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Article: GLORIA GUINNESS; THOUGHTS ON BEAUTY, FASHION AND LONGING FOR AN ERA GONE BY.
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- WWD
- Article date:
- September 13, 1999
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The absolute and frank truth is I'm lost when it come to fashion today.
"Ten years ago, women dressed well and looked dignified. Today, if you dress like a decent person, you are made to feel you're a million years old. If you dress young, you look like an idiot. What choice is there?
"I am no judge...that's not my place. But I don't think the Sixties have done anything for anybody....
"If I had a child who was a hippie, I would be horrified. Again, it's not the morality, but the physical ugliness and vulgarity. Looking at them rather makes me sick....
"In the last few years, fashion has not only been ugly, it also photographs ugly. ...