Inside Vogue Quotes

“I feel like the industry hasn’t caught up to the fact that people don’t want to see clothes only in cool fashion pictures but in a context. This attitude is also completely mad when houses lend to street-style girls to be snapped by hordes of Japanese photographers as a way of marketing. Yet they won’t, for instance, want to lend something to be worn by a head of pathology in a hospital. How are we meant to inspire young girls…when worlds they admire, like high fashion, don’t encourage the notion that you can mix being a fashion plate with working in other fields?”
― Alexandra Shulman, Inside Vogue: A Diary Of My 100th Year

“My mum always says there is no such thing as a new idea, and if that’s true (which I’m not sure it is), fashion is certainly the best exemplar. Everything comes round and round in terms of style of clothes and photography but, still, in each iteration they do have something different.”
― Alexandra Shulman, Inside Vogue: A Diary Of My 100th Year

“My mother always said you can have only two out of three - work, family, and social life.”
― Alexandra Shulman, Inside Vogue: A Diary Of My 100th Year

“Commercially [America has] had the last word, and over the past 40 years the American market has been the primary powerhouse of the [fashion] industry - giant malls, massive department-store chains, numerous large cities. It’s changing now, though: China and other Far Eastern countries are becoming the leading players. No where is it clearer that we are in the last days of the American Empire than in the fashion industry. Fabrics and designs are being tailored to the requirements of the Eastern market. The big brands are spending fortunes expanding there, and although many Middle Eastern women are hidden behind burqas, their wardrobes contain some of the most ravishing Western fashion.”
― Alexandra Shulman, Inside Vogue: A Diary Of My 100th Year

“New York collections are often a commercial version of what Europe provided for the previous season. It’s what America does so well: the designers turn someone else’s idea into something that makes money.”
― Alexandra Shulman, Inside Vogue: A Diary Of My 100th Year