“My bangs make me feel more intentional — they are a conscious decision about my appearance, made and acted upon by me, as opposed to the waiting-for-something-better-to-come-along hairdo I sported for two whole decades.”— Madeleine Aggeler, thecut.com
“Oribe was a modern-day hair artist and disruptor. He treated it like sculpture to mold and reshape.”— Jane Larkworthy, thecut.com
“In a section that asks why gender-neutral seems to always translate to 'boy' when it comes to fashion, several people surveyed explain feelings that might not surprise anyone who understands how misogyny (and transmisogyny) still impacts so much of our culture. The general vibe to the responses was…”— Condé Nast, teenvogue.com
“There is nothing more debated in the whole world than the styling in Love, Actually. Some people love it; some people hate (actually) it.”— Amelia Diamond, manrepeller.com
“Fair skin has been in favor for, what, the past hundreds of years. But, now the pendulum has swung back. Black is in fashion!”— Jordan Peele, Parker Dray, Rutherford Cravens, imdb.com
“They aren’t the stuff of off-duty errands. They’re special. They’re different. They’re noteworthy. Meanwhile, when I wear a turtleneck, it’s as unremarkable as burping after a swig of club soda.”— Harling Ross, manrepeller.com
“I’m inspired by everything, ‘90s witches, old dance costumes, androgyny, hyper femininity, fuckboy fashion.”— Lane Moore, milk.xyz
“We have ourselves a trend—and doesn't hurt that it's actually ridiculously comfortable, too.”— Allyson Payer, whowhatwear.com
“Fashion Nova's other edge? A co-sign from one of this year's biggest influencers of all — Cardi B herself.”— Claire Valentine, papermag.com
“If you were to ask me why the hell any of this matters, I’d start by telling you it probably doesn’t.”— Haley Nahman, manrepeller.com
“My taste in lipstick reminds me that I pretend to be far more gregarious and outgoing than I actually am; in reality I like staying home on Friday nights, and being invisible walking down the street.”— Helena Fitzgerald, thecut.com
“Do you prefer fashion victim or ensembly challenged?”— Amy Heckerling, Cher Horowitz, Alicia Silverstone, imdb.com
“Low-rise denim is so depraved it isn’t worth attacking: It knows what it did—it just doesn’t care.”— Diana Tourjée, broadly.vice.com
“The link between style and sexuality is both obvious and inextricable, not only in terms of the tension between what is revealed and what is not, but also because of how thoroughly these threads are woven into the tapestries of our identity: a merging of the physical (clothes, bodies) with the emoti…”— Harling Ross, manrepeller.com
“Ignoring the plus-size community is not only discriminatory, it’s financially unwise.”— Shammara Lawrence, teenvogue.com
“To look at the shirt is to feel one’s eye straining to take in something new, or at least newly reconfigured. Is this ugly? Dorky? Cool? Is it some sort of ironic stunt, a Mike Kelley–style art-school in-joke, or a sincere gesture?”— Naomi Fry, newyorker.com
“Working in fashion can make the recovery process even more challenging than it already is.”— Tyler McCall, fashionista.com
“Though designers pay some influencers to attend a show and gin up content for their website and social feeds, fashion week is simply not a good use of time for a lot of major influencers who command higher paychecks from non-fashion brands and whose followers don’t understand or care about fashion s…”— Amy Odell, businessoffashion.com