“I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll wear a ton, and insane pieces that I'm sure most people would consider gross. But I find them inspiring. Our van is currently stocked with some of my random findings from this tour. Maybe I'll call my aesthetic 'van fashion.” PeopleKnowsPiecesFashionFindingsUglyStoresInsaneAestheticGrossVansThrift Author:Victoria Legrand
“When I write I don't aim to shock people, and I'm surprised when I do. But I don't think that anything that occurs in life should be omitted from art, though the artist should present it in a fashion that is artistic and not ugly. I set out to tell the truth. And sometimes the truth is shocking.” PeopleThinkingShouldWritingArtSometimesArtistFashionTruth IsAimUglyArtisticShockTelling The TruthShocking Author:Tennessee Williams
“The art world is now a fashion industry, led by its Whitney Biennial 'nose for the new look.' But nobody, it seems, has the guts or the brains to blow the necessary whistle and holler, 'Hold on guys! What the hell is this ugly bit of business?” WorldLooksArtSeemsGuyBitsBrainHellFashionIndustryBlowUglyNosesGutsArt WorldFashion IndustryWhitneyNew Look Author:Abe Ajay
“I wear the midi because I feel if you're going to look ugly, you may as well look this year's ugly.” IfsFeelsYearsWellsLooksMayFashionUglyMidi Author:Joan Rivers
“For the consumer, fashion is fashion. You can buy something beautiful for $20 and you can buy something ugly for $1,000. It comes down to style. As far as the industry as a whole, it is hard to say. I don't like to separate the worlds.” WorldHardWholeBeautifulFashionStyleIndustryUglyConsumersSomething Beautiful Author:Kelly Cutrone
“You think your friends have good taste in fashion, until they ask you to wear an ugly bridesmaid dress!” ThinkingAsksFashionTasteDressesUglyGood TasteBridesmaids Author:Wendi McLendon-Covey
“Women from fashion magazines, they hate other women. They like to tell other women they are ugly and often it works. Women's magazines are mostly about the outside and not about the inside. About make-up instead of arts and literature. Its such a shame.” ArtHateLiteratureFashionShameUglyMagazinesFashion Magazines Author:Oliviero Toscani
“Actually, I think what is being shown as beauty in fashion magazines right now has become particularly ugly. This kind of straight, blonde very conservative.” ThinkingKindFashionRight NowConservativeUglyMagazinesBlondeFashion Magazines Author:Nan Goldin
“Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.” ArtSometimesBeautifulFashionUgly Author:David Bailey