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Designer Marc Jacobs ended his sixteen-year tenure at Louis Vuitton with a spring 2014 collection that celebrated fashion in its purest and least complicated form - as majestic, superficial beauty.

~ Robin Givhan

Beauty Celebrated Collection Complicated Designer Ended Fashion Form His Least Louis Majestic Marc Purest Spring Superficial Tenure

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Fashion designers only occasionally tread outside the realm of clothes as pure commodity. When they do, the results are often a muddled, self-conscious message.

~ Robin Givhan

Clothes Commodity Designers Fashion Message Occasionally Often Only Outside Pure Realm Results Self-Conscious Tread

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Films go into vaults, art into museums, and music into halls of fame. Most fashion is worn for a few seasons and off-loaded into the recycling bin or, worse, some landfill.

~ Robin Givhan

Art Bin Fame Fashion Few Films Go Halls Landfill Most Museums Music Recycling Seasons Some Worn Worse

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For me, one of the most interesting columns to write was about Dick Cheney when he represented the U.S. at a commemorative ceremony at Auschwitz.

~ Robin Givhan

About Auschwitz Ceremony Cheney Columns Dick Cheney He Interesting Me Most Write

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I have a rule that I don't review shows from photographs or from video. I certainly might go back and look at photographs and look at video to remind myself of something or for personal information. But I never review from that.

~ Robin Givhan

Back Certainly Go Information Look Might Myself Never Personal Personal Information Photographs Remind Review Rule Shows Something Video

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I think of myself as the eyes and ears and voice of the reader.

~ Robin Givhan

Ears Eyes I Think Myself Reader Think Voice

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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.

~ Robin Givhan

Aspired Controlled Dress Dressing Formal Going Like Mothers Polished Stopped Sudden Then Way Women

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It's a fine line between commenting on social events and exploiting them in a commercial endeavor. This is the tension with which the fashion industry struggles - unfairly.

~ Robin Givhan

Between Commenting Commercial Endeavor Events Exploiting Fashion Fashion Industry Fine Fine Line Industry Line Social Struggles Tension Them Unfairly Which

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I've always summed up my definition of fashion as the way that people present themselves on the public stage.

~ Robin Givhan

Always Definition Fashion People Present Public Stage Themselves Up Way

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The word 'superficial' comes with such negative connotations, suggesting that whatever it is applied to has no value. But the emotional pull of beauty for its own sake cannot be underestimated.

~ Robin Givhan

Applied Beauty Cannot Emotional Negative Own Pull Sake Suggesting Superficial Underestimated Value Whatever Word

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