Sam at Pitti
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The difference between style and fashion is quality.
Giorgio Armani
This Armani fellow, he makes a nice suit — but he’s entirely wrong. Quality has nothing to do with it. Fashion is about trends. It’s about following trends. It’s about wearing or doing what’s popular because it’s popular.
Style, though — that’s a personal expression. It’s a form of communication. It’s a statement: this is who I am, this is who I want to be. Style requires a person to understand who he or she is. A person with style can wear low-quality, cheap-ass clothing and make it look good. Fashion only requires access to popular media and a credit card.
Sometimes style and fashion can overlap, of course. So it seems appropriate that today, the 180th anniversary of John Venn’s birthday, we see the intersection of style and fashion. This is Sam at Pitti.
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