I have a love for colorful things. I’m a fashion maximalist. I come from the school of people who look at the decoration in Marie Antoinette’s bedroom, and think ‘Why so reserved?’ Suzy Menkes Read Quote
One thing I learned is how much easier it is to write about clothes than it is to make them. Suzy Menkes Read Quote
With a global society hungry for luxury, distribution and supply chains are now as important for executives as a hands-on feel for products. Suzy Menkes Read Quote
Fledgling designers need investment – but how much easier it is to put them in a dead man or woman’s shoes, perhaps also backing the new designer’s namesake line, but only as what the French call a ‘danseuse,’ a plaything. Suzy Menkes Read Quote
As a journalist, I cannot help imagining with excitement a new era with a face-off between Hedi Slimane at YSL and Raf Simons at Dior – a magnificent battle of style and wills to echo the Armani/Versace, Gucci/Prada or even Chanel/Schiaparelli face-offs of earlier years. But I remind myself that this is not a game of chess. Suzy Menkes Read Quote
Only the fat-cat corporations can really afford to put on two mega-ready-to-wear shows a year, or four if you add two haute couture shows, or six if you count men’s wear. Resort and prefall push the number up to eight. A couple of promotional shows in Asia, Brazil, Dubai or Moscow can bring the count to 10. Suzy Menkes Read Quote
Who needs to graduate from Central Saint Martins in London or New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology when a homemade outfit can go viral on YouTube with millions of hits? Suzy Menkes Read Quote
Smartphones are so fabulous in so many ways that it seems daft to be nostalgic about the days when an image did not go round the world in a nanosecond. Suzy Menkes Read Quote
