“I still don't know what fashion really is, and maybe that's the point. Maybe what fashion is right now — and what it was before — matter less than what it can be, and we need to be paying attention to the people who are defining that.”— Amanda Richards, instyle.com
“Working in fashion can make the recovery process even more challenging than it already is.”— Tyler McCall, fashionista.com
“High quality clothes are made of natural fibers, like cottons, silk, wool, linen and leather, but not the yarn medleys we see today such as polyesters, stretch, nylon and other filler fabrics. Just as the food industry introduced additives to keep food unnaturally fresh, so did the fashion industry…”— Don-Alvin Adegeest, fashionunited.uk
“The evolution of manufacturing and consumption has resulted in the intake of “400 percent more clothing today than we did 30 years ago.”— TFL, thefashionlaw.com
“Fast fashion is there for a reason: people want beautiful products in their price range. But we have to understand that cheap fashion is where other people end up paying for your stuff — the people who make the products and are paid less than what’s right.”— Reese Fernandez-Ruiz, medium.com
“Victoria's Secret needs to stop hiding behind dazzle and dated '70s concepts such as 'Angels' and the 'Fantasy Bra,' and start having a real conversation with women.”— Jeetendr Sehdev, businessinsider.com
“We are being manipulated every single day by an industry that rakes in billions while we stand crying over our bathroom scales.”— Megan Jayne Crabbe, amazon.com
“At some point in recent years, the same advertisers that shoved women into darkened corners of shame for not being pretty enough, not being thin enough, not having light enough skin and straight enough hair re-emerged under a sparkly, vamp-red, feminist banner.”— Bree Rody-Mantha, thefinancialdiet.com
“What’s really misleading about neoliberal analysis of globalized capitalism is the idea everything works out because conditions for many are gradually improving. For any criticism you have of exploitation and imperialism, they have a chart showing gradual improvement in some communities. Without mor…”— comcastkills, comcastkills.tumblr.com
“Makeup is an oppressive tool that seeks to hide us women, to belittle us and force us to compete with one another.”— Carolyn A. García, afropunk.com