My relationship with fashion has always been that each of us stars in our own movies and costumes ourselves to play the part we want. You take blouses and jeans and dresses, and you put them together, and they tell your story.
Marc JacobsRead
I love the entire ritual of getting dressed. When we do a fashion show, we try to send out a message; we couldn't do that without the hair and makeup. The whole is equal to the sum of its parts.
Interpretation
Fashion is a collaborative art form that combines various elements to create a cohesive message.
In this quote, Marc Jacobs emphasizes the importance of the entire process of getting dressed and preparing for a fashion show. He highlights that fashion, much like other forms of art, relies on various components—such as hair and makeup—to convey a powerful message, asserting that the collective effort is greater than the individual parts.
In practice
A motivational speech at a fashion school to inspire future designers.
My relationship with fashion has always been that each of us stars in our own movies and costumes ourselves to play the part we want. You take blouses and jeans and dresses, and you put them together, and they tell your story.
I love my life. I can't believe I work in New York and Paris. That I work for Louis Vuitton. That I work for Marc Jacobs. It seems really weird every time I say my full name - like, that's me, and every time I hear the receptionist say my name, it's still weird.
Life is a fashion show, the world is your runway.
Fashion isn't a necessity. It pulls at your heart. It's a whim. You don't need it. You want it.
Fashion is such a fairytale and it is such a fantasy. And it's about metamorphosis and sort of changing yourself and playing a part that you want people to see.
And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music.
Cartooning is preaching. And I think we have a right to do some preaching. I hate shallow humor. I hate shallow religious humor, I hate shallow sports humor, I hate shallowness of any kind.
In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
I don't live for the accolades. I'm more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.
A work can have in it a pent-up energy, an intense life of its own, independent of the subject it may represent.
The act of writing a song involves a degree of letting go of yourself, and that's very much being a child.
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