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“You can never forget the time you are living in because the past is the past and it will never come back. So to adjust your philosophy and creativity in fashion to the time you’re living in is the most important thing.”

Important Philosophy Past Forget Creativity Fashion Important Things Never Forget

Author:Donatella Versace

“Ballet is the repetitive training of the body for the purpose of executing steps in traditional fashion. It is tied to and bound by the past. It is a disciplined beauty consciously preserved in the image of the old days in societies that were class-conscious and appreciative of elitist physical expertise.”

Body Past Purpose Steps Class Fashion Training Conscious Bounds Traditional Ballet Tied Expertise Old Days Appreciative Repetitive Elitist Executing

Author:Shirley MacLaine

“When seen in retrospect, fashions seem to express their era. Although it is more difficult to draw conclusions from contemporary clothes, the same principles which hold for the clothes of the past must hold for clothes of the present and the future.”

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Author:James Laver

“Fashion postulates an achrony, a time which does not exist; here the past is shameful and the present is constantly "eaten up" by the Fashion being heralded.”

Doe Past Fashion Shameful

Book:Systeme de la Mode

Source: Systeme de la Mode

“Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a Right, the natural right of the present over the past.”

Past Natural Fashion Oppression Refusal Over The Past Subversion

Book:Systeme de la Mode

Source: Systeme de la Mode

“Today, every principle of identity is affected by fashion, precisely because of its potential to revert all forms to non-origin and recurrence. Fashion is always retro, but always on the basis of the abolition of the passé (the past): the spectral death and resurrection of forms. Its proper actuality (its 'up-to-dateness', its 'relevance') is not a reference to the present, but an immediate and total recycling.”

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Book:Symbolic Exchange and Death

Source: Symbolic Exchange and Death

“The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.”

Men Soul Character Past Memories Alive Fashion Tests Riches Test Of Character

Book:Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion

Source: Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion

“Your desire or beliefs will literally be reaching back into time, teaching the nerves new tricks. Definite reorganizations in that past will occur in your present, allowing you to behave in entirely new fashions. Learned behavior therefore alters not only present and future but also past conduct.”

Past Desire Belief Teaching Fashion Behavior Tricks Behave Reaching Nerves Allowing Definite Reorganization Learned Behavior Reaching Back

Book:The Nature of Personal Reality (A Seth Book): Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know

Source: The Nature of Personal Reality (A Seth Book): Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know

“If I never explore my limits, my bodymind will gradually tighten and become unconscious. If I regularly explore my limits in a caring and adventuresome fashion, I will expand and grow in a vital fashion. But if I try to push myself past where I am honestly able to go, I will no longer be practicing yoga but instead will be practicing greed, and I will probably be met by pain and disease. Stated simply, it is the difference between ignoring your self, making love to yourself, and raping yourself.”

Ifs Trying Self Able Pain Past Grows Differences Fashion Mets Limits Disease Yoga Greed Caring Honestly Unconscious Making Love

Author:Ken Dychtwald

“Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the legislator of the first, and novelty of the last. Custom, therefore, looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present.”

Firsts Looks Two Lasts Past Law Party Fashion Fool Description Customs Novelty Clash Legislators Precedent

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“History does influence our lives - every moment. We never sort of live our lives in a linear fashion. We always have these memories and these images from our past that sometimes were not even aware of, and they sort of shape who we are.”

Doe Sometimes Moments Past Memories Our Lives Influence Fashion Shapes Who We Are Our Past Linear Live Every Moment

Author:Dinaw Mengestu

“I've been dressing Renee on the red carpet for the past three years, ... I think she always looks great. She has the right proportion for my clothes. She has that tiny waist and she loves fashion.”

Thinking Years Looks Past Three Fashion Clothes Red Tiny Proportion Three Years Dressings Carpet Red Carpet Love Fashion

Author:Carolina Herrera