“I mean, a lot of people don't realize it, but fashion is one of the most racial industries left out there now. Radio and music aren't. Television and movies aren't. Even commercials now are showing interracial couples. You see a lot of diversity in TV shows, but you don't see that in fashion. You think there would be some, because the consumer is of all colors and all shades. But you don't see that in fashion.” PeopleThinkingMeanShowsWould BeLeftRealizingFashionTelevisionColorTvsIndustryCoupleDiversityRadioConsumersShadeTv ShowsLeft OutInterracial Couple Author:Tyson Beckford
“I have my own little sense of style. As far as image goes today for a new artist, you'll find that fashion is really important. I wouldn't want to show up for a performance in something that is absolutely the opposite of who I am as an artist.” WantLittlesImportantShowsTodayArtistMy OwnFashionStyleOppositesPerformancesWho I AmNew Artists Author:Miranda Lambert
“You know One Direction do a lot of up tempo songs, but when they did that Ed Sheeran song 'Little Things,' that was probably their biggest song off their last album, so it shows you that a ballad never goes out of fashion.” KnowsLittlesShowsLastsSongFashionAlbumsLittle ThingsTempoOne DirectionBallads Author:Shane Filan
“Fashion Week was at Bryant Park and there were a few shows like Marc Jacobs, or when Alexander McQueen came to town, that were offsite, Helmut [Lung] was offsite, but it was very intimate. It wasn't the way it is today where you have a thousand people at the show. You may have had 200 to 250 and it was really the trade and you know fashion greats.” PeopleKnowsWayMayShowsTodayWeekFashionThousandTownsTradeIntimateParksLungsJacobMcqueenFashion Week Author:Roopal Patel
“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
“In 1993, I had my Super Show in Red Square, Moscow. No one before me had ever gotten permission to use that location and my show included fashion, fireworks, and dancing. I felt like it really communicated my heartfelt belief that all human beings are wonderful and unique individuals.” HumansUseShowsIndividualBeliefFeltHuman BeingsWonderfulFashionUniqueRedDancingSquaresPermissionLocationHeartfeltMoscowFireworksUnique Individuals Author:Kansai Yamamoto
“I go to ballet five days a week. I would love to go to a fashion show one day, because I never have.” ShowsFiveWeekFashionOne DayBalletFashion Show Author:Elle Fanning
“When I went to Fashion Week, I was very disappointed by how few women of color were in those shows. I do speak to the younger girls, and I hear them when they say they're not getting the big contracts or into the big shows.” ShowsBigsGirlSpeakWeekFashionColorContractsDisappointedFashion Week Author:Beverly Johnson
“I hadn't really been in that world for too long. It was fun for me, but definitely wasn't my world. When I went to my first Paris Fashion Week, I had been invited to the Louis Vuitton show by Nicolas. We met there. It was all organic and fun for me.” WorldFirstsLongShowsFunWeekFashionMetsParisInvitedFashion WeekLouis VuittonParis Fashion Author:Selena Gomez
“People showed me this way of dealing with music, writing songs, thinking about music and shows and our community and the fact that it doesn't have to be about being popular or fashion or making money.” PeopleThinkingWayWritingFactsShowsSongCommunityFashionMaking MoneyOur CommunityWriting SongsBeing PopularMusic Writing Author:Chuck Ragan
“I feel like fashion is becoming more inclusive, partly because the industry is finally getting that beauty exists in so many ways, and partly because thanks to Instagram, girls can create their own images, or remix images they're seeing in magazines and fashion shows, in ways that weren't possible before.” WayFeelsShowsGirlSeeingFashionIndustryBecomingMagazinesThanksInstagramBecoming MoreFashion ShowRemix Author:Petra Collins
“Well, my own men's collection always felt very free back in the days before Jil. Once you make it this kind of dialogue with other people, with a fashion show and clients and whatever, it becomes something else. Free meets not so free.” PeopleMenWellsKindShowsFeltMy OwnFashionDialogueCollectionsClientsFashion Show Author:Raf Simons
