“For a performer who has spent 25 years shocking audiences into submission, through her lyrics, actions and attire, Madonna’s latest stylistic reinvention — timed to the start of a new tour next month — is mostly shocking for not having teeth.”– On Madonna’s most recent style transformation. From New York Times.
“…perhaps, the most cynical product placement exercise in history, is set to transform British teenage girls into preppy Manhattan Upper East-Siders.” On Gossip Girl crossing the pond, From Guardian.
“All mistakes are glorious because they lead to amazing creations. If you take risks you make big, beautiful mistakes. I couldn’t resurrect trousers with stirrups, though.”– Mila Jovovich, When asked what her biggest fashion faux pas is. From The Independent.
“It’s making me money and that’s wonderful. Shoot, if they want to use my words, that’s fine. Just pay me—I don’t want to be a struggling designer forever. I’m doing a project with Tresemme called Fierce Hair, and I just wrote a book about the millions of ways to be fierce. It has tons of celebrity quotes—Heidi Klum, Victoria Beckham, Vanessa Williams, and Whoopi Goldberg; Tim Gunn wrote the acknowledgment for me. It’s written completely how I talk. After every sentence, it’ll be like, “Lady, what are you doing?”" — Christian Siriano, On his “fierce” catchphrase. From Details.
“Most of my work is for American Vogue. I shoot for it almost every issue. This is a magazine that sells 1.2m copies and is probably read by 3m. Its reach is so wide you have to be quite easily understood. Whereas British Vogue’s aesthetics are different. You can’t give them work that’s too bland. It’s got to have a certain humor; a certain fun.” — Mario Testino, From The Independent UK.
“To put it short as Kanyely possible(don’t mean to speak in third person)…. Harper’s Bazaar came to my home, took pics, asked a lot of questions and then assumed the painting in my dining room was of me as an angel. This isn’t true and it bothered me greatly because people think I’m so so so cocky that I would have something like that. I’m sure it was an inside joke to everyone from the magazine in my home that day. People would come over my house after that and say, ” I heard about this pic of you as an angel!” I would have appreciated if Harper’s Bazaar would have put in some type of blurb to clear it up. I wanted people to see my home because I spent 2 years gutting it and was proud. I’m just a regular guy with cool stuff in his crib but instead I was made out to be Ben Stiller’s character in the movie ‘Dodgeball’ with the huge pic of him wrestling a bull in his office. Why didn’t they write that my house had no pics of me, no plaques or awards, just art.” — Kanye West, finally writing without all CAPS. From Kanye West Blog.
