September 2011
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“Time brings all things to pass.”
– Aeschylus
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“The world is a mess. We all know it and talk about in our private lives....”
– Oprah
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“When you have confidence, when you feel loved by people, you can tell them the...”
– Carine Roitfeld
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"Is there anything that you envy about women?"
Their hold over men. (Laughs) Okay, their sexuality. I think it's their ultimate weapon. I think a woman's sexuality in any shape or form is a powerful thing. It's at least turned me straight once or twice.
~ Alexander McQueen
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I make my living in an industry that has very little patience for anyone. One day I may feel as though choices I’ve made in my career have been right, good and smart …other days I wonder, “Where did I go wrong?” It’s the nature of every life endeavor, really. But the fashion industry has a particular flair for making any slight feel as though it’s the worst thing that has ever happened and...
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“I hate people who over intellectualize. It bores me deeply.”
– Carine Roitfeld (via thufri)
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“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and...”
– Jack Kerouac (via kari-shma)
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“It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make...”
– Mark Twain
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"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind."
Words from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, tattooed on Alexander McQueen’s upper right arm.
For McQueen, love was the most exalted of human emotions. Once asked what makes his heart miss a beat, the designer responded without hesitation ‘Falling in love.’ Fashion provided McQueen with a conduit for the conceptual expression of love—both its agonies...
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“I like to take things further. Too often, stylists do things to please because...”
– Polly Allen Mellen, icon editor (via sashacharnin)
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"Can Fashion ever be Art?"
“I think my position has always been clear, though some would disagree. It could not by any means be argued that all fashion is art, nor all designers artists, but figures such as McQueen, Saint Laurent, and Balenciaga (among others) prove that occasionally there exist exceptional creative minds, groundbreaking artists, who just happen to have chosen clothing as their canvas. I feel...
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“No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to...”
– Christian Nevell Bovee
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“To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is...”
– Unknown
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Watchwingsonherheels:
Preview for Elizabeth Taylor spread in September issue of V Magazine styled by Carine Roitfeld and shot by Mario Testino
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“If we knew other’s secrets, what comfort we would find.”
– John Churton Collins
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“False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the...”
– Christian Nevell Bovee
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