Robin Givhan Quotes

#1. Fashion designers only occasionally tread outside the realm of clothes as pure commodity. When they do, the results are often a muddled, self-conscious message.

Robin Givhan

#2. I think of myself as the eyes and ears and voice of the reader.

Robin Givhan

#3. Unfunny people should be locked up, the key tossed into a smelter.

Patrick DeWitt

#4. Avoiding the appearance of queenly behavior is politically wise. But it does American culture no favors if a first lady tries so hard to be average that she winds up looking common,

Robin Givhan

#5. If you need somebody to dig up rocks eight hours a day underwater, call me.

Leigh Newman

#6. Clothes are incredibly symbolic.

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#7. There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop.

Herbert Marcuse

#8. 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.

Robin Givhan

#9. People are scared to make something that doesn't look like another film that made a lot of money. It means we get 'Four Weddings And A Funeral' made again and again.

Billy Boyd

#10. I have a rule that I don't review shows from photographs or from video. I certainly might go back and look at photographs and look at video to remind myself of something or for personal information. But I never review from that.

Robin Givhan

#11. Christianity also stands in opposition to intellectual, as well as physical, health. To doubt becomes sin. 'Faith means not wanting to know what it true' a description that strikes me as stunning and quite exact.

Robert Sheaffer

#12. The way the media cycle works, the way the news works, and the way people's attention span works, is that we only learn that people exist when there is crisis.

Edwidge Danticat

#13. Paradigm shifts aren't always obvious when you're in the middle of one. Danny Kennedy makes a compelling case for why solar power is the crucial energy technology of the 21st century.

Michael Brune

#14. In short, is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties, so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?

Frederic Bastiat

#15. The word 'superficial' comes with such negative connotations, suggesting that whatever it is applied to has no value. But the emotional pull of beauty for its own sake cannot be underestimated.

Robin Givhan

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

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#17. Because what the fashion industry loves, it woos - then swallows whole.

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#18. This morning I was a servant, tonight I'm a princess. How much more will change?

Victoria Aveyard

#19. Films go into vaults, art into museums, and music into halls of fame. Most fashion is worn for a few seasons and off-loaded into the recycling bin or, worse, some landfill.

Robin Givhan

#20. Designer Marc Jacobs ended his sixteen-year tenure at Louis Vuitton with a spring 2014 collection that celebrated fashion in its purest and least complicated form - as majestic, superficial beauty.

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#21. How much of fashion is fueled by insecurity - for better or worse?

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#22. Part of becoming a little bit older and having the opportunities that I have, you want to start giving back to people who have been influential and helped you along the way.

Grant Achatz

#23. No one should ever have to justify a fake moustache.

Tom Taylor

#24. In the '50s, women aspired to dress like their mothers - this polished, controlled, formal way of dressing. Then all of a sudden in the '60s, going into the '70s, they stopped dressing like their mothers.

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#25. Truth is Mormonism. God is the author of it.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#26. The proper condition of the human is not bovine placidity ... the highest degree of tension that can be creatively borne.

Brian Swimme

#27. The march of intellect is proceeding at quick time; and if its progress be not accompanied by a corresponding improvement in morals and religion, the faster it proceeds, with the more violence will you be hurried down the road to ruin.

Robert Southey

#28. I am a thorn in the side of designers.

Robin Givhan

#29. For me, one of the most interesting columns to write was about Dick Cheney when he represented the U.S. at a commemorative ceremony at Auschwitz.

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#30. I'm a very hyper person.

Gisele Bundchen