Retro Trends Quotes

Fashion only seems to make sense if it's rooted in some dimension of history or if it feels like a continuation of an idea.

That whole Wavy Spice, '90s thing, it wasn't who I was or what I saw myself doing in the future.

Of the countless ways to feel old in your 40s, perhaps none is quite as perplexing as seeing a young person trendily decked out in 1980s-style garb and saying to yourself, 'I can't believe that look is back in style. It was bad enough the first time around!'

The first time I ever saw platform shoes in the '70s, I knew they'd been revived from the '40s, and I felt sickened. And for whatever reason, they keep getting revived. They've come back four times. I wish we could let them die. They want to die. They were horrible then, they're horrible now.

You know you're getting old when kids start to dress like you used to and movies are made about your teen life.

I hated the '80s for years, and now I look back and think, actually, there was something really cool about it.

You see those guys wearing baggy pants, descendants of the parachute pants, wearing an odd, weird Frankenstein haircut. It all comes out of Peter Lorre.

The Beatles were great; we know that. But we were trying to do a new thing. Why do we need to recreate the Sixties?

A lot of the post-1977 dancefloor disco sounds had their place at one time, but you can't bring them back unless you bring back a floor.

When people make the educated argument that things should go back, it's more like going back to a feeling they had when they heard some of the music that came out. Not going back to that music being rehashed. That's stupid.

Tell me, why do former young designers who are now in their middle 40s have to redo the 1960s and 70s. Why they cannot invent fashion for today?