Josh Gondelman Quotes

I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.

The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion.

Fashion Week is surprisingly very short. At least the actual runway shows are.

When it comes to Fashion Week, I'm over the too-cool-for-school runway experience with loud music in a raw space that's inconvenient for everyone.

There is so much more fashion coverage online, so women today are really seeing the collections. They're a lot savvier and more aware of the discrepancies between what they see on the runway and what they end up seeing in their local shops.

When I started coming to do shows in New York, New York had a pretty electric energy then. It was the early-nineties, and there was a lot of really fun theatrical types that were designing, and so the runway kind of became this stage for all of these mega model personalities to flaunt their stuff.

I check Style.com to look at the collections and love to poke around some of the other fashion blogs to see what's going on.

I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.

I've never been in New York for the whole time of Fashion Week.

Fashion shows used to be more crazy. Now they've become a bit too serious.

My favourite designers are Alexander McQueen, YSL, Eskandar, Donna Karan and Lanvin.

While being the husband of uberstylist Rachel Zoe lets me waltz confidently into fashion shows with Rachel by my side, the VIP treatment usually stops there.

I've worn over 6,700 gowns. They're all borrowed gowns, designer samples.

I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to designers, but I love going to fashion shows just to see the other personalities that show up. It's such an eclectic group, and everybody is sort of like an artist.

Chennai is certainly not a fashion place, though I hear it's picking up.

There was no concept of fashion and catwalk shows where I came from.

The first time I ever came to fashion week, everyone was wearing heels.

The way the media tends to cover fashion is as this superfluous, vacuous industry. They focus on models and shows, but behind all that is a massive global industry.

I grew up in Milan during the golden age of designers. There was fashion all around.

I hadn't really been in that world for too long. It was fun for me, but definitely wasn't my world. When I went to my first Paris Fashion Week, I had been invited to the Louis Vuitton show by Nicolas. We met there. It was all organic and fun for me.

There's nothin' wrong with the way men dress in New York!

There isn't that disconnect between the fashion industry and people now - you can be a trendsetter even if you don't go to shows. The industry isn't as snobbish as it used to be.

I stay current and draw inspiration from Fashion Week in New York as well as just by scrolling through Instagram. The runways are always a good sign of what's to come, but I also get tons of ideas from real girls on the street.

I love fashion and a fashion trend, if it works for me. If it doesn't, I couldn't care less about it.

Oftentimes you'll see pictures from fashion shows and all the models outside the show in their real clothes are wearing brands like Supreme.