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If fashion has a political significance, it is probably culturally, as a camouflage.

Fashion is not interesting unless it has some connection to something outside of that world. It's the same thing with any part of the arts: you can't just take pictures - you have to look at science, to listen to music; you have to be aware of the connections within the world. If you take something in an isolated box, it loses all significance.

Fashion can often be dictated. It's what people think we should do or wear. Style is totally personal.

When I think about fashion and elegance, I imagine a woman from the 1950s, on an airplane, with seamed stockings and a garment belt underneath, a skirt, high heels, and her hair that she's done the night before, perfectly done eyeliner, lipstick, gloves, perhaps, and all this just to sit on an airplane for a transcontinental flight.

I love the influence of surf culture on fashion in L.A.

Since I was a little girl, I have always been interested in make-up and fashion.

I used to think fashion was something unattainable and reserved only for people who look like models. But looking back, I've always made bold choices, possibly beginning with the silk jungle print jacket, orange shorts, and Nepalese cap I insisted on wearing every day when I was ten.

I think a lot of people see fashion as a feminine art form and use that as an excuse to dismiss it. Highlighting it can be a way of affirming that women's interests are of value.

Fashion blogs are great, but I also take inspiration from movies, nature, everyday objects.

When I was a little girl, I was a real, drippy bookworm. But when I went into fashion, I stopped reading.

In 1995, I was 27, and I completely got caught up in Blur and Oasis and the fashion of the time.

I am quite comfortable doing a fashion shoot in a bikini. It's no big deal. But on the film's set, with a hundred people milling around, I got nervous.

Fashion is much more open minded to duskier skin, but I do not think they are prejudiced in any way to fair skin either.

Letting ourselves down in some fashion is such an integral part of daily life that the paucity of literature on the subject is baffling.

I feel like my art is very eclectic. I have taken my favorite things - be that costume designing, fashion sense, music and video editing - and I threw them all into one big clump. And that's what I do.

You can't just come from Kansas, go into fashion and be all naive. The fashion world is very different to where I'm from.

I try to be extra creative with the colors and textures I wear during fashion week. It's not for street style, though; I just like dressing sometimes.

Fashion faux pas should be celebrated. I enjoy them because it means we're not all clones.

I love, love, love fashion so much. That's why I became a model in the first place.

I have always drawn strength from my late mother's life. When Eunice Johnson set up the first major fashion show for African-American audiences more than 50 years ago, she did so at a time when black Americans, especially black women, were still fighting for a seat at the table - any table.

It is a sign of my mother's determination, confidence, and creativity that more than 50 years after launching the renowned Ebony Fashion Fair show, her timeless sense of style endures as a guidepost for today's fashion-loving women.