"Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.“


-David Bailey

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Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful.

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