Public Republic

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The only rule is don’t be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.
Paris Hilton

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
Anthony Burgess


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Elegance is a question of personality, more than one’s clothing.
Jean-Paul Gaultier

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.
Elsa Schiaparelli

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A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
Edith Head

I don’t design clothes. I design dreams.
Ralph Lauren

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Fashion is what you adopt when you don’t know who you are.
Quentin Crisp

There has been a change in men’s attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion; they’re not afraid of it.
Calvin Klein

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The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.
Dave Barry

A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde

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Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.
George Santayana

Above all, remember that the most important thing you can take anywhere is not a Gucci bag or French-cut jeans; it’s an open mind.
Gail Rubin Bereny

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The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.
Dave Barry

Above all, remember that the most important thing you can take anywhere is not a Gucci bag or French-cut jeans; it’s an open mind.
Gail Rubin Bereny

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