AJ Tracey Quotes

I've always been inspired by Japanese style.

Tokyo style is so specific. And I'm a very big fan of their history. It's pretty simple. A lot of the time, people expect to see the wild style that comes out of Japan, but I think, traditionally, the style is very simple.

I want men to be more chic - and Japanese style has that kind of sophisticated elegance.

I'm very into the japanese sensibility. Oversize coats and baggy trousers.

When I was first writing about Japan, it was at the peak of the Bubble. Bubble popped, but they kept on going. Japanese street style feeds American iconics back into America in somewhat the way English rock once fed American blues back into America.

I don't wear plaid shirts.

What resonates culturally with me about Japanese style is that it is very covered up but very sensual.

I've been studying the cultures of Asia for many years, and I'm very attracted to the culture of Japan, in particular to the impact Zen has had on the Japanese mind and spirit.

Japan, for me, will always be my inspiration source.

My clothes are very popular in Japan.

It's true that I pick up many ideas from different Japanese things.

I was the last of the British style that was a big thing in Japan.

Japan is the only country I have visited that I want to go to again. I just feel the Japanese have such good taste and dedication to craftsmanship in everything they do. They also merge the traditional and modern aspects of their culture so well.

A lot of my personality and my affinity for certain pieces of pop culture and art all stem from a sort of Japanese aesthetic and way of thinking.

Paris dictates fashion to the whole world.

Men don't wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that.

Fashion is what you're offered four times a year. Style is what you pick out of that fashion...

Fashion is ephemeral, dangerous and unfair.

The Japanese have become so smitten with the Western condiment - its texture as silky as a kimono, its tang as understated as the tang of Zen - that today they have a word for mayonnaise junkie: mayora.

Judging from the ugly and repugnant things that are sometimes in vogue, it would seem as though fashion were desirous of exhibiting its power by getting us to adopt the most atrocious things for its sake alone.

After moving to New York, I started to love vintage shopping.

Fashion is not public opinion, or the result of embodiment of public opinion. It may be that public opinion will condemn the shape of a bonnet, as it may venture to do always, and with the certainty of being right nine times in ten: but fashion will place it upon the head of every woman in America; and, were it literally a crown of thorns, she would smile contentedly beneath the imposition.

I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence.

It is interesting how fashion filters down and we discover in the "Devil Wears Prada" that we're all prey to trends, even if we think we are not.

PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place.