Laurie Simmons Quotes

I'm realizing I'm not hip enough to know for sure what would be considered pop-culture.

If you stick around long enough, you're going to become fashionable eventually.

It's a difficult thing to be in fashion or popular - it's all so fickle.

When a popular phenomenon reaches the cover of 'Time', it is already out of fashion.

I'm the flavor of the month.

I'm not exactly the zeitgeist queen.

What is cool today is not going to be cool tomorrow, and what wasn't cool yesterday is going to be cool tomorrow.

When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.

If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.

Biennial culture is already almost irrelevant, because so many more people are providing so many better opportunities for artists to exhibit their work.

Trends don't mean very much.

My parents are so cool, so chill, super hip. They know what's up.

If you've gotta follow a fashion, pick a good fashion, I say, yes.

For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.

I see groups that are hot one minute, and next time you see them, they're asking if you want a soda with that Happy Meal.

The Oscars are about the dynamics of that moment, of that season. It reflects what's been going on in the world every year through the movies. And a lot of times, what's popular at the movies is popular because of what's going on in the world at that moment.

Remember that what seems zeitgeisty today is the cause of tomorrow's bafflement or, worse, ridicule.

He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

Teenagers especially are very, very conscious about what is hip and what is lame and what is square and what is out and what is in, you know. And, I mean, I grew up right there in the middle of a black culture. And I knew dead-on what it was.

Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.

I think that 'Twilight' is so big that nothing can affect it.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.

I'm always looking for a cover subject that reflects the magazine, an interest in fashion, in culture, in society. We're trying to bring the world into the pages of 'Vogue.' We do that by tapping into the zeitgeists with our cover subjects.

There are some people who have helped to advance me and other girls, but the fashion industry is always behind popular culture. They think they understand the zeitgeist. They don't know anything about the zeitgeist.