"Although people often equate them, glamour is not……" — Virginia Postrel
"Although people often equate them, glamour is not the same as beauty, stylishness, luxury, celebrity, or sex appeal. It is not limited to fashion or film; nor is it intrinsically feminine. It is not a collection of aesthetic markers - a style, as fashion and design use the word."
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Virginia Postrel
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80 Quotes by Virginia Postrel
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Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.
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Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a…
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Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs…
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The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating…
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Glamour doesn’t just happen, people don’t wake up in the morning glamorous.
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European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities…
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At the simplest level, only people who know they do not know everything will be curious enough to find things…
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Dialysis does not make patients well. It simply postpones their deaths.
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Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is…
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The intimate contest for self-command never ends, and lifetime happiness requires finding the right balance between present impulses and future…
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We know we need bosses and deadlines to help us get work done. But sometimes we can also use an…
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As a general rule, durable-goods production tends to be the most volatile sector of the economy. Since people usually have…
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At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics…
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A…
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I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition…
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I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about…
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Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic…
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A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.
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