His models wore decent, charming clothes and appeared in a giant box — after the designer tore away the brown paper and "The Wizard of Oz" soundtrack started to work its musical magic.
"That's where I got the magic of clothes, because my mother didn't give them to me.
And that's the true magic of clothes: they're fake, they're real, they're everything you want them to be.
If she had, I never would have known the power, magic and mystery clothes could have.
The magic of the clothes was in the expert cut and the impeccable and imaginative, though totally discreet, details.
Tell them how to buy clothes, magic and hoverboards.
The magic of designer clothes is that they're made from the finest fabrics, by the best tailors; therefore, they last longer in time and don't tear apart very easily; not to mention they look extraordinary for a long time.
It's a Proustian moment for me - my mother wore Ossie Clark and as a child I was smitten with the glamour of his clothes, the magic of his tailoring and a desire to grow up as quickly as possible so I, too, could wear that black wool 'Dick Turpin' maxicoat with the silver buttons or the chiffon blouse with the impractical billowing sleeves.
You may not be able to afford a dinner at the French Laundry -- heck, you might not even be able to get a reservation -- but that doesn't mean you can't share a little bit of that clothes-pinned magic.
She carries both the extreme intelligence and aspirational quality of the woman who thought, and deserved, to have another kind of life and the tawdry, pathetic dreamer who can't manage to keep change in her purse or clothes in her magic trunk, stuffed full of the people she never got to be.
