"Fashion and music have always been inextricably linked. People will never forget the day the Beatles walked off the plane; David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust, John Travolta strutting in `Saturday Night Fever,' or Madonna as the `Material Girl.'"

Richard D. Beckman, president of Conde Nast Media Group and executive producer of the Fashion Rocks show, July 7 2006, AP newsagency