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Fashionable Quote of the Week by Michelle Cole

Posted in Arts, Fashion, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on July 22, 2019| Leave a Comment »

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Photo: Julia Johnson.

I’m always photographing people, I always observe people when I’m traveling. Just looking at what a person has on is like looking at a piece of art to me. My parents are from the South, so I come from texture. I come from velvet at Christmas, seersucker and patent shoes at Easter, suede shoes in the fall. 

Michelle Cole, Emmy-nominated costume designer. Currently she is the CD for the ABC television sitcom, Black-ish.

I want to hang out wherever Ms. Cole does! Where is she seeing these “piece of art” people?

This quote is from a Q&A with Ms. Cole from The Costume Designer: The Official Magazine of the Costume Designers Guild. The focus of the interview was contemporary costuming for television.

 

 

 

 

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Fashionable Quote of the Week by Tracee Ellis Ross

Posted in Fashion, Uncategorized, Vintage, tagged , , , , on November 28, 2016| Leave a Comment »

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Ms. Ross is the daughter of singer and style icon Diana Ross.

I’ve been a shopper and vintage collector for years. I’m big on wearing clothes multiple times. I was taught as a young girl that you work hard for your money and there’s nothing wrong with spending it on beautiful things if you’re going to cherish them, take care of them and wear them lots.

– Tracee Ellis Ross, former fashion model and current actress on the television show Black-ish.

In 2016 Ms. Ross was the first African-American woman in 30 years to be nominated for an Emmy award in the category of best leading actress in a comedy. She didn’t win but I think we’ll see her again in the award lineup.

 

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