Fashion Industry Quotes - Page 5

• [Donald] Trump said she [Melania Trump] first arrived in New York City to model in 1996. But Michael Felix, an immigration attorney who specializes in the fashion industry, says if you're a foreign model with a work visa, it's unusual to have to return to your home country that frequently.

  Hansi Lo Wang

  Country, Fashion, New York

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• Age is not a taboo in the fashion industry. One should learn what to wear to look good at any age.

  China Machado

  Fashion, Age, Looks

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• I think people who are attracted to the fashion industry are people who are really insecure and looking for a certain identity.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Insecure, Thinking

  Interview with Gus Van Sant, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 3, 2009.

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• Growing up, I wanted to be a sports commentator. Then my aunt introduced me to the fashion industry, and everything sort of fell into place.

  Olivia Palermo

  Sports, Fashion, Growing Up

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• My parents had a factory, so I was linked to the textile and fashion industry.

  Francisco Costa

  Fashion, Parent, Textiles

  Interview with Ryan McGinley, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

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• I think fashion is repulsive. The whole idea that someone else can make clothing that is supposed to be in style and make other people look good is ridiculous. It sickens me to think that there is an industry that plays to the low self-esteem of the general public. I would like the fashion industry to collapse.

  Steve Albini

  Fashion, Self Esteem, Thinking

  "The Verge Q+A: Punk Pioneer Steve Albini on Music Festivals, The Future of Radio and Why He Wants GQ To Fail". Interview with Aaron Lake Smith, www.gq.com. September 29, 2010.

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• I think people try to make the most of their time on earth and also to fix their time on earth. They try to fix external verities, things that are true for all time, ideas that are true for all time: Rome will last forever! America will last forever! Beauty, as defined by the fashion industry, is one of those things—this is beautiful. This will always be beautiful—and hold it in a way that has some sense of permanence about it, and absoluteness. And yet it’s not.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Beautiful, Fashion, Thinking

  Interview with Sheila Heti, www.believermag.com. February 2009.

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• Anna Wintour is the most powerful woman in the global fashion industry, the first lady of fashion. She's a politician; I'm a stylist. They are two very different jobs.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Fashion, Jobs, Powerful

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• Sometimes I get it right and I sometimes I get it wrong. But fashion is all about having fun. I think fashion has been hijacked by the fashion industry creating rules on what one should wear and I feel like breaking the mold and seeing that the world won’t crumble.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Fashion, Fun, Thinking

  "Helena Bonham Carter: Why I Break All the Fashion Rules" by Paul Chi, people.com. January 26, 2011.

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• Business is tough, and the fashion industry is particularly tough.

  Ali Hewson

  Fashion, Tough, Industry

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• Reinvention is the key to surviving this fashion industry. Madonna is the perfect example of reinvention. She has taken something that is so little and turned herself into a legend by simply never staying the same.

  Janice Dickinson

  Fashion, Taken, Keys

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• The pervasive idea is that if you're a man in the fashion industry, you're gay until proven otherwise. And of course there are lots of men who aren't. But people make certain assumptions.

  Tim Gunn

  Fashion, Gay, Men

  Interview with Michael Chernin, www.brownpoliticalreview.org. May 7, 2014.

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• The nice thing about the fashion industry is that you're constantly working on something new.

  Lauren Conrad

  Fashion, Nice, Something New

  "Lauren Conrad Interview On Her New Book, The Future & Fourth Of July". www.realstylenetwork.com.

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• The fashion industry isn't merely content to encase my meaty flanks in skintight denim. Oh, no! That denim also has to be white, a color that attracts ketchup, wine, garlic aioli, and any other foodstuffs I might otherwise be able to enjoy if I wasn't wearing ridiculously tight pants.

  Diablo Cody

  Fashion, Wine, Color

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