"Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt."

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Source : 1954 A Shocking Life, ch.9.

Elsa Schiaparelli

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“Writers aren't born properly labeled so it is hard to know one when one appears.”
“Honest to God, all my life I have had such a fear of spiders. In fact, I use to have a reoccurring dream about one. Very clearly, it was black with a red head. It would sit up in the corner of the bedroom and when it started getting closer, I would wake up in a panic.”
“We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also.”
“The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which hs to be acquired with difficulty.”
“As frustrating as my time in grad school felt, it also helped tremendously because it challenged me to figure out what it was I thought I wanted.”
“Since I didn't spend a great amount of time on writing the lyrics, some people would argue that they're too vague or simplistic, but I think it's kind of good. I wouldn't say they're all stream of consciousness, but they're not necessarily overwrought.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“When you write songs, you have to like them yourself first, but then you have to make everyone else like them, because you can force them to play it, but you can't force them to like it.”
“The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.”

Source : "Putting some muscle into the much" by Paula Span, www.washingtonpost.com. May 28, 1995.

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