“We dress for the jobs we want, forgetting that most salaries are tailored to afford dressing for the jobs we have.”— Gayatri Jayaraman, buzzfeed.com
“I never kept up with the fashions. I believed in wearing what I thought looked good on me.”— Bettie Page, books.google.com
“I advocate understatement. Search for subtlety, dare to pass as someone reserved, refuse the stereotypes of sexiness. That way, you will spread fever only where it deserves to be.”— Jean Touitou, theguardian.com
“Whatever style you have, the main point is: How do you measure restraint?”— Jean Touitou, amazon.com
“A basic, high-end T-shirt costs about $7.50 to make, but sells for about $50. It was like, Holy shit, there’s a real discrepancy there.”— Michael Preysman, businessoffashion.com
“I don't want to see fashion industry people. I'm looking for average, banal people.”— Jean Touitou, elle.com
“Why do people only show parts of the female body overdetermined to trigger men’s sexual desire? You don’t need to show your boobs to be sexy.’”— Jean Touitou, newyorker.com
“I must dress in costly materials. The people scrutinize every article that I wear with critical curiosity. The very fact of having grown up in the West, subjects me to more searching observation. To keep up appearances, I must have money -- more than Mr. Lincoln can spare for me. He is too honest to…”— Mary Todd Lincoln, amazon.com
“Society’s obsession with the way women look is less about beauty than about obedience to a punishing external standard — and power. When women compete to ‘stay young,’ we collude in our own disempowerment. When we rank other women by age, we reinforce ageism, sexism, lookism and patriarchy. What els…”— Ashton Applewhite, nytimes.com
“One thing we can all agree on, though? Aging is harder for women. We bear the brunt of the equation of beauty with youth and youth with power — the double-whammy of ageism and sexism. How do we cope? We splurge on anti-aging products. We fudge or lie about our age. We diet, we exercise, we get plump…”— Ashton Applewhite, nytimes.com
“A janitor or a chancellor deserves the same treatment. Never try to figure out who they are by what they’re wearing.”— Michael Tan, opinion.inquirer.net
“Exposing young people to normative and unrealistic images of bodies leads to a sense of self-depreciation and poor self-esteem that can impact health-related behavior.”— Marisol Touraine, wwd.com
“I feel more and more that the most beautiful people are the ones who are comfortable with themselves.”— Alber Elbaz, independent.co.uk
“white women get so hurt when non white women talk about european standards of beauty and realize that white women aren’t the epitome of beauty and then they go ‘wow so much for women supporting women’ like why should i support standards that made me feel ugly for the majority of my life? why should…”— medusabraids, medusabraids.tumblr.com
“Fashion models feign ignorance of the camera lens in order to signal that we are not their interlocutors, but rather voyeurs whose desires are roused only to be rechanneled toward the items for sale.”— Rhonda Garelick, thecut.com
“Like Cooper and James Dean — and let’s throw Beckett in there, too, with the beautiful hair and the minimalist outfits — Mr. Shepard had something in short supply in this time of public figures crying out for likes. And that something was coolness, a mode of presentation and expression that may have…”— Jim Windolf, nytimes.com
“You have responsibilities at eighteen that you didn’t have before, but you still feel like a little kid.”— Elle Fanning, vogue.com