If you look at any great fashion photograph out of context, it will tell you just as much about what's going on in the world as a headline in The New York Times.

Reported by childhood friend Vivienne Lasky, quoted by biographer Jerry Oppenheimer in Front Row: The Cool Life and Hot Times of Vogue's Editor In Chief, St. M…

Reported, quoted by Emma Brockes; May 27, 2006; 'What lies beneath'; The Guardian; retrieved March 23, 2007.

You either know fashion or you don't.