Clothes, as much as music, have an eerie echo of time and place.
“Clothes, as much as music, have an eerie echo of time and place.”
— Suzy Menkes · Echo
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Clothes, as much as music, have an eerie echo of time and place.
“Clothes, as much as music, have an eerie echo of time and place.”
— Suzy Menkes · Echo
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“Clothes, as much as music, have an eerie echo of time and place.”
“I think there's too much mixing fashion and intellect. Fashion ultimately is designed to cover the human body, to give you joy, to make you feel better. I don't think it has to have a great intellectual meaning.”
“I think there's a sort of agony with all intelligent and very creative designers that it's only fashion, that in the end it's only the decorative arts. I had a feeling towards the end that Saint Laurent and Berge were very keen to attain that immortality that a lot of designers long for. You know, those endless exhibitions.”
“My style has always been to choose the charming and quirky.”
“The clothes that fire up my emotions are colorful and 'different' pieces. My eye still picks out gilded-cloque glamour from among Burberry's streamlined trench coats or a hand-printed coat from Dries Van Noten.”
“There is no doubt that online shopping has fed the craze for speed, because when you can't touch the fabric or try on the outfit, the only emotion you experience is the excitement of the purchase and the thrill of beating everyone else to it.”
“Translation is at best an echo.”
“There is no love that is not an echo.”
“The wars don't end when you sign peace treaties or when the years go by. They will echo on until I'm gone and all the widows and orphans are gone.”
“If you write about a process you're about to go through, market research, and you go through it, and it doesn't echo what you've written about, you've failed.”
“I'm trying to tell history with a capital H through histories with a small h. It moves people, because you know in your own personal relationships, your own story, there's an echo to a much larger reality.”
“Grime reminds me, if there is an echo, of sort of near enough like Liverpool in the very early Sixties. It's a lot of kids obsessed with music - obsessed with it.”