Quotes About Trends

The same kids listening to Papa Roach will listen to an Xzibit CD.

I met Iman and Jerry Hall and all those girls in the late Seventies right when I started working at the fashion shows in Paris as an assistant.

The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion.

It is always a pleasure to see what NYC, London, Paris and Milan have to offer.

I try out all the latest beauty products and participate in all the shows. It's pretty magical.

The Obama economy has led to the lowest labor force participation since 1978.

Fashion is a very particular world, as you know.

Global crude oil demand is increasing, particularly in places like China.

If the 2016 election is any indication, every four years, millions more Americans will continue backing away from their own parties to choose a third party instead.

I don't really go to fashion parties; they're not my scene.

You never know when you're going to be considered un-hip... The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually.

For a nanosecond in the pre-Internet pre-digital age, I was a hot young actor, in the sense of popular, and then it passed.

I'm pretty sure people are going to start writing letters again once the email fad passes.

I don't hold much of care for 3D. I think it's a passing fad. It came and went in the '60s. I don't see what it adds to the story.

As a result, periods of intense conflict tend to recur with a period of roughly two generations (40–60 years). These swings in the social mood may be termed "bi-generation cycles" because they involve alternating generations that are either prone to conflict, or not.

Turns out that when something gets cheaper, or more efficient, we just end up using so much more of the stuff that the savings disappear under a wave of increased consumption. They call it the "Jevons Paradox"

The fashion look of teens and twentysomethings -once so cutting edge- is now, like most of the music played on the radio, a matter of routine. Safe, tired, everywhere.

One, which I mention several times elsewhere, is the need for patience if big profits are to be made from investment. Put another way, it is often easier to tell what will happen to the price of a stock than how much time will elapse before it happens. The other is the inherently deceptive nature of the stock market. Doing what everybody else is doing at the moment, and therefore what you have an almost irresistible urge to do, is often the wrong thing to do at all.

That first year in L.A., Richard became addicted to cocaine. It was 1978, and coke was the "in" drug, selling for $100 per gram. This was prior to the Colombian cartels applying modern corporate techniques to the importation and distribution of cocaine in the States, which brought the price of a gram down to thirty-five dollars by the mid-eighties.

In the 2009–2010 school year, around 690,000 non-U.S. citizens were enrolled at American colleges, the highest level in the world and up 26 percent from a decade ago. Non-U.S.

These days, it literally is all about 'me'. In an analysis of over 750,000 books published between 1960 and 2008, Jean Twenge and her colleagues found that the use of first person plural pronouns (i.e. We, Us) decreased 10 per cent, while during this same timeframe, the use of first person singular pronouns (i.e. I, Me) increased 42 per cent, and second person pronouns (i.e. You, Your) quadrupled.

There has been a long-term decline in partisan attachment. As Paul Whiteley has recorded

If you respond to pop music as an older person, then it's your game. But this business has a tremendously visual focus.

The young generation has a different curiosity that is more visual.