“I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes. I had one thousand and sixty.”
“A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months.”
“All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work.”
“A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.”
“About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.”
“When in doubt, wear red.”
“I don't do fashion, I am fashion.”
“They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.”
“A good model can advance fashion by ten years.”
“I don't design clothes. I design dreams.”
“A woman's dress should be like a barbed- wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.”
“Fashion is architecture. It is a matter of proportions.”
“The goal I seek is to have people refine their style through my clothing without having them become victims of fashion.”
“Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside.”
“I like fashion to go down to the street, but I can't accept that it should originate there.”
“In difficult times fashion is always outrageous.”
“Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of the future, and should never be static.”
“The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.”
“Fashion is more usually a gentle progression of revisited ideas.”
“Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.”
“I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch.”
“Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman's jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with.” | “Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.”
“Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.”
“The dress must follow the body of a woman, not the body following the shape of the dress.”
“Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.”
“Today, fashion is really about sensuality—how a woman feels on the inside. In the '80s women used suits with exaggerated shoulders and waists to make a strong impression. Women are now more comfortable with themselves and their bodies—they no longer feel the need to hide behind their clothes.”
“Respect is love in plain clothes.”
“Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.”
“The lamb began to follow the wolf in sheep’s clothing.”
“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.”
“She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on witha pitchfork.
“When his wife asked him to change clothes to meet the German Ambassador: If they want to see me, here I am. If they want to see my clothes, open my closet and show them my suits.”
“Clothes don’t make a man, but clothes have got many a man a good job.”
“Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear.”
“Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing."
“While clothes may not make the woman, they certainly have a strong effect on her self-confidence — which, I believe, does make the woman."
“The dress is a vase which the body follows. My clothes are like modules in which bodies move.”
“I wear my sort of clothes to save me the trouble of deciding which clothes to wear.”
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
“The expression a woman wears on her face is more important than the clothes she wears on her back.” |
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Tuesday, November 4, 2008
What Famous People Think of Fashion...
The History of Cupcakes...
The cupcake evolved in the United States in the 19th century, and it was revolutionary because of the amount of time it saved in the kitchen. There was a shift from weighing out ingredients when baking to measuring out ingredients. According to the Food Timeline Web, food historians have yet to pinpoint exactly where the name of the cupcake originated. There are two theories: one, the cakes were originall cooked in cups and two, the ingredients used to make the cupcakes were measured out by the cup.
In the beginning, cupcakes were sometimes called "number" cakes, because they were easy to remember by the measurements of ingredients it took to create them: One cup of butter, two cups of sugar, three cups of flour, four eggs, one cup of milk, and one spoonful of soda. Clearly, cupcakes today have expaned to a wide variety of ingredients, measurements, shapes, and decorations - but this was one of the first recipes for making what we know today as cupcakes.
Cupcakes were convenient because they cooked much quicker than larger cakes. When baking was down in hearth ovens, it would take a long time to bake a cake, and the final product would often be burned. Muffin tins, also called gem pans, were popular around the turn of the 20th century, so people started created cupcakes in tins.
Since their creation, cupcakes have become a pop culture trend in the culinary world. They have spawned dozens of bakeries devoted entirely to them. While chocolate and vanilla remain classic favorites, fancy flavors such as raspberry meringue and espresso fudge can be found on menus. There are cookbooks, blogs, and magazines specifically dedicated to cupcakes.