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“Are not couturiers the poets who, from year to year, from strophe to strophe, write the anthem of the feminine body?”
- Roland Barthes
“You don’t have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won’t hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn’t necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word.”
- Elizabeth Bibesco
“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.”
- René König
“Fashion is only the attempt to realise art in living forms and social intercourse.”
- Sir Francis Bacon
“The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.”
- Virginia Woolf
“Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.”
- Quentin Bell
“Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today.”
- Mary Quant