October 2011
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“The dominance of the fashion, food-court and family-focused mall is ending. No new enclosed malls have opened in the U.S. since 2006.”
—The New York Times. August 4th, 2009
“The house and Clothes have answered the human requirement for shelter and, whether we will or not, they also express the individual and the national ideal of beauty in colour and form, satisfying in this way the demands of the aesthetic instinct. The degree of satisfaction these things give the cultivated aesthetic sense is the measure of their artistic value, it is not their period, their oddity, or their cost that determines it.”
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The Psychology of Dress by Frank Parsons, Double Day, Page & Company
New York, 1921
The Austerity Aesthetic
Fashion, technology and music are the industries that more often than not support us in our need to think smart, and our desire to look and feel smart in times of difficulty.
-Greg Taylor of Elmwood
