Brunello Cucinelli Quotes

In high school, girls started wearing high-waisted pants with their shirts tucked into them. I don't get what that's about.

The girls show more skin these days, but I think, generally, they behave the same way as when I was growing up.

Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now.

There can be a lot of pressure on girls to dress the way they wouldn't normally dress: on social media, at school, among friends.

I won't allow magazines in the house. When I was younger, I wanted to have my hair cut like so-and-so in the class above me at school, not somebody in a magazine. You see young girls trying to dress like so-and-so because they've seen lots of pictures of them.

I have a problem with fashion magazines sometimes - they seem to have these dogmas or uniforms. 'This is the way you must look; this is this season's must-have.' I really resent the phrase 'must-have.' I prefer to decide for myself what I think is beautiful or fashionable.

Young people in my generation were sort of in lockstep, and it wasn't just the '40s, either. In the '30s and in the '50s it was the same. No one ever dropped out unless he got sick or got kicked out.

How I dressed in high school is the way we dressed.

I liked women as a shape to dress.

When I was twelve or thirteen, if you liked something that was outside of your friend group genre, you had to rationalize and explain it in some way. It's totally irrelevant, I think, now. I don't think anybody cares. Not young people, at least. Maybe journalists.

I used to be super trendy and totally sexy. But I look back now and I used to want everything short and low cut and you really can't do it all.

Hordes of young girls never copied my hairdos or the way I talk or the way I dress. I have, therefore, never had to go through the stress of perpetuating an image that's often the equivalent of one particular song that forever freezes a precise moment of one's youth.

Yeah, at first people were talking about me. But now everyone is wearing their clothes more fitted.

The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

I just have a problem with youth culture.

When you're younger, it's all about conformity and being easily influenced - especially in terms of fashion. You just follow the trends. Whatever is hot at the moment, you want to get it. You basically just want to be doing what everyone else is doing. But as you get older, those things aren't as important.

When I was growing up, everyone dressed the same. You had to have bootcut pants and chunky heels.

I was waiting for all other actresses to wear a bikini first so I can just follow the bandwagon.

The only thing that makes me feel old is when I can see your ankles and you have on pants.

I have sometimes felt pressure to dress a certain way because of everyone else. You know what I mean? Girls in high school and strangers on the street have put way more pressure on me to dress a certain way than my mom or dad.

When I was a boy, I was sagging my pants like everyone else. Some boys become men and continue to sag their pants because that's their form of rebellion.

Television was not cool among the young people of my era, the last years of the '90s and the early '00s. It was not just old people who'd castigate you for watching anything but public television. We young people scoffed at each other about it.

I wore miniskirts when I was younger. We used to hide them in our bags before going out.

As a 15-year-old teenage girl, I can attest to the fact that boys dominate most conversations between girls my age.

Young people want to look like peas in a pod, and there is no use trying to make them different.