Bourgeois Quote by Donatella Versace Download Open image “During the eighties and nineties, people wanted to be chic, elegant, bourgeois.” — Donatella Versace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bourgeois Chic Eighties Elegant Nineties People Wanted
I just want to say one thing about the '70s. Enough with this purer, "It was a better time," business. Every time is about… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
There are many wonderful things about 80s trends. The clothes were emulating what was going on in society at the time, women were elbowing… — Dawn O'Porter Copy Share Image
Women of the 60s revolutionised fashion for us. They took the hem lines up so we could feel young, and free, and do things… — Dawn O'Porter Copy Share Image
A new breed of Americans born out of the social movements of the 60s and grown into a majority in the 70s holds a… — Daniel Yankelovich Copy Share Image
The '80s weren't perfect and people made some questionable fashion choices but in terms of music and movies, it was revolutionary and wonderful. — Shannon Purser Copy Share Image
“The late eighties was a good vintage. ID was not yet fashionable so a lot of people were doing it for the right reasons… — Leander Kahney Copy Share Image
The early '90s were an especially marvelous period for fashion, because it was the peak of glamour and there were no limits as to… — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
People forget that scenes and fashion trends changed very rapidly during the '80s. We went from glam rock to punk, to new romantic, to… — Paul Young Copy Share Image
Simplicity survives the changes of fashion. Women of chic are wearing now dresses they bought from me in 1936. Fit the century, forget the year. — Valentina Copy Share Image
In the South America of the forties and fifties, everyone was into beauty and glamour and fashion. — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
Fashion in the mid-'90s was too easy. Artistic culture was very earnest, so I was flamboyant and dangerous. I wanted to be seen as… — Roisin Murphy Copy Share Image
During the 1990s, luxury became something exclusive and elitist. I think fashion got lost. It forgot about craft and culture. — Jonathan Anderson Copy Share Image
I have to say, I grew up with fashion because my mother was a seamstress, and she had an atelier. She would cut the… — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine. — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
To define the era we live in is very difficult. How do we define it? We define it by music. — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
Some say the economy means that you have to persuade people to invest in clothes - to buy less things but more expensive things.… — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
I believe it is the responsibility and duty of those in high-profile positions to give a voice to people whose voices cannot be heard. — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
When I meet celebrities, I have to know what they are like and only then can I design. The clothes have to fit their… — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
I've learned how to appreciate what I have. And it's a lot. I'm very lucky. — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
I don't think about making sexy clothes. It's just my instinct to make them. — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
How do I keep young? Haven't you heard? I sleep every night in the deep freezer! — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
“Economists have a singular method of procedure. There are only two kinds of institutions for them, artificial and natural. The institutions of feudalism are artificial institutions, those of the bourgeoisie are natural institutions. In this, they resemble the theologians, who likewise establish two kinds of religion. Every religion which is not theirs is an invention of men, while their own… — Karl Marx Copy Share
“Like symbolism, decadence puts forth the idea that the function of literature is to evoke impressions and 'correspondences', rather than to realistically depict the world. ... the decadent aestheticized decay and took pleasure in perversity. In decadent literature, sickness is preferable to health, not only because sickness was regarded as more interesting, but because sickness was construed as subversive, as… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share
The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know… — Karl Radek Copy Share Image
With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois and Lee… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with leisure were now transposed to the sphere of work, while tasks lacking in any financial reward were drained of all significance and left to the haphazard attentions of decadent dilettantes. It now seemed as impossible that one could… — Alain de Botton Copy Share
Where there is no danger of overt action there is rarely any interference with freedom. That is why there has so often been amazing freedom of opinion within an aristocratic class which at the same time sanctioned the ruthless suppression of heterodox opinion among the common people. When the Inquisition was operating most effectively against the bourgeois who had lapsed… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share
Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Avant-garde theatre, with its distrust of the individual (that bourgeois invention), tends to go beyond [character] and the psychological approach in search of a… — Patrice Pavis Copy Share Image
One's existence should be in two parts: one should live like a bourgeois and think like a demigod. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I think of myself as being a bit of a wimp deep down - a bourgeois wimp - and I'm fighting that. I think… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
We can say farewell to 10 years of bourgeois rule... now we have the opportunity to change Denmark. — Helle Thorning-Schmidt Copy Share Image