The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When you live in Paris, and fashion is such a point of pride for the French, it's always around and you're very much exposed to it from an early age. It was always something I knew about and really liked.
I think London, New York, Paris, Milan, any big city has its own fashion. I don't know why they make such a big thing of Paris. I think maybe it comes from French New Wave films portraying the French girl as very feminine.
The fashion world is much more ephemeral than the film industry and moves at a faster pace, and it's got even more frenetic since the Nineties; more paparazzi hanging about and it seems to me there are even more fashion magazines.
Paris is one of my favorite cities, but Paris during Fashion Week is everything!
People see fashion as superficial and shallow, but it's actually not. As an industry, it can really change how things happen and change trade for countries that really need it.
Some people think fashion is frivolous but it's not... it's just that some ideas come and go quickly, and that's the nature of the language of fashion.
Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs.
Fashion is not frivolous. It is a part of being alive today.
A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives.
Paris is paramount for fashion, always was - always will be.