Quotes About Style

Oh! do look at Miss Oriel's bonnet the next time you see her. I cannot understand why it should be so, but I am sure of this—no English fingers could put together such a bonnet as that; and I am nearly sure that no French fingers could do it in England.

Young people of rank ought to wear nice things

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A good style must, first of all, be clear.

It's important for an artist to realize his own style. Copying or letting yourself be influenced by another's work is good for a start, just don't let yourself get stuck with it. Try to evolve and develop your own. Broadening your knowledge in other mediums is important in acquiring inspiration.

Um homem sem barba - desculpe, meu caro rapaz - nunca parece bem vestido, é o que minha esposa diz.

She wore amethyst-purple woolen slacks paired with a bright yellow leather jacket, like a human being hoping to become an iris.

Knowing who you really are and dressing the part -- with an air of amused recklessness -- is life affirming for you and life enhancing for other people.

All over America, people are making kamikaze choices about what to wear. They are misrepresenting the goods. They are letting their clothes write checks that their personalities cannot cash.

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By taking the time and making the effort to look his best, he feeds both his spirit and the spirits of those who see him. It's thoughtful. Make yourself a work of art. Express your creativity and dress with style. Style your hair and makeup with care and pizazz. Present yourself to the world as beautifully as you can to feed your spirit and the spirit of others.

For years now I've kind of operated under an informal shopping cycle. A bit like a farmer's crop rotation system. Except, instead of wheat, maize, barley, and fallow, mine pretty much goes clothes, makeup shoes, and clothes (I don't bother with fallow). Shopping is actually very similar to farming a field. You can't keep buying the same thing, you have to have a bit of variety. Otherwise you get bored and stop enjoying yourself.

So I buy it. The most perfect little cardigan in the world. People will call me the Girl in the Gray Cardigan. I'll be able to live in it. Really, it's an investment.

You need some accessories. Some businesswoman-type accessories." "Like what? A Filofax?

What is it about shoes? I mean, I like most kinds of clothes, but a good pair of shoes can just reduce me to jelly. Sometimes, when Suze isn't at home, I open my wardrobe and just stare at all my pairs of shoes, like some mad collector. And once I lined them all up on my bed and took a photograph of them. Which might seem a bit weird—but I thought, I've got loads of photos of people I don't really like, so why not take one of something I really love?

adventurous as a pair of elasticated beige trousers

Like today, she's wearing an orange chiffony shirt over a pair of white cotton trousers, espadrilles, and a big wooden necklace, the kind I could never wear in a million years.

Fashion is a dangerous road to go down. Anybody who is going to have children later in life had best not be too fashionable because the photos will come back to haunt them.

It is in writing of the emotions that style becomes most individual, in moments of passion, betrayal, of life and death.

I have come to see that an artist is not given a form - a style - but his nature merely gives him the ingredients wherewith to shape an equation of life.

In my everyday life, I'm a jeans and button-up shirt kind of guy.

In another life, I could be a personal shopper.

The life of the city cat is short but so sophisticated.

My style icon really for my whole life has been my mother.