Fashion is not a way of being informed or aware, but a way of being with it.

When a thing is current, it creates currency; fashion creates wealth by moving textiles and making them ever more current.

Glancing at The Mechanical Bride the other day, I suddenly realized that the central image of legs on a pedestal (spare parts from the Love Goddesss assembly line) has been completely reversed by electric technology. The mini-skirt costume around the legs on a pedestal present an epiphany of the reversal of the old story in an instant of truth.

Fashion is speech. It defines sexes, classes, age groups. It is therefore infallible. Violations threaten.

Fashion was concerned only with sight. Fashion models looked like manikins. We were interested only in the clothes, not the girl.

Meantime, the countryside, as oriented and fashioned by plane, by highway, and by electric information-gathering, tends to become once more the nomadic trackless area that preceded the wheel. The beatniks gather on the sands to meditate haiku.

The Europeans, however, underwent a sort of consumer revolution at the end of the eighteenth century. When industrialism was a novelty, it became fashionable among the upper classes to abandon rich, courtly attire in favor of simpler materials.”

Conformity to this fashion literally gives currency to a style or fabric, creating a social medium that increases wealth and expression thereby. Does not this stress how money, or any medium whatever, is constituted and made efficacious?

…in the photographic age, fashions have come to be like the collage style in painting.

Small children now attach the phrase "the olden days" to yesterday's hats and overshoes, so keenly are they attuned to the abrupt seasonal changes of visual posture in the world of fashions.

Today, beehive hairdos and slim jims are an extension of involvement.

Because the ads have created a world in which fashion dictates that each of us must always have enough cash to conform, success is the cash-ability to be like everybody else. Our fashions change rapidly so that to be in fashion takes a great deal of ready money.

For anybody who acquires the power of pattern recognition by a study of figure-ground gestalts, the present gives access to at least the next 30 years.

By involving all men in all men, by the electric extension of their own nervous systems, the new technology turns the figure of the primitive society into a universal ground that buries all previous figures.