“My friend George and I were walking on the beach in Norfolk, and there were thousands of [razor-clam] shells. They were so beautiful, I thought I had to do something with them. So, we decided to make [a dress] out of them. . . . The shells had outlived their usefulness on the beach, so we put them to another use on a dress. Then Erin [O’Conner] came out and trashed the dress, so their usefulness was over once again. Kind of like fashion, really.”
![“My friend George and I were walking on the beach in Norfolk, and there were thousands of [razor-clam] shells. They were so beautiful, I thought I had to do something with them. So, we decided to make [a dress] out of them. . . . The shells had outlived their usefulness on the beach, so we put them…” quote by Alexander McQueen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/88b/alexander-mcqueen-3419_beach_my-friend-george-and-i-were-walking-on-t_3002079.jpg)
![“[The shells] do not have the meaning they once did, but, as Swann said in Remembrance of Things Past, "even when one is no longer attached to things, it's still something to have been attached to them." (22)” quote by Anne Fadiman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c38/anne-fadiman-7855_quote_the-shells-do-not-have-the-meaning-they_2218294.jpg)
