26 Mar 11
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Originally posted by FMF
"In order to be genuinely fashionable you must avoid everything in fashion." John Ralston Saul.
Discuss.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/in+fashion
fash·ion (fshn)
n.
1. The prevailing style or custom, as in dress or behavior: out of fashion.
2. Something, such as a garment, that is in the current mode: a swimsuit that is the latest fashion.
3. The style characteristic of the social elite: a man of fashion.
4.
a. Manner or mode; way: Set the table in this fashion.
b. A personal, often idiosyncratic manner: played the violin in his own curious fashion.
5. Kind or variety; sort: people of all fashions.
6. Shape or form; configuration.
Going only by the quote, I'd guess that he's trying to make a distinction between definition #3 and definition #1 with the terms "genuinely fashionable" and "in fashion" respectively. So neither "self-destructing" nor a "paradox". More like two different "fashions" for two different "classes".
31 Mar 11
Originally posted by FMFIn Henry David Thoreau's book Walden, Thoreau writes (paraphrased) "The head monkey in Paris put's on a red hat, and so all the little monkeys put on red hats" I think this is a good defination of fashion.đ
"In order to be genuinely fashionable you must avoid everything in fashion." John Ralston Saul.
Discuss.
31 Mar 11
Originally posted by PalynkaI've liked this one since I first heard it:
Since we are in a quoting mood:
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
- Oscar Wilde
"I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people die of natural causes." -author unknown
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03 Apr 11
Originally posted by Bosse de NageMyeah.
“A fashionable woman does not suffer financial pressures, because Fashion has, precisely, full power to defeat them" (Mallarme, writing as Mme de Ponty)
http://fashionandpower.blogspot.com/2010/02/mallarme-fashion-magazine.html
In other news, Beau Brummell was a bankrupt.
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03 Apr 11
Originally posted by Bosse de NageYou think so? Blue linnen trowse, greyish-ecru jacket, almost but not quite pink shirt... I'd say that he conforms exactly to the fashionable image of his class of men of the last few years. I'd bet you at least a bag of crisps that ten years ago he wouldn't have worn that shirt; and the jacket does not fit well enough.
I'd say he lives up to his motto:
http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2010/05/21/1225869/715130-john-ralston-saul.jpg
Richard
05 Apr 11
Originally posted by Shallow BlueIt's the pants that I find resolutely unfashionable. The principle is in the pants. It is noteworthy how artfully Saul has arranged himself to show off his 'unfashionable' look.
You think so? Blue linnen trowse, greyish-ecru jacket, almost but not quite pink shirt... I'd say that he conforms exactly to the fashionable image of his class of men of the last few years. I'd bet you at least a bag of crisps that ten years ago he wouldn't have worn that shirt; and the jacket does not fit well enough.
Richard
Compare the more classically styled AC Grayling:
http://communicatescience.com/zoonomian/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/ac-grayling31.jpg
http://www.doctorofdisbelief.com/files/a-c-grayling-at-desk.jpg
I wonder if his look will be affected by his newfound ability to eat mangoes.