Quotes About Style

I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan's look good.

Baseball caps never go out of style and are easy to wear. Beyond baseball, beyond sports, I really do think a baseball cap is for everyone.

I hate ready-made suits, button-down collars, and sports shirts.

What I always say is, "Look good, feel good, play good."

My swag was phenomenal.

What a hideous colour khaki is

One of the causes, by the way, of the apparent lack, at the present time, of great men lies in the poverty of the contemporary male coiffure. Rich in whiskers, beards, and leonine manes, the great Victorians never failed to look the part, nowadays it is impossible to know a great man when you see one.

Le style c'est I'homme. No doubt. But the converse is also partly true. L'homme c'est le style. Because we have a gift for writing in a certain way, we find ourselves, in some sort, becoming our way of writing. We mould ourselves in the likeness of our particular brand of eloquence.

El estilo es de unos pocos. Surge de una intimidad muy elevada y misteriosa con un material concreto. No se puede enseñar, se posee. Es un acontecimiento.

high heels were always a temptation, but, like all temptations, one paid for them later...

You should have seen him," she said. "A real ladies' man. Stuff in his hair. Dark glasses. Fancy shoes. He had no idea how funny he looked. I much prefer men with ordinary shoes and honest trousers.

La bella figura...it's at the heart of Italian life...it's about doing things beautifully.

If one could not remember somebody's trousers, then jeans were the safe default. Indeed, "defaults" was a good name for jeans. I put on my defaults. It sounded quite right.

I've always admired stylists. I put the writers of bumphable, ready-to-wear prose, calculated to sell, guaranteed not to shock, in the same category as artists who can't draw. There is a lack of bravery and a lot of fraud in them. I have tried never to write a book that didn't attempt something new in the way of narrative technique. Writing is an assault on cliche. I find little to admire in writers who make no attempt at originality.

Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.

Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.

Indigos express their "rage against the machine" in many different ways. Fashion

Writing and reading are the only ways to find your voice. It won't magically burst forth in your poems the next time you sit down to write, or the next; but little by little, as you become aware of more choices and begin to make them -- consciously and unconsciously -- your style will develop.

The alternative to good design is bad design, not no design at all.

Their writing has the deliberately obstructive style ordinarily employed when someone either has nothing to say or needs to conceal the fact that what they are saying is not true.

The technology of the time dictated the way things looked.

Any awards show or party I get fly for it.

I've just always worn wristbands. I'm not trying to be a player. It's just part of my uniform. Hell, I just got to be me and hope I don't hurt anybody in the meantime.

There is nothing more vulgar than sophisticated kitsch.