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In general, fashion is decorative, it's protective, it acknowledges that the world does involve conflict, and you might be attacked by assumptions, presumptions, and attitudes.

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

Fashion is a social agreement. the result of a consensus of a large group of people.

Fashion is an expression of a time, of a place, of history. It's putting things into context.

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 allows you to be whoever you want to be.

Fashion is what people tell you to wear. Style is what comes from your own inner thing.

Fashion is just an interpretation of the culture around us.

Fashion is about what you look like, which translates to what you would like to be like.

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.