Zitat des Tages von Hailey Gates:
Some of us are lucky enough to choose what we wear, and some of us don't have that luxury, but we all are communicating something to the world around us by what we wear, no matter if it's sweatpants or a tuxedo.
It's wild, how many places of conflict that have fashion weeks. It's becoming some sort of marker for these countries that says, 'We are in conversation with the rest of the world.'
I think, in a lot of ways, we underestimate how much clothing plays a part in achieving our identities and in how we want the world to deal with us.
If you take the fashion out of it, clothing has a lot of information - about how we feel about ourselves, how we'd like to feel about ourselves, and what we'd like to be: If you show up to an interview in sweatpants and a T-shirt, I'm going to deal with you in a really different way.
Fashion weeks tend to be places of refuge for outsiders.
When I was young, I made all of my own clothes.
I was, like, a really embarrassing, precocious child.
I'm not a journalist. I have not gone to school for this.
Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.
The Internet seems to have killed American fashion in the sense that everybody has good style, but they also look vaguely the same.
Having long hair has allowed me to enter orthodox or religiously conservative situations with slightly more ease.
I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.
This idea of 'laicite' has been weaponized, in a way, to discriminate against people, and this idea of who gets to be French is really complicated and interesting.
In China, I had my body lit on fire. And in Russia, I took a bath in reindeer blood, which apparently had some kind of youth-enhancing elements.
It's really just my Hammurabi code of journalism ethics, that I don't want to ask someone to do something that I won't do myself.
I always struggle auditioning, actually, because I'm so obsessed with era-appropriate clothing.