Elayne Boosler Quotes

Fashion anticipates.

Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don't have a change, you're bored. It's the same with fashion, you know. And that, I suppose, is what style is about.

In fashion, you need to present something new every six months, but it takes time to study things. Development is very important.

Whenever I'm doing a collection, I'm inspired by the world around us.

I guess your style should be ever evolving because that's the best thing about it.

When you have such a huge past, a big background as we have, you can play off that - a lot of people do. But we felt we wouldn't have a legitimate future unless we put something new together.

Some people think that my shows are just for shock value, but the provocation makes those classic pieces look different every six months. You don't need to see the same gray suit every season. But surrounding it with 40 really interesting ideas makes it feel new.

You're always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully they're all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadn't done on the first one.

Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.

I'm always driven to keep doing something different and better.

Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.

Every season we try to do something new. And not for gimmicks. We feel the show has to evolve and keep changing.

I think more and more that I get to challenge myself and kind of raise the standard for myself every season. Even the term 'fashion' is about change. It's about newness. And what that newness means is different every 10 years, every five years.

Art is about building a new foundation, not just laying something on top of what's already there.

Longevity in this business is about being able to reinvent yourself or invent the future.

We've had great successes, but our future is not about our past success. It's going to be about whether we will invent things that are really going to drive our future.

My whole artistic life has always been about change, change, change, move on, move on. It's the only thing I find interesting.

I'm not interested in re-creating the same blues I love so much. I'm interested in pushing boundaries.

I love seeing the new generation take something that we've done and reinvent it for a whole new time.

Progress only happens with change, and people love something different.

I'm just getting back into my songwriting groove. It's still pretty early. But I don't want to make 'Hero 2.' It's going to be different.

When it comes to the moves themselves, after I created a style, a lot of guys started doing the same moves I was. I had to switch up my whole offense. Then, when it happened again, I had to switch it up again. It was a hard thing to do, but it helps me grow and helps me not become stale.

That's kind of the nature of being in a progressive band - always trying new things, moving forward.

In fashion, the minute you say, 'I am successful,' is the minute you are going down.

You gotta give everybody a new trend a new wave, something new to do.