The Quote Thread! Do you have any favorite quotes about style?

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rosee

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"A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to prove you're a lady."
- Edith Head

14 years ago

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rosee

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(I did a search and found this one MaryK posted a month ago)

“Buy the best, and you only cry once."
- Miles Redd

14 years ago

Ornella

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"Every girl should be two things: classy and fabulous"
- Coco Chanel

14 years ago

Nadya

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"Elegance is refusal" Coco Chanel, later used by Diana Vreeland. (I had remembered this as "fashion is denial" but when Googling to get the right author found I had it wrong! The principal is the same, though.)

"I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being perfectly well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.". Ralph Waldo Emerson

This one makes me feel guilty, as I am a religious person, but same days it's just plain true for me

14 years ago

Anonymous

“I’m a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because it’s valuable. My husband used to say I look at a piece of fabric and listen to the threads. It tells me a story. It sings me a song. I have to get a physical reaction when I buy something. A coup de foudre – a bolt of lightning. It’s fun to get knocked out that way!”

Iris Apfel

14 years ago

Irene

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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months -Oscar Wilde

Hahaha, it doesn't leave us in a good position, but I still love it!

http://www.quotationspage.com/subjects/fashion/

14 years ago

Angie

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Fashion Stylist

I love your quotes!

Mine is :

"Beauty is no guarantee for happiness. Strive instead for elegance, grace and style".

- Coco Chanel

14 years ago

rosee

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"The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It's the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows & the beauty of a woman only grows with passing years."
- Audrey Hepburn

14 years ago

ButterflyLady

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'Fashions fade, style is eternal.' Yves Saint Laurent

14 years ago

Lynne

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"I have learned that the most important thing about a dress is the woman wearing it" attributed to Yves St Laurent

and

"The more you know, the less you need" from Chic Simple, cited as an Australian aboriginal saying (but could just as well have been our own brilliant Angie :D).

I haven't checked the sources on these, girls, so don't cite them without verifying!

14 years ago

MsMary

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"Leopard is a neutral." -- MaryK

Oh, and one that I saw on a little sign in the Gucci store in Rome when I was 16 (yes, it was in English), that has stuck with me ever since:

"Quality is remembered long after price is forgotten."

14 years ago

Anonymous

I know, I know about the source, but I still like this quote:

"Dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in."

Paris Hilton

14 years ago

Kari

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There are also some good quotes on this thread: http://youlookfab.com/welookfa.....ylefashion

14 years ago

Anonymous

I think this applies to style and fashion:

"You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself."

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, 18th-century English writer

14 years ago

rosee

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“Only great minds can afford a simple style.”
- Stendhal (French writer, 19th century)

14 years ago

rosee

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@Kari: thanks for the link! There are some good ones, my favorite (posted by Refugee, 6 months ago):

"Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly."
- Epictetus, Greek philosopher

14 years ago

Refugee

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That's still my favorite!

14 years ago

Lynne

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wow, Epictetus had it right!

14 years ago

MsMary

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I just saw this one over at Already Pretty:

"Style is a simple way of saying complicated things."

~Jean Cocteau

14 years ago

teri

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my email siggy....

"Whether you're a good witch or a bad witch, it's all about the shoes!"

14 years ago

Heather

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"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

-Eleanor Roosevelt

14 years ago

Refugee

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Teri, I am absolutely stealing that one!

14 years ago

Ornella

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Great ones and Stendhal's is an excellent one.

14 years ago

rosee

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“On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
- Thomas Jefferson

14 years ago

Becky

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How about this one on aging:

"I would only go back to being 21 if I could take my 50-year-old brain with me." -- Lauren Hutton (?)

14 years ago

rosee

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“I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.”
- Gilda Radner

14 years ago

Anonymous

Anything Coco said......

14 years ago

rosee

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@shabbychick: supply us with a few examples!

14 years ago

Anonymous

Well, so many of them have already been quoted! My 1st choice was going to be "Classy and fabulous"...I'm also constantly hearing her tell me to "remove one accessory before going walking out the door." I also love "In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."

14 years ago

rosee

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"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
- Mark Twain

14 years ago

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