Something I always look for in an outfit is to have a standout piece.
Coco RochaRead
If you are a new, upcoming designer, you've got to think of new, cool ways to make the industry look at you. Don't just get stuck in a rut, show your clothes, and be like, 'You should like this.'
Interpretation
Innovative designers must find unique ways to stand out in the fashion industry instead of conforming to norms.
Coco Rocha's quote emphasizes the importance of creativity and originality for new designers in the competitive fashion industry. Rather than relying on traditional methods and expecting admiration for their designs, upcoming designers should actively seek innovative and captivating ways to showcase their work, thereby capturing the industry's attention and breaking free from conventional expectations.
In practice
A keynote speech at a designer conference to inspire young talents.
Something I always look for in an outfit is to have a standout piece.
My wedding dress is a piece of art that I'll treasure forever. It was designed and created by Zac Posen. I gave him only the tiniest bit of direction when he started, and the end product was more beautiful than anything I could have imagined.
Models are supposed to be a muse to you. Why is a muse always the same body type, the same look? It's boring.
Usually, a model gets two to three seasons, or a year and a half, and that's it - you're done. For me, it will be 10 years.
I think, as long as you're secure with yourself and happy with yourself, it really doesn't matter what the world around you thinks.
When I started, I knew nothing about fashion. I remember, my first day going to my agency, I was wearing these huge bell-bottoms - they were patchwork corduroy and denim, which, at the time, I thought were amazing. My agent told me, 'You have a casting with Prada - you have to burn those jeans.'
Through art alone are we able to emerge from ourselves, to know what another person sees of a universe which is not the same as our own and of which, without art, the landscapes would remain as unknown to us as those that may exist on the moon.
The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
I was always writing for myself. I wrote what I needed to write and hear - that's what makes it powerful.
THE POET A moody child and wildly wise Pursued the game with joyful eyes, Which chose, like meteors, their way, And rived the dark with private ray: They overleapt the horizon's edge, Searched with Apollo's privilege; Through man, and woman, and sea, and star, Saw the dance of nature forward far; Through worlds, and races, and terms, and times, Saw musical order, and pairing rhymes. Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below, Which always find us young, And always keep us so.
It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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