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Robin Givhan
American
Editor
Born:
Sep 11
,
1964
Beauty
Endeavor
Fashion
Go
Information
Myself
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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
Fashion
Pure
Clothes
Only
Results
Outside
Self-Conscious
Message
Occasionally
Often
Commodity
Realm
Muddled
Tread
Designers
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
Music
Art
Fashion
Recycling
Few
Films
Worn
Worse
Some
Most
Halls
Go
Fame
Landfill
Bin
Seasons
Museums
I've always summed up my definition of fashion as the way that people present themselves on the public stage.
Robin Givhan
Fashion
People
Stage
Way
Definition
Always
Up
Public
Themselves
Present
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
Me
About
Write
He
Columns
Most
Cheney
Auschwitz
Dick Cheney
Interesting
Ceremony
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
Women
Way
Dress
Dressing
Like
Polished
Mothers
Controlled
Going
Stopped
Formal
Then
Aspired
Sudden
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
Fashion
Events
Endeavor
Fine
Fine Line
Struggles
Tension
Between
Industry
Line
Commenting
Commercial
Unfairly
Which
Social
Them
Exploiting
Fashion Industry
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
Word
Negative
Value
Beauty
Whatever
Own
Superficial
Emotional
Underestimated
Sake
Cannot
Connotations
Applied
Suggesting
Pull
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