Quotes About Trends

I'm really into fashion, but I don't really spend that much on clothes. I manage to find everything I want at a good price.

I think bubbles are things people see with 20/20 hindsight. If you look at any particular period where prices go up and then they go down, you will always find people who predicted that they would go down. Those are the people you pay attention to.

The best measure of inflation is what is happening with commodity prices.

Deflation is defined as a general decline in prices, with emphasis on the word 'general.'

I used to say, 'Are you kidding?' about some prices for collectibles. I don't anymore because anything that screams its era is collectible.

Fifty years ago or a hundred years ago, generally, most people would buy a house the way you buy a car. When you buy a car, do you think, 'I better buy this year rather than next year because car prices might go up?'

Yes, prices go up in health care. They have been doing so for 80 straight years.

As demand goes down, you will see prices come down.

When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.

I think Princess Diana probably had the most famous haircut, or Farrah Fawcett or Jennifer Aniston.

I have this overriding principle that streetwear could end up like disco: that it will be perceived well at the time but doesn't age well at all.

No woman can wear prints all the time.

Prior to 1940, the affluent and the middle class began to converge, but after 1979, the economic gap between the middle class and affluent widened significantly.

A lot of men and women don't like to prioritize fashion.

You look at the trajectories; and as our schools have declined, you see the other alternatives increase, private school, home schooling, all of the other alternatives are going up.

Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.

One of the problems of writing and working and looking at the Internet is that it's very hard to separate fashion from deep change.

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

It's funny the things the Internet likes to proclaim.

It's very difficult for designers today. How can someone produce so many shows? Now the minimum is four a year.

You can't be in a bubble being a producer. You have to keep up on what's happening at all times.

Often by the time writers and producers try to get a new hit song, the industry has already moved on. Whatever you're creating might not be as hot as it would have been during the time of your first hit. It definitely compromises the creative process when the music is changing and evolving so fast. If you're not on top of it, you will be forgotten.

Ultimately, Bollywood producers only think of one thing: Who is saleable.

Fashion is not about product; it's about an interesting idea that you can't resist buying into.