Quotes About Trends

When I was signed, that was before the punk thing even happened.

A lot of people get signed then don't really care what the people want anymore. They're just thinking 'How am I going to make that hit?'

For years, the NFL was the one league apparently immune from ratings downturns of any significance.

For me, it is one of the 'signs of the times' that the idea of God's mercy is becoming increasingly central and dominant.

I love to make fun of fashion because it is just so silly.

Fashion is silly. Perhaps I should say fashion in general is silly. But then everything is, in general. If you talk about music in general, it's silly; about magazines, in general, they're silly.

Some New York bands you'll see rocking Ones or Dunks and things like that, but it is weird that the sneakerhead thing has become so massive. Personally, I think it's really silly.

I truly believe that what we're seeing with online dating is very similar to what happened with the Myspace-Facebook era, where Myspace was once this place for online connecting for a very select group of young people. And then Facebook kind of hit at this moment where it was acceptable for everybody to do it.

There are a lot of good men's magazines. In England, you have 'Arena Homme+' and 'Another Man;' and in France we have 'L'Officiel Hommes.' But all are looking similar.

Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.

Other surveys show the same shifts.

The fashion game is fun for architects to play and diverting for the public to watch, but it's deadly for building users. When the height of fashion moves on, they're the ones left behind, stuck in a building that was designed to look good rather than work well, and now it doesn't even look good.

There are three avenues of opportunity: events, trends, and conditions. When opportunities occur through events but you are unable to respond, you are not smart. When opportunities become active through a trend and yet you cannot make plans, you are not wise. When opportunities emerge through conditions but you cannot act on them, you are not bold.

We used to be the drunkest nation in the world; now we are the fattest nation in the world.

In 1820, the average amount an individual drank in one day was more than three times the average today.119

In 1940 the out-of-wedlock birth rate for blacks was 19 percent. Today it is close to 70 percent.

But it's hard to be hip over thirty When everyone else is nineteen, When the last dance we learned was the Lindy, And the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbra Streisand Were trying to do something about it.

And looking at today's music scene, I think it's cool that there are a lot of consumers and fans not limited by what radio and the record companies tell them to buy.

Los hombres son como las ovejas. Donde va uno, los demás lo siguen.

Waistlines were dropping in the capital; the forgiving billows of the Regency style were giving way to something far more structured and uncomfortable. By 1840, Iris predicted, women would be corseted into nothingness.

Fashion is fragile and fleeting. But it is also an indicator for the cultural and social appetites for a nation.

The fashion industry, like others, is constantly changing.

To me, the consumer-electronics business feels a lot like the PC business in the late 1980s. It's an inefficient market.

During the past two decades, inflation has fallen to a low level in major industrial countries.