Fashion sayings by poets and philosophers
Poetry and Fashion Sayings
Franco Lacosta interviews Giannina Braschi on the intersection between fashion and poetry.
Franco Lacosta (fashion designer and creative director of the ABC hit television series The Bachelorette) interviews the iconic Puerto Rican poet Giannina Braschi about her life-long love of fashion. Here is an excerpt on their bubbling conversation about the intersection of fashion and poetry…
Franco: As a teenager in San Juan, you were a tennis champion and a fashion model on the “Ten Best Dressed” list. If there were a list the “Best Dressed Authors,” you would certainly top that list too. This season, I was delighted to see you pairing Christian Dior and Franco Lacosta. What is it about design that excites you?
Giannina: Fashion is a curtain that unveils the frenzy of poetry. 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.
Franco: Whenever I work with models, I’m always looking for their light and buoyancy. Maybe that is the dynamic duo that fashion and poetry have in common.
Giannina: Yes, plus fluidity. Poetry and fashion hinge on those transitions between impermanence and permanence. 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 is a curtain that unveils the frenzy of poetry. 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
Poets on Fashion
- “A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months.” Wilde
- “Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art whose other half is the eternal and the immutable.” Baudelaire
“Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world’s view of us.” Woolf - Fashion is a curtain that unveils the frenzy of poetry. Braschi
- “The longer you wear pearls, the realer they become.” Colette
Fashion Sayings by Philosophers
“Fashion is the pure speculative stage in the order of signs. It has no goal, and it is the first to achieve this state of pure sign, which is also the state of the death of the sign.” Baudrillard
· Roland Barthes
“La Mode est un langage, mais c’est un langage sans grammaire ; c’est un lexique de signes qui se redistribuent sans cesse.”
· Jean Baudrillard
“La mode est le stade spéculatif pur dans l’ordre des signes. Elle n’a plus de but, et c’est la première à atteindre cet état de signe pur, qui est aussi l’état de mort du signe.”
· Thomas Carlyle
“Society is founded upon Cloth; and the first spiritual want of man is Decoration.”
· Immanuel Kant
“Es ist eine Sache des Geschmacks, der Mode zu folgen; es ist aber eine Sache der Eitelkeit (Begierde zu glänzen), der Mode nachzustreben, oder gar an ihrer Spitze stehen zu wollen.”
· Georg Simmel
“Die Mode ist Nachahmung eines gegebenen Musters und genügt so dem Bedürfnis nach sozialer Anpassung, sie führt den Einzelnen auf die Bahn, die Alle gehen.”
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