“Fashion shows are glamorous for 20 minutes.” ShowsMinutesFashionGlamorousFashion Show Author:Alek Wek
“The best part about DJing a fashion show after-party or event is being able to correlate the emotions of the collection with music, just as you would for a show.” ShowsAblePartyEmotionFashionEventsCollectionsFashion ShowAfter Party Author:Mia Moretti
“I am always producing work, but there is always a sort of deadline where you have to finish work. I don't do it for a show. In other words, I am not like a fashion designer where I have a, you know - I have to put out the full line or I have to put out the summer line like that.” KnowsShowsLinesFashionSummerDesignerDeadlineFashion Designer Author:Robert Barry
“After all these years of creating my collections, I still doubt my decision even until the last minute before the fashion show, I keep questioning myself and wondering if I did the right thing.” IfsYearsStillsShowsLastsDecisionWonderDoubtMinutesFashionCreatingRight ThingCollectionsQuestioningLast MinuteFashion Show Author:Sonia Rykiel
“Fashion is also a form of art, and like every kind of art, it has its own way of expression. In other words, if a dress looks better on a thin girl, on a catwalk, during a very specific moment of time and space then it's represented as part of a "fashion Show". It is after all a "Show" and it has to be understood by people that it is a "show" and not real life.” PeopleIfsWayLooksKindArtRealMomentsShowsFormGirlSpaceFashionExpressionUnderstoodDressesReal LifeTime And SpaceFashion ShowCatwalk Author:Sonia Rykiel
“I think I realize now I was really, really scared to express myself through fashion or certain music or certain TV shows. I was petrified that anyone would ever think I was gay god forbid, and so, once I got over that I kind of could just let myself be.” ThinkingKindShowsCertainRealizingFashionTvsGayScaredTv Shows Author:Troye Sivan
“For me, the fashion show, the image, the shooting, is just a step. It's just a moment, but it's not the final destination.” MomentsShowsStepsFashionFinalsShootingDestinationFashion ShowFinal Destination Author:Christophe Lemaire
“My mother worked in fashion design and she used to show me all of these looks. She tried to get me to wear fitted jeans in high school. This is when big jeans were popping.” LooksShowsBigsSchoolUsedMotherFashionDesignHigh SchoolShow MeJeansPoppingFashion Design Author:Iman Shumpert
“I'll show up at Fashion Week with a mink on with a lion head biting my shoulder. I would love that. Oh my God, with a jaguar tail on my shoes. Something crazy.” ShowsWeekCrazyFashionShoesShouldersLionsTailsBitingJaguarsFashion WeekMink Author:Iman Shumpert
“All the shows are immediately on the Internet, on Instagram, on Twitter, it's huge. Everything is live now, and for fashion, it's very important. It's not that it's good or bad, it's just like that and it's not going to change so we have to adapt to it.” ImportantShowsFashionHugeInternetInstagram Author:Delphine Arnault
“We lack an organization that will support fashion week. The five-day week shows a lack of vision and that we are not able to command respect. I am not saying it's anyone's fault in particular, it's our fault. We have the highest concentration of brands, how can we accommodate everyone in four or five days?” ShowsAbleVisionSupportFiveFourWeekFashionParticularHighestOrganizationFaultsCommandBrandsConcentrationAccommodateFashion Week Author:Franca Sozzani
“Going to a fashion show is almost as painful as being in one.” ShowsFashionPainfulFashion Show Author:Christy Turlington
“In America there are people advocating for trans rights and people like Vice President Pence, who is vehemently opposed. In Pakistan, too, you have all kinds of folks - from flamboyant gay fashion designers and female Air Force pilots to the Taliban. A cross-dressed man used to be the top TV talk show host. It was actually quite radical. So the diversity of these societies is often lost on people.” PeopleMenKindShowsAmericaUsedLostForcePresidentRightsAirFashionTvsGayDiversityFemaleCrossesFolksVicesAll KindsUsed To BeRadicalDesignerHostPilotsPakistanTransTalibanVice PresidentAdvocatingFashion DesignerAir ForceTalk ShowsFlamboyant Author:Mohsin Hamid
“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