Simmel Fashion Quotes & Sayings

Fashion is the playing area for individuals that lack interior autonomy and need more support points, but who nonetheless feel the need to stand out, to be paid attention to and be considered apart from the rest Fashion elevates the insignificant by making it in the representative of a totality, the particular incarnation of a common spirit. Its function is to make possible the kind of social obedience which is at the same time individual differentiation It is the mixing of submission and the feeling of domination that is in action here. — Georg Simmel

Nineteen years are as ages to you when you are nineteen. When you are nineteen, there is no experience to tell you that all things have an end. This aching pain has no end. — Mary MacLane

God created Adam lord of all living creatures, but Eve spoiled it all. — Martin Luther

A lot of people live in a property that will one day be part of their pension, and that is true for me too. I have an investment I can sell with ease. — Anthea Turner

There was no one else left for me to look for, but the urge to keep looking was there. The desire to be found was stronger than ever. — Trish Marie Dawson

Judging from the ugly and repugnant things that are sometimes in vogue, it would seem as though fashion were desirous of exhibiting its power by getting us to adopt the most atrocious things for its sake alone. — Georg Simmel

He's a little bit dodgy in the same way that rats are a little bit covered in fur but he'll be there. — Neil Gaiman

I like to talk about food, ingredients, and how to adapt recipes. It's a dialogue. — Yotam Ottolenghi

Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as already happened, where obstacles dissolve under the weight of desire, and where reality has vanished entirely. — Iain Pears