For me, style is about quality, integrity and timelessness. It is free of trends but always feels fresh and new.
Ralph LaurenRead
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.
Interpretation
Fashion transcends age and emphasizes personal taste and lifestyle.
Ralph Lauren's quote suggests that fashion should not be restricted by age but should instead reflect an individual's taste and lifestyle. It promotes the idea that anyone, regardless of their age, can express themselves through their clothing choices, highlighting the importance of personal style over societal norms.
In practice
In a fashion magazine article discussing ageless style.
For me, style is about quality, integrity and timelessness. It is free of trends but always feels fresh and new.
Fashion is transient, trends come and go. I believe in style, not fashion.
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.
When I first started designing, all women were dressed like men, and I said, 'Hey, guys, let's be women, put the two together - it's not either/or. Let's celebrate our bodies. Our bodies are different.'
Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes.
Patrick Demarchelier was the one who got me my first Vogue cover. It was French Vogue - I think in β87 or β88. I think I was the first black model to be on the cover of French Vogue, which was shocking to me because when I asked them about it, they were like, "Oh, no. Weβve never had that before."
I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.
Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself.
In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room - no other woman existed.
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