Quotes About Trends

I stay current and draw inspiration from Fashion Week in New York as well as just by scrolling through Instagram. The runways are always a good sign of what's to come, but I also get tons of ideas from real girls on the street.

I try to avoid the 'art world' as much as possible. It's too much about fads and fashions - who's getting the best prices at auction and things like that.

There are never any absolutes in the fashion business: one day you may like black, and the next day you like colour. I think it's a good lesson that we should never believe too much in any one thing - because the next day it's out, and if we're stuck to it, we're out, too.

Every day I am being told to sign up for Tumblr, Yammer, Friendfeed, Plaxo, Last.fm, ping.fm or the hot social-media tool du jour that happened to get mentioned on Mashable.com. It is like a social-media arms race. Each one of these new tools is like a cool new night club. Hot today, gone tomorrow, replaced with something else.

Modern cookbooks are marketing tools for chefs. They're in the bestseller lists but no one cooks from them.

Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.

'American Top 40' allowed me to be current without my having to force change to keep up with things. The new songs kept us up to date, so every show sounded fresh.

Social media can sometimes influence the charts, but I think that only great music makes it to the top. The good songs make it.

You will see nowadays TV's Top 20 and Radio's Top 20 tend to be the same. And then there are films that never reach to mass audience, and because of that, their soundtrack also dies a silent death.

That's the trouble with playing a cutting-edge narcotics detective - you've got to wear what's topical at the moment. My kids tease me about outfits I was wearing last week, let alone in the eighties.

I'm a student of the movies. I'm a student of all media. This is what I do, and I like to immerse myself in what's current and what's topical. And I find that I'm drawn to those things.

The media doesn't really help you. Today, they are talking about me. Tomorrow, they will talk about someone else. There is always something or somebody who is topical.

It's hard to tell what is even mainstream anymore because there's so many platforms now. And they're all topics of conversation.

I don't think the disruptor and the business model of a disruptor necessarily is an indication of the topography of the future. If it did, you would say then that everyone will make high-end electric cars, when the answer is clearly no.

I love the garishness of the '90s - the giant platform shoes, the sparkly butterfly tops, the chokers.

Shopping for guys in Toronto is a really tough thing because there's not a huge market for it.

An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million.

The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way down at the bottom in terms of total numbers and growth.

Each decade absolutizes its own fashions of thought and action without the least pause and consideration of the fact that a decade later those very fashions and ideas will be buried in the dustbin of history as one turns to a new decade.

We live in an age of some really good blow-job artists. Every era has its art form. The nineteenth century, I know, was tops for the novel

A true classicist also keeps up with the times, cycling looks in and around the basics of her wardrobe – things such as trench coats, designer denim, knee boots, and big totes bags – items that invariably return to style time and again.

It's true that fashion is looking at fashion all the time, and this is quite boring.

In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.

In the '70s, if anything, it was a more interesting time in fashion. It was a time when things were changing, especially in London.