Top 5 Quotes on Fashion by Poet Giannina Braschi
Enjoy these Fashion and Poetry quotes that reveal the connections of both art forms to our collective moods.
#1 Fashion is a curtain that unveils the frenzy of poetry.
Giannina Braschi in a conversation with Designer Franco Lacosta
#2 Fashion offers us clues of the collective mood. Its frivolity is important because it makes light of what is heavy. Everything good in life has light or wants to become light.
Giannina Braschi Giannina Braschi in a conversation with Designer Franco Lacosta
#3 Poetry and fashion hinge on those transitions between impermanence and permanence.
Giannina Braschi in a conversation with Designer Franco Lacosta
4. I want poetry to be a fashion show–to have a taste of frivolity–savoir faire–a taste of time at its peak–Kenzo, Gigli and Gaultier. I’m more excited by Bergdorf ’s windows than the contemporary poetry I’ve read.
Fashion and Poetry Quotes from the Spanglish novel Yo-Yo Boing!
#5 Fashion and poetry require humor and taste. We are the makers of manners, and manners require a clear expression of style. We capture the mood of our time and the fluidity.
Fashion and Poetry Quotes by Giannina Braschi
“Braschi smuggles into a US imagination a sensibility created in and across a hemispheric Américan history, aesthetic, and culture. And she does so to create hard-hitting, no-holds-barred, mind-expanding story- worlds. She wakes us to the world in and across languages, ontologies, metafictional epistemologies…. Braschi’s magisterial corpus will at once build on a planetary literary past and anticipate a reader today and tomorrow. I look forward to seeing, too, how new generations of multi- and translanguaging Latinx authors and comic book creators will be inspired to shape radically experimental fictions. I look forward to seeing what materializes from Braschi’s invitation for us to look into and beyond dreams of the self and to open to the limitless possibilities for transforming tomorrow’s selves in the world.”
—Frederick Luis Aldama, Poets, Philosophers, Lovers: On the Writings of Giannina Braschi