Brooklyn Quote by Shakira

“The new fashions sold in department stores had thrown skilled American seamstresses out of work, you see. They’d been displaced by immigrant girls doing…

— Mary Doria Russell

I have the New York Daily News to thank for the jeans controversy.

— Calvin Klein

I believe clothing tell a story.

— Rachel Roy

I have a responsibility to the people who work for me, the manufacturers I work with. There is no point to clothes that don't…

— Dries van Noten

You can't staple me to the Brooklyn hipster. I don't buy skinny jeans and $50 T-shirts. I wear the same clothes I've always worn,…

— Brian Fallon

“Corporate America wasn’t too sympathetic to my plight: there is no overdraft protection plan that covers I was extremely manic and purchased $800 worth…

— Zack McDermott

For my first big Fashion Week event, the factory wouldn't give me my clothes because I didn't have the $25,000 it cost to make them.

— Prabal Gurung

I don't care if New York avoided bankruptcy by substituting tourism for the garment business.

— Fran Lebowitz

Who said that clothes make a statement? What an understatement that was. Clothes never shut up.

— Susan Brownmiller

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

— Henry David Thoreau

I'd like to believe that the women who wear my clothes are not dressing for other people, that they're wearing what they like and…

— Marc Jacobs

“According to NYPD figures, a contract killing could be had in Brooklyn for a mere $500. More often than not, though, people in New…

— Bill Fitzhugh