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" Why are women so fond of raking up the past? They're as bad as tailors, who invariably remember what you owe them for a suit long after you've ceased to wear it."

Saki (Hector Hugh Munro, scriitor englez) in nuvela Reginald (disponibila via Proiectul Gutenberg)

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"I do believe the all of us fashion bloggers, fashion supporters and fashion creators alike, are re-empowering fashion in the search for its original meaning, aside from its aesthetic values, and working at re-establishing it, not as a necessity, but as an art form and as an universal and unique form of individual expression."

Ioana Liliana Gheorghe, Fashezine.

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"Imi place vulgaritatea daca are vitalitate. Putin prost gust este ca un strop de paprika. Avem cu toti nevoie de putin prost gust. Este viguros, sanatos, fizic. Cred ca am putea se ne folosim mai mult. Sunt doar contra absentei gustului."

Diana Vreeland, via un articol biografic pe Fashion&Beauty, scris de Octavian Coifan.

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"Fashion is not a place for truth. Everything is based on artifice, idealism, the romance of youth, of beauty. There isn’t any truth in fashion. Fashion is not art, it is a business related to an applied art. It’s a trade: clothes are made to be sold and worn. There is an unconscious agreement between the designers and journalists. It’s to stimulate desire, not to find the truth. Women don’t want the truth, they want a trend."

Alicia Drake, autoarea "A Beautiful Fall", intr-un interviu pentru ViceLand

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"The ones made by Levi Strauss are the best-cut, best-looking pair of pants designed by anybody. Nobody will ever top the original bluejeans. They can't be bought old, they have to be bought new and they have to be worn in by the person. To get that look. And they can't be phoney bleached or phoney anything. You know that little pocket. It's crazy to have that little little pocket, like for a twenty-dollar gold piece."

Andy Warhol, "The Philosophy of Andy Warhol", Penguin Books, pag. 13

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"cei care citesc o revistă uită că paginile de modă, aproape ca un adevărat designer, sugerează, nu dictează. (...) Un editorial de modă trebuie tratat ca o lecţie de şcoală. E ca un text din care profesorul te pune să scoţi ideile principale. Trebuie să treci peste fotografie şi să preiei doar ceea ce ţi se potriveşte sau te poate inspira, în funcţie de personalitatea şi statutul tău social. (...) Moda este ca un supermarket: cumpărăm doar ceea ce ne trebuie şi, din cînd în cînd, mai dăm o raită şi pe la celelalte raioane, ca să vedem ce mai este nou."

Ovidiu Buta, în Dilema Veche

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"Couture isn't an industry any more. It's a savoir-faire and a service. If you think of it in terms of an industry it's totally decadent."

Didier Grumbach, citat în The Independent.

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The truly fashionable are beyond fashion.

Cecil Beaton

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"Fashion has very little to do with IT (...) you will gonna find that 80% of your time or 80% of this business is actually in the math, in the formulas, in the strategies. (...) The design part of it really has very little to do with IT also."

Mercedes Gonzalez, în prezentarea "How to start a fashion line in today's market".

Prezentarea e mai veche, discutabilă (e eficient să copiezi, creativitatea e practic uitată etc.) și destule principii au fost modificate de către criza economică a ultimilor ani, dar este foarte important că asemenea materiale există și pot fi accesate de către un public mai larg. New York Public Library oferă conferința aceasta (și altele) atât pe site, in format audio sau video, cât și prin proiectul iTunes U. Nu știu câți dintre voi folosesc programul iTunes, dar, pe lângă muzică și seriale TV, există o gamă întreagă de materiale, inclusiv pentru cei pasionați de modă, fotografie sau artă, oferite de instituții de învățământ și muzee (Yale, Victoria&Albert, Universitatea RMIT, MET, OTIS College of Art and Design etc). Dacă modificați țara în iTunes Store, trecând în domeniul SUA, obțineți acces la secțiunea Podcasts - vă puteți abona la diverse canaluri de materiale video sau audio ce se vor descărca automat în calculatorul vostru. Style.com postează materiale video despre colecții, cu interviuri și comentarii (Style Videos), dar și Style Studio. Găsiți și Vogue.TV, Chanel, ThreadBanger (pentru cei pasionați de DIY), Ford Models, Topshop ș.a. Mult succes la studiu! :)

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It's funny, when you actually think about it, how nearly and complacently the fashion world conforms to the generalized view. It does prefer skinny people to fat, the nibbler to the plate cleaner. Designers do have one behavior for the press and another, less exemplary one for those whose good opinion doesn't matter to them.

Cathy Horyn

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A lot of what is happening in fashion today is simply endless repetition - infinite echoes of what has already been done. Ironic that in the midst of such narcissism, there is actually such conformity. Somehow our extreme individualism has morphed into a bunch of identical copy cats. Because our individuality is never strictly our own.

Lucy Collins, Worn Through

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“Glamour is what makes a man ask for your telephone number. But it also is what makes a woman ask for the name of your dressmaker.”

Lilly Daché, creatoare de palarii din prima jumatate a secolului XX.

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"Fashion writers, like any other commentators on artistic work, should be critics rather than popular cheerleaders. Loving frocks and the world of showbiz personalities are not enough. A fashion journalist needs to have the knowledge to differentiate between the good, the average and the bad"

Colin McDowell

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“(Women) are not just there to be

admired, they are there to be enjoyed.”

Ellen Von Unwerth

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Incet-incet, in moda se reinnoiesc standardele, dupa chipul si asemanarea celor care chiar ii tin pe retaileri in viata, prin consumul lor. Pentru ca moda nu-si mai permite sa vanda iluzii unei consumatoare care "face" haina. Pentru ca moda va mai fi un business, de acum, doar daca va fi nitel conforma cu realitatea...

Paula Negrea, pe blogul personal

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"there really aren't such things as "trends" any more (...) you should wear whatever you damn well want"

Hadley Freedman, pe The Guardian.

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"in setting a search engine on the past, a creative mind is looking for a spark of an idea — not a replica of the clothes"

Suzy Menkes

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"designers are often the worst dressed in the room because they are too busy thinking about how to dress others"

Richard Sorger & Jenny Udale, "Fundamentals of Fashion Design" (amazon)

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“I hate trends And you know the question they always ask me at shows; ‘What’s the latest trend?’".

Grace Coddington, Times

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Creative people are crazy, schizophrenic, absurd, and shocking without having enough lived experiences to serve as background for really valuable creations.

Stanislav Lem