Elizabeth Hawes

Fashion Is Spinach

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After working as a stylist in Paris, Elizabeth Hawes (1903–71) launched one of the first American design houses in Depression-era New York. Hawes was an outspoken critic of the fashion industry and a champion of ready-to-wear styles. Fashion Is Spinach, her witty and astute memoir, offers an insider's critique of the fashion scene during the 1920s and '30s. &quote;I don't know when the word fashion came into being, but it was an evil day,&quote; Hawes declares. Style, she maintains, reflects an era's mood, altering only with changes in attitude and taste. Fashion, conversely, exists only to perpetuate sales. Hawes denounces the industry's predatory practices, advising readers to reject ever-changing fads in favor of comfortable, durable, flattering attire. Decades ahead of her time, she offers a fascinating and tartly observed behind-the-scenes look at the fashion industry's economics, culture, and ethics.
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364 printed pages
Publication year
2015
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Quotes

  • SefaniaYShas quoted7 years ago
    creature called fashion
  • SefaniaYShas quoted7 years ago
    On top of style there has arisen a strange and wonderful
  • Viktoriya Arkhipenkohas quoted9 years ago
    Fashion is a parasite on style. Without style, he wouldn’t exist, but what he does to it is nobody’s business.

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