It's a fine line between commenting on social events and exploiting them in a commercial endeavor. This is the tension with which the fashion industry struggles - unfairly.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.
Fashion is treated too much as news rather than what it is, what it does and how it performs.
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 frivolous. It is a part of being alive today.
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.
It is extremely important to me that the social and environmental issues associated with the production of fashion clothing are addressed.
I think sometimes the fashion world isn't even about clothes anymore; it's about this 'in' crowd, and I'm not into that.
I think the fashion industry has gotten to a place where it is embarrassing.
People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes.
Fashion is an industry of action, not discussion.