“Visiting us is like visiting a cultural hub; it’s not simply a place for purchasing.”
Rough trade co-president Stephen Godfroy in The Guardian’s story on the opening of Rough Trade Records in New York
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“If you start, you have to keep re-doing it. What a waste of money! I’d rather go to the theatre.”
Daphne Selfe on Botox, via The Women’s Room
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I feel the same way about style that I do about beauty: I want to be myself. I don’t care what’s in style or not, I’m not a fashionista — I’m a person with style, who wants to keep her style. It’s important to feel like yourself.”
Franca Sozzani, Into The Gloss
“Every Ghanaian woman of my mother’s generation collected hundreds of these fabrics. My mother literally had a room packed with these cloths. When I was 16, I decided I wanted to experiment and made an outfit from them. She came back, saw that I had cut into the cloth, and she lost her mind.”
Ozwald Boateng, Business of Fashion
A great article by Rebecca May Johnson on the Dutch fabric company Vlisco
