Quotes About Style

Cheap jewelry, however, is worse than no jewelry at all, and there are very few things in life that are worse than no jewelry at all.

Yeah, we pretty much had a form and a shape by that time - a style - and I think one of the advantages of not having any relationship to any other puppeteer was that it gave me a reason to put those together myself for the needs of television.

Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

I love the idea of couture and its emphasis on creation. There's where I made my name - in design - and there's where I'd like to stay.

Sometimes I think dressing to go out is the best part of the evening.

Well I've written four beauty books as well.

En arte, el manierismo concede tanta importancia o más a la manera cómo está hecha la obra que a la esencia de lo que se expresa. También aquí, la acepción del término "forma" como "manera" o "modo" -y por extensión, incluso "moda"1- designa cosas exteriores.

The most beautiful clothes look awful draped over a shapeless from. And, conversely, a really good figure can wear a twenty-dollar dress with verve.

Ginger did everything Fred did, only backwards and in High Heels!

If you're going to die, die interesting! Is there anything worse than a boring death? (Other than a Charlie Rose marathon on PBS?) I think not. When my time comes I'm going to go out in high style. I have no intention of being sick or lingering or dragging on and on and boring everyone I know.

Someday I'd be classy if it killed me—probably not today, though.

The marks of this style are weight and clarity of argument, sudden turns of generalization and genial paradox, the telling short sentence to sum a complex paragraph, and unexpected touches of personal approach to the reader, whom he always assumes to be as logical, as learned, as romantic, and as open to conviction as himself. Not that in fact he was easily open to conviction; perhaps 'open to argument' would be a truer description.

Every gal needs a great white shirt. The good news: you don't have to spend a bundle. Find one that tapers in at the waist for a sleek silhouette. Or choose one with a crisp collar, worn un-tucked, à la Audrey Hepburn, for a chic, casual look. For instant elegance, try a classic French cuff dress shirt; the required cufflinks lend built-in style.

Even a beige kind of girl could wear red sometimes.

The ideal of musicality belongs to the stylistic layer of Symbolism, for music in literature is a function of language, of style. It is the stylistic element which is the most deeply rooted in the aesthetics and value-hierarchy of the Symbolist movement, and one which graphically illustrates the interrelatedness of ideas and of style, and the possibility of expressing ideas through the medium of art.

When I see you plodding along through the rain in dull, drab mackintoshes, with your noses tucked into your collars, I long to offer you a little advice. It is this: fight the weather with contrasts ... You must create an artificial sun to replace the one who has hidden himself. So why not a brighter note in your dress instead of the eternal grey, black, brown or navy?

Every collection that I work on, I always think, Is this cool enough to wear to a concert?

Create your own style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

You either know fashion or you don't.

If you can't be better than your competition, just dress better.

If you can't be better than your competition, just dress better

Despite being raised in a working-class family, she has always had an innate elegance and an eye for quality.

What happens when we accept that style, mediated through yet detached from a racial referent, may not be simply the excess or the opposite of ontology but may in fact be a precondition for embodiment, an insight that challenges the very foundation of the category of the human? What is at stake here is not just the objectification of people but also how that objectification opens up a constitutive estrangement within the articulation of proper personhood.