Suzy Menkes Quotes

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• The way
 that people dress makes them part of an army, dressed in their own uniform,
 determined to do something
• I am thrilled to become International Vogue Editor at Condé Nast International, which has a real commitment to journalistic excellence, and to have the opportunity…
• My style has always been to choose the charming and quirky.
• The clothes most worn by people are the clothes least commented on by the press.
• There is something sad about clothes laid in a tomb of trunks.
• If fashion is for everyone, is it fashion? The answer goes far beyond the collections and relates to the speed of fast fashion. There is…
• Smartphones are so fabulous in so many ways that it seems daft to be nostalgic about the days when an image did not go round…
• In the mid-1990s, when I stopped having to run from the shows to the film developing lab and first saw digital images, I blessed technology…
• Nan Kempner wore one of the first Saint Laurent trouser suits to one of those fancy Madison Avenue restaurants and was denied access. She famously…
• I knew him, but never felt that I got really close to Saint Laurent. But who really did? Betty Catroux, maybe.
• We know that creative people have all sorts of demons.
• Clothes are like friends.
• My clothes are fabulous - colourful, fun and by some very special designers. They deserve a better life than being sleeping beauties in a bed…
• I am not a hoarder, but my wardrobe is the antithesis of fast fashion. I buy clothes - beautiful in looks and make - to…
• When I look at my clothes, I think of them as an expression of the joy and fun of fashion - with a bit of…
• I was taken to my first fashion show - Nina Ricci haute couture - in Paris by the White Russian princess, down on her luck,…
• I find some collections to be more vibrant than others, but the designers who last are those who are able to continue to be creative…
• Just as in life you always marry the same man, so I think you always buy the same clothes over time.
• One thing I learned is how much easier it is to write about clothes than it is to make them.
• I do believe fashion should work as hard as a woman does.

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