“I wear black because I’m comfortable in it. But then in the summertime when it’s hot I’m comfortable in light blue.”
Johnny Cash
more infosource: Larry King Live, CNN, November 26, 2002.
category: black, blue, color, fashion, musician, summer
medium: Interview
“Even on Central Avenue, not the quietest dressed street in the world, he looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.”
Raymond Chandler
more infosource: Farewell, My Lady, First Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Edition (New York: Random House, 1992), 4.
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category: conspicuous, fashion, visible
medium: Fiction
via: Maureen Dowd“She is forty-five and austerely handsome, with large eyes the color of coal and a wide, upturned mouth that often gives her a wry expression. She wears sneakers, black trousers, a wool cardigan with elbow patches—the indifferent wardrobe of someone who devotes her energy to looking rather than to being seen.”
Emily Eakin
more infosource: “Celluloid Hero: Tacita Dean’s exhilirating homage to film,” by Emily Eakin, New Yorker, October 31, 2011, 54.
category: artist, beauty, clothing, fashion, Tacita Dean
medium: Magazine profile
“I love dresses, especially good vintage from the early ’70s–Yves Saint Laurent and Ossie Clark, and anything in silk, printed crepe, or chiffon. I love polka dots, peplums, cap sleeves, tea lengths, cloth-covered buttons, high heels, and wide belts. Everything I buy has to have a waist that fits; that’s the only design element about which I’m completely inflexible.”
Joanna Newsom
more infosource: “Joanna Newsom,” interviewed by Roy Harper, BOMB magazine, Issue 116, Summer 2011.
category: design, dress, fashion, musician, style
medium: Interview
“I’m not somebody who likes to possess. I’m not the person who has six hundred suits. I want to have two suits. Actually, I want to have one suit, and I replace it.”
Tomas Maier
more infosource: “Just Have Less: Bottega Veneta’s Tomas Maier,” by John Colapinto, The New Yorker, January 3, 2011, 34.
category: clothes, fashion, materialism, possession, stuff, suit
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“I should be used to the way Americans dress when traveling, yet still it manages to amaze me. It’s as if the person next to you had been washing shoe polish off a pig, then suddenly threw down his sponge, saying, ‘Fuck this. I’m going to Los Angeles.'”
David Sedaris
more infosource: “Standing By,” The New Yorker, August 9, 2010, 33–35.
category: America, clothes, fashion, travel
medium: nonfiction
“Pink is the navy blue of India.”
Diana Vreeland
more infosource: D. V. (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 1997), paperback edition, 106.
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category: blue, color, fashion, India, pink
medium: autobiography
“People wouldn’t know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the hands of so many seamstresses working on them.”
Patti Smith
more infosource: “A Rare Spirit, a Rarer Eye,” Ruth La Ferla, The New York Times, March 19, 2010.
category: dress, fashion, secret
medium: newspaper profile
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