Quote of quotes 2007

"You have to be very bloody minded and you have to be quite unpleasant sometimes".

Former Topshop director Jane Shephardson details the blood and guts that is fashion retailing. 
March 23

"To single out a business such as Ojay for this type of treatment is not only dishonest but quite possibly defamatory."

Australian Fashion Council managing director Zoe Edquist makes clear her feelings on Fairwear's mock trophy ceremony designed to shame non-award compliant companies.
April 20

"I am constantly changing the wigs on the mannequins [in my store] so they can take on another persona."

Like Olivia Newton John in A Mom for Christmas, designer Oscar Calvo believes mannequins have feelings too.
July 27

"It's not like we sit there and go ooooh, maybe we'll just stage it 'then' or maybe 'then'."

Australian Fashion Week regional marketing and communications director Graeme Lewsey is clearly not a subscriber to the scissors, paper, rock choice theory. Lewsey said the timing of Trans-seasonal Fashion Week - which falls on the back of Paris Fashion Week - was logically decided.
September 21

"The days of the ladies at machines going at it like hyenas at a buffalo are well and truly over."

No, Andrew Gibbs is not recounting dramatic scenes from net-a-porter.com's annual spring/summer sale. The TFIA representative paints a, er, graphic picture on the changing world of manufacturing at FGI's 'Cutting Edge' conference.