I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
Gloria SteinemRead
Fashion in the past meant conforming and losing oneself. Fashion in the present means being individual and finding oneself.
Interpretation
The quote contrasts the perception of fashion from a conformist viewpoint in the past to an individualistic approach in the present.
Gloria Steinem highlights the evolution of fashion from a medium that dictated strict norms and expectations, causing individuals to lose their identity in conformity, to a contemporary perspective where fashion celebrates uniqueness and self-expression. This transformation reflects broader societal changes that emphasize personal identity and individuality over collective conformity.
In practice
In a fashion seminar discussing personal branding.
I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?
Age brings a freedom. When you're young, you're much more subject to the idea of what feminine is or how you should look or how you should behave.
All those chemicals that create empathy only work when you are in a room together.
Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Obviously, there is much similarity among the challenges of transgender people and all women - from health care to harassment to discrimination in the workplace.
The dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress.
Never, ever, ever wear anything you are uncomfortable in. Because that is what you'll project: 'I look like a fool.'
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.'
They said pret-a-porter will kill your name, and it saved me
Fashion changes, Style remains
Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.
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