Quotes About Trends

Growth in the Chinese automobile market has exceeded everyone's expectations.

Fashion Week is like Christmas.

How many superhero movies can we have? It seems like there are 19 a week. They're making money, though, and people are going to see them. So, I get it. I understand completely.

Once the stories end up getting farfetched and ridiculous, I think that's where superhero fatigue will really catch on.

I think it's a bit like saying a painter does a painting everyone loves and it's 40% blue paint, so from now on you have to paint paintings that are 40% blue. That's the film industry at its most blunt, which is why it's constantly bats and spiders and superheroes.

When I started, you had cochineal food colouring that would turn things pink, but you could never make it red. Now, red is no problem - and if you look at supermarket bakery sections since 'Bake Off' began, you can get everything.

Today, you can gain a bunch of followers doing a dance in a cute bikini, and suddenly, you're a superstar. Or you could just be a beautiful girl posting pictures of yourself and get discovered that way.

You still have Top 40 radio now, but it's 40 different stations. There aren't many hits that everybody knows, and there aren't many real superstars.

It irritates me to see people aping superstars.

If anything, the impact of digital technology is creating bigger brands and bigger superstars.

Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.

Supply and demand eventually rebalance. We've seen this again and again and again.

I feel like I was supposed to be born in the '90s. Everything from that era needs to come back.

Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out of fashion according to relevance or irrelevance.

Bands rise and surface in the British press so regularly that, for the most part, unless something really catches my ear, I feel like, 'Oh, if they're still around in two years, I'll see what they're up to.'

You're surfing with all this glamour, and a lot of people are talking about Gwyneth, JLo, and Cameron.

At the point that an idea approaches perfection, fashion and expectations surge ahead, leaving the innovator with considerable room to find further improvements.

Fashion and style is just that. Fashion and style. It's not brain surgery.

In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.

Without naming names, I definitely think that celebrities nowadays are really having better surgery. It's looking a lot more natural than ever which is really great.

No surprise here: Pop music is by far the most conservative art form there is.

I think it's good to have surprises in fashion because we always see the same things.

Nothing ever surprises me about the market.

If you step back and think about it, just a little over two years ago, in 2009, it was not surprising at all to see Chinese exports growing at a 30-plus percent clip.