For me, style is about quality, integrity and timelessness. It is free of trends but always feels fresh and new.
Ralph LaurenRead
Fashion is transient, trends come and go. I believe in style, not fashion.
Interpretation
Fashion constantly changes, but true style endures over time.
In this quote, Ralph Lauren emphasizes the difference between fleeting fashion trends and lasting personal style. While fashion can be influenced by seasons and popular culture, style represents an individual's unique identity and taste, which remains constant despite the changing landscape of trends.
In practice
During a fashion seminar to discuss the importance of personal branding.
For me, style is about quality, integrity and timelessness. It is free of trends but always feels fresh and new.
It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's not about age. It's about taste, and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything.
We all get report cards in many different ways, but the real excitement of what you're doing is in the doing of it. It's not what you're gonna get in the end - it's not the final curtain - it's really in the doing it, and loving what you're doing.
My philosophy has always been that I can sell chinos and T-shirts and $5,000 gowns - they just have to be the best of what they are.
We all have to fight to maintain our unique style and taste in a world that would have us conform.
I want my clothes, my stores, everything I design to have that feeling of being natural and easy. And that takes effort, but you try not to have it show.
Don't write about Man; write about a man.
I suppose when you do it correctly, a good introduction and a good outro makes the song feel like it's coming out of something and then evolving into something.
I don't think I handle the notes much differently from other pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, there is where the artistry lies!!
Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.
The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock'n'roll band.
As the centuries unfold, millions of artists will live on the moon and paint the moon and Mars as we go out into the universe.
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