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People in the fashion industry have used the press a lot more than people in the film industry, because you have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything. ↗

— Elle Macpherson

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Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom. ↗

— Golda Meir

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My worst fashion faux pas: probably orange shoes with white pants. I thought I looked spectacular. ↗

— Kevin O'Leary

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Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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In previous centuries, the Church was the great controller, dictating morality, stifling free expression and posing as conservator of all great art and music. Instead we have TV, doing just as good a job at dictating fashions, thoughts, attitudes, objectives as did the Church, using many of the same techniques but doing it so palatably that no one notices. Instead of ‘sins’ to keep people in line, we have fears of being judged unacceptable by our peers (by not wearing the right shoes, not drinking the right kind of beer, or wearing the wrong kind of deodorant). Coupled with that fear is imposed insecurity concerning our own identities. All answers and solutions to these fears come through the television, and only through television. Only through exposure to TV can the new sins of alienation and ostracism be absolved. ↗

— Anton Szandor LaVey

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Clothes as text, clothes as narration, clothes as a story. Clothes as the story of our lives. And if you were to gather all the clothes you have ever owned in all your life, each baby shoe and winter coat and wedding dress, you would have your autobiography. ↗

— Linda Grant

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Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And falsehoods the truths of other people. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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Come, Philander, let us be a marching, Every one his true love a searching," Would be the most appropriate motto for this chapter, because, intimidated by the threats, denunciations, and complaints showered upon me in consequence of taking the liberty to end a certain story as I liked, I now yield to the amiable desire of giving satisfaction, and, at the risk of outraging all the unities, intend to pair off everybody I can lay my hands on. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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Fashion is about two things: the evolution and the opposite. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

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Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

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