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Fashion
«Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.»
Author: Elsa Schiaparelli
(Fashion designer)
| About:
Fashion
| Keywords:
copy, evening clothes, lengthen, lengthened, lengthening, lengthens, shortening, shortens, skirt, skirted, trends
«Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.»
Author: Paul de Man
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Fashion
| Keywords:
ashes, flames, Left Behind, revealing, shaped, The Ashes, trace, uniquely
«Fashion is as profound and critical a part of the social life of man as sex, and is made up of the same ambivalent mixture of irresistible urges and inevitable taboos.»
Author: Rene Konig
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Fashion,
Sex
| Keywords:
ambivalent, critical, irresistible, mixture, Sex and, taboo, taboos, The Social, urges
«Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.»
Author: Coco Chanel
(Fashion designer)
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Architecture,
Fashion
| Keywords:
architecture, proportions
«Fashion is a tyrant from which there is no deliverance; all must conform to its whimsical»
Author: French Proverb
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Fashion
| Keywords:
conform, conform to, deliverance, tyrant, whimsical
«Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Fashion
| Keywords:
after a fashion, alter, each month, every month, fashion, fashioning, form, intolerable, months, month by month, out of fashion, six, This month, ugliness
«Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
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Fashion
| Keywords:
gentility, overtaken, overtaking, vulgarity