Simon Mainwaring Quotes

Because we know so much more, immediately, about what’s going on all over the world, there is less room to hide.

With technology and social media and citizen journalism, every rock that used to go unturned is now being flipped, lit and put on TV.

Social media and technology are democratising and opening up fashion and the process of fashion for all - this has good and bad sides, but that comes with any change.

I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.

During the Arab Spring, I learned all sorts of things from Twitter. I wouldn't necessarily trust that information, but it gave me ideas about questions to ask. You can really learn things from the wisdom of crowds.

I think 20th century media were about tricking people - and the beauty of the Internet is you can't lie anymore.

I think especially with the Internet and the amount of reality shows that are going on, there's no way to keep a secret anymore, so I try to let my project be as much as reality show as I can allow it to be.

The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that tools like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are little more than faddish distractions useful only to exchange trivial information, these critics are being proven wrong time and again.

You cannot underestimate the impact the Internet has had on British fashion.

The Internet exposes a diversity of opinion, experience, and taste we'd been led to believe didn't exist. If you were unusual in 1950 or 1980 - and everyone is unusual in one way or another - you were an isolated anomaly. Now you're a Web ring, a Yahoo category.

In this Internet age of shared information, even if you don't tell the people, they will find out.

The expansive anarchy of the Internet continues to lull us into believing that, because we can see something, that something should be seen. Because we can say something, there is something that must be said.

Non-disclosure in the Internet Age is quickly perceived as a breach of trust. Government, corporations and each of us as individuals must recalibrate how we live and share our lives appropriate to the information now available and the expectations of others.

Consumers around the world are more aware of the multiple global crises we face than ever before, thanks to information found on the Internet.

We've never lived in an environment in which it has been so easy to capture information and share it. That fact that it is digital and easy to transmit exacerbates that. I don't know that we know yet what social norms we wish to adopt.

Our printing press is the Internet. Our coffee houses are social networks.

The world is really run by the Web. There's so much information out there that you can click and keep going down the rabbit hole finding stuff.

We are witnessing a seismic change in consumer behavior. That change is being brought about by technology and the access people have to information.

I think social media, it in a way forces companies to be more authentic or more transparent because it gives a voice to the consumer and a reach to the consumer that they didn't have before.

I think that each season we, as an industry, evolve more and more in such a great way, and I'm really excited about it. We're able to put fashion into the hands of the consumer and eyes of the consumer, and I just think that there's no filter anymore; you just put it out there. There's an instant commentary. I think it's so interesting.

I laugh at stuff like Snapchat thinking it can change the world.

Like the invention of the printing press before it, the Internet has been the greatest instrumentality of free speech and the exchange of ideas in the history of mankind.

We have recently moved into an era when... everybody can share an inconceivably enormous amount of information just by stroking a few keys on a terminal.

In addition to all the good things it's done, the Internet has empowered an awful lot of people who would have been best off disempowered, including quite a few bloggers on both sides.

There's so much information accessible to everyone now because the Internet is so powerful; social media is so powerful.