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There are a bunch of different ways to look at the fashion industry. Is it shallow to work in fashion? Yes, it can be. But does fashion transform a woman who might feel like nothing and unimportant to glamorous and gorgeous? Yes, it does. Does it employ a huge sector of America? Yes, it does.

— Kelly Cutrone

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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.

— Ali Hewson

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.

— Stacy London

Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.

— Philip Treacy

Fashion really is women's liberation in a lot of ways. Look at how many women in this country are depressed about how they look and how they think they have to look! It's really sad. And it's not about money.

— Iris Apfel

I make 98% of my collection in New York City and am generating jobs, so fashion isn't just frivolous for me. I understand levity about it. I also understand the depth of it.

— Prabal Gurung

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

— Henry Fielding

I've always been interested in fashion, the clothes, but I'm not that familiar with the fashion industry; for me it just comes out of quite an innocent sense of style.

— Lenora Crichlow

Just because you work in the fashion industry, it doesn't mean you live your life in fashion.

— Phillip Lim

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

— Tadashi Shoji