1993

off the rack

bene

"I love to feel insecure. In a way, it makes you feel creative ... it's like life; it's not forever. That's why it's precious."

- Gucci Creative Director Alessandro Michele [born 1972]

Regency Dandy

 

Beau Brummell [1778-1840] eliminated the powdered wig.

always look on the bright side

"It'll all work out in the end. If it hasn't worked out, it's not the end."
- Betsey Johnson

on history

"I'm not interested in my own past. Perhaps today, maybe tomorrow."
- Karl Lagerfeld

transcendental

"Fashion is not about making you the person you are. It's about making you the person you want to be."
- Stephen Jones, Milliner, Thom Browne

crisis

"Mid-life is when you reach the top of the ladder only to find out your  ladder is against the wrong wall."
- Tom Ford

100 year old model

starchitects

"I'm not ashamed to call myself a redesigner."
- Tommy Hilfiger

"A lot of people look but don't see."
- Paul Smith

"The way I work, I feel that I'm doing movies."
- Ralph Lauren

"Fashion is a fairy tale, a fantasy, about metamorphosis. It's about playing the part that you want people to see."
- Marc Jacobs

"The wider world perceives fashion sometimes as frivolity that should be done away with in the face of social upheavals. The problems are enormous. The point is in fact that fashion is the armour to survive the reality of everyday life. I don't think you could do away with it. It'd be like doing away with civilization."
- Bill Cunningham, octogenarian New York Times photographer

scurrility

"I can smell the cheapness of your suit from here."
- Insult directed at Tim Gunn [born 1953] by someone who only wears $5000 suits.