Quotes About Style

Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed.

I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play.

No matter how I cut my hair, when it grows out, it will always grow out into The Bowl. I just naturally have a bowl.

I wear menswear all the time. I don't do anything to make myself look more feminine. I naturally look and am more feminine.

Francesca took a navy blue sheath from a hanger and held it up. This is darling, Gabriel. Don't you love it? You're right, I think we need to concentrate on much more feminine articles of clothing. He reached around her and fingered the soft material. Where is the rest of it? He was very serious, his dark eyes searching her face for signs she was teasing.

Have a lived life instead of a career. Put yourself in the safekeeping of good taste. Lived freedom will compensate you for a few losses. . . . If you don't like the style of others, cultivate your own. Get to know the tricks of reproduction, be a self-publisher even in conversation, and then the joy of working can fill your days.

that an article of mine was well argued but dull, and advised me briskly to write "more like the way you talk.

I've always made it a rule to have a suit for every day of the week. Perhaps you'll tell me I'm vain, but you'd be surprised if you knew what it had meant to me, at critical moments of my life, to be dressed exactly in accordance with my mood. It gives one such confidence, I think.

Cambridge exceeded our most macabre expectations ... the arm-chairs, the crumpets, the beautifully-bound eighteenth century volumes, the fires roaring in stoked grates. Each of us had the loan of an absent undergraduate's rooms - bedroom, sitting-room and pantry; all fitted up in a style which, after the spartan simplicity of a public school study, seemed positively sinful.

Style can't be denied, Lemon. That's the difference between you and me: you a slave to fashion and I'm a sultan of style.

Hoy no salir en televisión es un signo de elegancia.

You are not Proust. Do not write long sentences. If they come into your head, write them, but then break them down. Do not be afraid to repeat the subject twice, and stay away from too many pronouns and subordinate clauses.

On the white wall at the end of the room was a large oil painting of a European port, done in reds and yellows and blues. It was in slapdash modern style; the lady had painted it herself and signed it. She had given it pride of place in her main room. Yet she hadn't thought it worth the trouble of taking away.

Not even a hand-stitched suit could hide a body gone ruinously to seed. I was tempted to offer some fashion advice, but I didn't think he'd welcome the news that this year, bellies are being worn inside the trousers

Edwardian house in Worcester

Your look is visual currency.

What I'm telling you is that personal style, dressing well and caring about your clothes, is one simple way to make you feel better, to lighten the load. Why shouldn't you take advantage? Given how hard life can be, why not do the easy part?

Your closet should me you feel giddy, like you're surrounded by beauty. It should be your happy place, giving you a sense of safety and competence.

Fashions no longer trickle down, they usually bubble up from various subcultures, but contrary to what Polhemus believed, the creators of street style do not naturally evolve a pure and unchanging style, in contrast to fashion's artificial promotion of new, trendy fashions.

My happiness is measured in Inches, 2, 4, 6, 8, .... I LOVE SHOES TOO MUCH....

hue, his combed-over

After the dazzling orgies in form and color of the eighteenth century, art was put on a diet, and allowed nothing but the straight line. This sort of progress ended in ugliness. Art reduced to a skeleton, was the result. This was the advantage of this kind of wisdom and abstinence; the style was so sober that it became lean.

The provincial dandy wore the longest of spurs and the fiercest of mustaches.

He had given Cosette a dress of Binche lace that had come down to him from his own grandmother. "These fashions have come round again," he said, "old things are all the rage, and the young women of my old age dress like the old women of my childhood