Emilia Wickstead Quotes

Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time, with all the events. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes. You can see and feel everything in clothes.

I'm a really big advocate of ethical fashion. I actually have a travelling boutique called Maison de Mode, which is all about ethical fashion. I also like Maiyet from Paris. They're very Celine-esque in their silhouettes. I love their back story, too: they work with orphans in Colombia and India.

I was so proud of my team and myself for changing the rules of the fashion industry.

The turnover of fashion is just so quick and so throwaway, and I think that is a big part of the problem. There is no longevity.

Aficionados of Slow design and Slow fashion use ethical and green materials to make objects - furniture, clothes, jewellery - that lift the spirit and last a lifetime rather than one catwalk season.

Dressing up. People just don't do it anymore. We have to change that.

In the '50s, women aspired to dress like their mothers - this polished, controlled, formal way of dressing. Then all of a sudden in the '60s, going into the '70s, they stopped dressing like their mothers.

Buy less. Choose well. Make it last. Quality, not quantity. Everybody's buying far too many clothes.

Dressing up used to be more of a thing. My dad wore a suit always. Now you think, why bother?

As opposed to thinking about ourselves as disrupting the fashion industry, we're thinking about ourselves more broadly - about disrupting the closet and how you get dressed.

I want my clothes to have a life and then end up in a secondhand store, where some cool girl discovers them 20 years later. If the runway or red carpet is the only life clothes have, it's sad.

The fashion business has to change. There's too much waste.

When fashion turns over it brings in little tiny creaks and cracks. This is the fascination and that is where you have to watch every step.

I think it's important that there is a change, especially in fashion.

Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a Right, the natural right of the present over the past.

My New Year's style resolution is to buy and wear more clothing that is handmade by artisans or eco-friendly.

In the '70s, if anything, it was a more interesting time in fashion. It was a time when things were changing, especially in London.

I'm not sure about the selling part, but I've always found that the things I've worn on tour have moved over to what people wear every day. Sometimes the things I wore in the beginning before I had money were things I put together.

When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn't wear makeup or worry about how their hair looked, and everybody wore sensible, comfortable clothes. It ran into an absolute brick wall.

I hope I am the antithesis of disposable fashion.

Production chains, how consumers can drive change: all these things may seem at odds with fashion, but arguably, they're not.

I am going to get political on you. Because I am the most shallow person in the world, my mission is to see men's formal wear change a little bit. It is too rigid! Everybody looks like a penguin!

In the last couple of years, fashion's gotten a lot safer. People are really pulling back.

Classically posh girls like Victoria Hervey are now trying to be Hollywood girls. Hollywood girls are trying to be posh girls. Everything is all mixed up, turned on its head.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.