"The only real innovations in fashion come from technology."

— Hussein Chalayan (via crystallizations)

"Femininity is depicted as weakness, the sapping of strength, yet masculinity is so fragile that apparently even the slightest brush with the feminine destroys it."

— Gwen Sharp (via froideurs)

(Source: queerblackandproud, via froideurs)

"Art exists because life is not enough."

— Ferreira Gullar (via funeraire)

(Source: artmonia, via funeraire)

"Clothing doesn’t lie, it shows everything."

— Yohji Yamamoto

(Source: ejakulation)

"I always wonder who decided that there should be a difference in the clothes of men and women. Perhaps men decided this."

— Yohji Yamamoto (via comdesgarcons)

(Source: gastlyy, via crystallizations)

"I could not keep from staring at her, but I knew my gaze was incontinuous, broken, composed of hundreds of frozen gazes, with a tiny interval between each as long as the gaze itself."

— Susan Sontag, The Benefactor. (via froideurs)

(Source: anxiaimago, via froideurs)

"I love mankind, he said, ‘but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.’"

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (via adjectival)

(Source: larmoyante, via adjectival)

"There is no better designer than Nature"

— Alexander McQueen (via virare)

"One should either be a work of art or wear a work of art."

— Oscar Wilde (via missesdressy)e (via crystallizations)

(via crystallizations)

"Ivich was a voluptuous and tragic little embodiment of pain, which had no morrow: she would depart, go mad, die of a heart attack, or her parents would keep her close at Laon. But Matthieu could not endure to live without her. He made a timid movement with his hand: he longed to grasp Ivich’s arm above the elbow and squeeze it. ‘I loathe being touched.’"

— Jean-Paul Sartre, The Age Of Reason.  (via seelenlos)

(Source: weepling, via froideurs)

"I don’t feel too excited about fashion today. People just want cheap fast clothes and are happy to look like everyone else."

— Rei Kawakubo (via crystallizations)

"To be too conscious is an illness."

— Dostoevsky

(via ialu)

"Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being’s eyes."

— Douglas Coupland, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture. (via seelenlos)

(Source: larmoyante, via froideurs)

"We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing."

— Charles Bukowski 

"To be too conscious is an illness."

— Dostoevsky

(via stray-souls)

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