The Fashion Fund celebrates the real passion that underlies the fashion business, not the frothy world of glamour and celebrity that so often surrounds it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Everyone thinks the fashion business is so glamorous. It's completely the opposite.
Fashion is an industry to make money. It plays into human psychology. We want to belong, we want to be loved. I'm not trying to demonize the fashion industry - I love the fashion industry - but style is about taking the control out of the industry's hand and having you decide what works for you.
Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.
A lot of self-importance goes on in the fashion industry. I'm not like that.
The most fascinating part is how fashion just attracts all these social rejects, if you will, from around the world, encourages individuality. They're the people who make the industry tick.
Fashion is not an investment. If you wear a dress and don't get many compliments, you won't wear it again. It's not like buying bonds.
Being considered a fashion star is wonderful. It's definitely a bonus thing.
Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today.
'Vogue' has the power to make and break - whether it's fashion trends, designers, models, and yes, even industry practices.
'Fashion Star' has been an incredible platform to show America the amount of work and discussion that goes into each garment you see in a store.