“An Irving Penn photo, an Ingmar Bergman movie, are timeless. It is about always being relevant, regardless of trends. It’s a search for universality—that’s the aim and that’s a huge one, but that’s the filter that we try to put everything through.”
Thoughtful sentiments from Acne’s Thomas Persson in Interview magazine
“I started putting girls in men’s clothes. Yves Saint Laurent had just produced the tuxedo, but who could afford Yves Saint Laurent? So I went to Moss Brothers, where they had a great second-hand department. It didn’t have to fit, just put a gold belt around it and then wear high heels.”
The inimitable Godmother of Styling, Caroline Baker on styling the 70s*, 10 Magazine
*It all sounds very French Vogue…
“I wanted to be everything, all at once. I wanted to be a baseball player, I wanted to be a basketball player, I wanted to be an actor, I wanted to be a dancer. And I think my whole life has been… actually, I wanted to be Batman!”
Ralph Lauren, Oprah
“In China [the 1960s] was the Cultural Revolution. You need to explain swinging London, Mary Quant, the Beatles and why these people made a difference. If you don’t explain, they’re just clothes.”
Angelica Cheung, editor of Vogue China on the new Chinese luxury market (and why Vogue China is so big you need to sit at a table to read it), The Guardian
