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Personally, of course it's exasperating when people think you're just swanning around in Europe, going to the occasional fashion show and then being glamorous at a party.

— Hamish Bowles

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

People get very trapped where they are. When they hear 'fashion' they get intimidated, particularly at the upper end because it's so elitist.

— Vera Wang

Some may think fashion is frivolous, but the way I see it, when you dress well, you add beauty to the world. And there's nothing wrong with that, right?

— Laura Harring

Everyone thinks the fashion business is so glamorous. It's completely the opposite.

— Tadashi Shoji

If you took some of the behavior that you see in the fashion world and put it anywhere else, it would just be embarrassing.

— Alice Temperley

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.

— Douglas Coupland

People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.

— Ja Rule

Fashion is always seen as somewhat frivolous and self-indulgent. And I think people on the inside maybe don't see or understand how exciting and diverse a business it is.

— Imran Amed

Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there's a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a lot of fitted suits, elegant cuts; I think it's cool to mash up a lot of different looks.

— Wyclef Jean

I've always summed up my definition of fashion as the way that people present themselves on the public stage.

— Robin Givhan

✗Opposing Perspectives

I've had a lot of glamour come my way in the last 10 years - you know, movie stars and mansions and red carpets and trips to Europe and crazy stuff I never would have imagined - and I look at them as if I'm the bartender in the corner of the room. They've never gone into my psyche. I look at them with distance, and wonder.

— Andre Dubus III