your own and find your own.If you just put on whatever they're trying to sell you, you will always be out of fashion. Otherwise, they can't keep selling you. So, you will always be out of fashion. Get used to it. That's the game. Whatever they say is fashionable, chuck it.” PeopleIfsTryingUsedGamesBornFashionStyleSellsSellingFashionableChuck Author:Lauren Hutton
“My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from the street. He was homeless, but eventually he got a car so he could sell from the boot. And by the 1980s, he was a millionaire wholesaling to companies like Topshop. So in a way, fashion put me in England.” WayFirstsPersonsCompanyStreetsFashionCarEnglandSellsBrownBootsHomelessUncles1960sMillionaireLanesTopshop Author:M.I.A.
“I went to school for a short period of time to study fashion. I wanted to become a stylist or a designer. I made clothes when I was a teenager that I used to sell online. My label name was "Baby Jesus" - so incredibly stupid, but whatever, I was 17!” MadeWantedSchoolUsedJesusNamesStudyFashionStupidBabyPeriodsClothesSellsLabelsTeenagerDesignerOnlineStylistBaby Jesus Author:Bethany Cosentino
“You have to have your fashion stylist person not sell out and sell your s - t to another pop star because they can pay them twice as much, and do it for the belief and the love of art.” PersonsArtBeliefStarsPayFashionSellsPopsStylistPop Stars Author:M.I.A.