Quotes About Style

I'm a traditionalist with suits. It doesn't need extra pockets, and I don't want headphone jacks in my jacket. I appreciate designers who do different things, but for me, the most basic version of that item is what I want.

I've had lots of ideas. For example, I had the idea of making a small version of the Vatican's dome. I also got ideas from medieval castles - I've mixed medieval castles with the Romanesque style.

I took pride in being the best dressed monster in Dade County.

Deborah's little house was lavishly decorated in I-have-no-life modern.

His level of sophistication didn't jive with Slam," said Tony Gervino, the magazine's editor. "He wasn't particularly cool; he was very polished. Slam was never polished. We were the opposite of polished.

Luce even analyzed my prose style to see if I wrote in a linear, masculine way, or in a circular, feminine one.

pulled out a blue bandanna

Like the Sun Belt or the Bible Belt, there exists, on this multifarious earth of ours, a Hair Belt.

The shot that won me over completely was of Coco clad in a pleated army-green skirt, with a matching military sweater, a tiny strand of pearls, a beanie, and wild-print knee socks, all by Gucci: it's like my id and my Girl Scout uniform hooked up in a fitting room at Bergdorf's.

If it's comfortable it's not feminist - unless of course we're talking about shoes.

So I've been sexy all these years? Why hasn't anybody noticed?" "Because you dress like you hate your body," Cal said. "Sexy is in your head and you don't feel sexy so you don't look it.

Jo thought sometimes that Bethie liked to play at being a rebel, when the truth was that her sister had a genius for conformity, for making herself the best, most stylish example of whatever version of femininity was currently in fashion.

a white headband in her curled and sprayed hair.

blousy white top with dolman sleeves

Tie Society, a start-up in Washington, D.C., stocks more than 300 designer ties—each of which, if bought, would cost an arm and a leg. For a monthly fee of $11, subscribers receive a box of sanitized ties to use, and they can change their tie selection monthly.

Being out in a boat on the river Lea, especially on Saturday afternoons, soon makes you smart at handling a craft, and spry at escaping being run down by roughs or swamped by barges; ... But it does not give you style. It was not till I came to the Thames that I got style. My style of rowing is much admired now. People say it is so quaint.

the less taste a person has in dress, the more obstinate he always seems to be. 

You didn't have time to prepare the rhyming good-bye poem done in the style of Dr. Seuss? I do not like to basket weave. / I do not like when Sabin leaves. / I do not like—

The look I was going for was sexy but saved. Come hither but leave room for the Lord.

The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace. Style and personality are irrelevant. They can be formal or casual. They can be tall or short or fat or thin. They can obey the rules or break them. But they need to contain a charge. A live current, which shocks and illuminates.

The camera slung around his neck...was the only complicated thing he wore.

The more I work in fashion, the less I dress up. The first pair of jeans I made was for my own body-my "strange body," as I call it.

It's nice when you work with someone who has an eye for clothes and will show what you've given them.

What I like about eyewear is that it can work with a lot of different looks. You can wear it with a Balenciaga dress, or something that is straight and very quirky.