Quotes About Style

I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed.

Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.

Is there anyone who really believes that we could be 'post racial' in a culture that fetishizes black athletes, equates black style with rebelliousness, pillages indigenous belief systems for pithy profundities to satisfy the spiritual cravings of secular materialists, and then depends on cheap immigrant labor, redlining, and mass incarceration to safeguard class hierarchies that are obviously racialized?

The seventeenth of March. In other words, spring. Desmond, people who think themselves smart, I mean those in the height of fashion, women or men - can they afford to wait any longer before buying their spring wardrobes?

His jacket was a little too large and his choice of tie made you think he didn't have a wife at home, at least not a fully sighted one.

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.

The man who is thus outside the confines of every value-combination, and has become the exclusive representative of an individual value, is metaphysically an outcast, for his autonomy presupposes the resolution and disintegration of all system into its individual elements; such a man is liberated from values and from style, and can be influenced only by the irrational.

Her elegance was in the abstract; in her gait, in her posture, even in how she breathed.

Being a well-dressed man is a career, and he who goes in for it has no time for anything else.

an elegant woman, with a refinement that makes mere prettiness seem redundant.

The prose," Robespierre said. "It's so clean, no conceits, no show, no wit. He means every word. Formerly, you see, he meant every other word. That was his style.

The main thing is, the constraints have come off style. What we are saying now is that the Revolution does not proceed in a pitiless, forward direction, its politics and its language becoming ever more gross and simplistic: the Revolution is always flexible, subtle, elegant.

When it was time to write, and he took his pen in his hand, he never thought of consequences; he thought of style. I wonder why I ever bothered with sex, he thought; there's nothing in this breathing world so gratifying as an artfully placed semicolon.

Maxi dresses are also my best friend. They take me from my morning coffee, to the beach, to nighttime.

I'm one of those people who thinks that changing one's hair is the only part of the body that you can change at will.

There are people who have no talent for happiness and who know this with painful, implacable clarity. Such people don't seek happiness, merely to bring some sort of form and style to their unhappiness.

Sunt oameni c?rora le lipse?te orice aptitudine pentru fericire ?i î?i dau seama de asta cu o luciditate dureroas? ?i necru??toare. Asemenea oameni nu urm?resc fericirea, ei urm?resc sa dea o oarecare form? ?i pu?in stil nenorocirii lor.

In New York City, you can walk down the street and see a girl in a trench who looks equally as cool as a girl wearing Lululemon. It's like you're watching models. You see a little of everything right by you.

Would an Evil Overlord drink the last cup of coffee in the pot? Which book would an Evil Overlord take out from the library? Was dressing in all black a definite Evil Overlord move, or a legitimate choice on laundry day?

Fix your hair,' she says, then shrugs again. 'Or make it wilder. You look lovely either way.