it is possible to study fashion the way one can study a work of art, so that it reflects significantly upon the issues and conflicts of its own day.

It frequently happens that when the dominant culture loses a vision or actively suppresses it, this lost knowledge arises again among those excluded from that culture.

I fear, as any daughter would, losing myself back into the mother.

Secretly, we wish anyone we love will think exactly the way we do.

a woman obsessed with her body is also obsessed with the limitations of her emotional life.

it is possible to study fashion the way one can study a work of art, so that it reflects significantly upon the issues and conflicts of its own day.

Where hunger is imposed by external circumstances, the act of starvation remains literal, a tragic biological event that does not serve metaphoric or symbolic purposes. It is only in a country where one is able to choose hunger that elective starvation may come to express cultural conflict or even social protest.