“We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?” KnowsWantGovernmentLeaderOpinionWeekStreetsStyleWallIndustryDown AndBillsClintonDisappearFirmUnemploymentInterventionAbrahamUnprecedentedGovernment InterventionLeadership StyleOpinion Leaders Author:Thomas Frank
“Fashion is an industry to make money. It plays into human psychology. We want to belong, we want to be loved. I'm not trying to demonize the fashion industry - I love the fashion industry - but style is about taking the control out of the industry's hand and having you decide what works for you.” WantTryingHumansPlayHandsPsychologyFashionStyleIndustryMaking MoneyFashion Industry Author:Stacy London
“While the fashion industry may, at least at the top end, be thriving, the notion of fashion itself is becoming more and more meaningless. Any discipline in fashion has long since evaporated; the idea of a single fashionable skirt length, or heel height, is incomprehensible. The definition of the fashionable has become so skimpy that it refers not to the mode of dress of everyday people--the clothes that have sufficiently caught the popular imagination to be worn in a widespread manner--but only to the styles that momentarily excite members of the fashion caravan.” PeopleMayLongIdeasEndsImaginationFashionStyleIndustryBecomingDisciplineMembersClothesDressesNotionEverydayCaughtDefinitionsHeightLengthMeaninglessHeelsWornFashionableSkirtsBecoming MoreFashion IndustryCaravans Author:Rebecca Mead
“Andy Wiliams' smooth voice and casual style turned the songs he sang into timeless classics and made him one of America's top pop singers. ... The entertainment industry has lost a giant piece of its living history today, but Williams' legacy will forever be enshrined in the annals of music and television.” MadeTodayAmericaSongLostVoiceForeverPiecesStyleTelevisionIndustryEntertainmentPopsSingersLegacyGiantsSmoothTimelessCasualEntertainment Industry Author:Neil Portnow
“I don't really have a style icon but I really admire the way people dress like Gaga, Rihanna and Gwen Stefani. It's good to be inspired by singers who write music and dress incredibly - rather than models and people in the fashion industry who dress immaculately anyway because it's their style.” PeopleWayWritingFashionStyleIndustryModelsDressesInspiredSingersAdmireIconsBe InspiredFashion IndustryGagaStyle Icons Author:Ellie Goulding
“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
“The fashion industry is no more able to preserve a style that men and women have decided to abandon than to introduce one they do not choose to accept.” MenAbleAcceptingFashionStyleIndustryMen And WomenDecidedPreservesAbandonIntroducingFashion Industry Author:Alison Lurie
“There are so many things I'd like to change in the industry. Everything from the reliance of style over substance to their reluctance to hire me for big budget blockbusters, but the thing I would love most would be if they understood people don't have to be Hollywood beautiful to be sexy or interesting.” PeopleIfsBigsWould BeBeautifulInterestingStyleIndustryUnderstoodHollywoodSexySubstanceBudgetsRelianceReluctanceBlockbuster Author:Colin Mochrie
“You always have to keep up with the trends. The biggest thing is making your own trend and making your own stamp in the fashion industry. Whatever is going to be your style, make that your style and go from there.” FashionStyleIndustryTrendsStampsFashion Industry Author:Dwight Howard
“I've always had an interest in the fashion industry. Fashion advertising and lifestyle branding has always been intriguing and provocative to me. It's not just clothing or style that I had interest in, it was more the marketing side of things that I had intrigue in.” SidesInterestFashionStyleIndustryMarketingLifestyleAdvertisingClothingsBrandingIntrigueIntriguingProvocativeFashion Industry Author:Ashley Purdy
“Someone recently pointed out how much Barack Obama's style and strategies resemble those of Latin American charismatic despots - the takeover of industries by demagogues who never ran a business, the rousing rhetoric of resentment addressed to the masses and the personal cult of the leader promoted by the media. But do we want to become the world's largest banana republic?” WorldWantLeaderMediaStyleIndustryMassStrategyBarackRanLatinRepublicResentmentRhetoricCultLatin AmericaBananasCharismaticDespotsLatin AmericanTakeovers Book:Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt) Source: Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)
“Amazon has included me in an opportunity to provide top-shelf television-style programming live on the world's computer screens. To hold forth with the industry's very best actors, directors, musicians, authors - I'm thrilled to be on the cutting edge of this.” WorldActorsOpportunityCuttingStyleTelevisionIndustryDirectorsComputerMusicianEdgesScreensProgrammingShelvesAmazonCutting EdgeComputer Screen Author:Bill Maher
“The fashion industry is a free world, with creative codes that can be hardly considered sometimes, but it's also up to women to create their own style, and own trend.” WorldSometimesCreativeFashionStyleIndustryCodeTrendsFashion IndustryFree World Author:Sonia Rykiel