“Perhaps it is the function of fashion to be frivolous. What better way to catch the eye and, hopefully, the heart, than with the dazzle of gold threads in a silk sari or the languid drape of a paisley shawl. Fashion has a great deal to do with sex, which is, after all, how we go about ensuring the continuity of the species, and it has been that way for a very long time. In that sense, FASHION is about survival. There is nothing frivolous about that.”