“ A new dress doesn’t get you anywhere. It is the life you are leading in the dress, and the sort of life that you have lived before and what you did later. ”
- Diane Vreeland, The Eye Has to Travel
“ Keep your chin up and your skirt down. ”
- Sage words of advice from How to be a Hepburn in a Hilton World
“ No matter how old you get, THAT girl is always in there. ”
- The Gospel According to Chanel by Karen Karbo
“ If you come and ask me, “I want to become chic,” there is little hope to become chic. ”
- Karl Lagerfeld interviewing himself, answering “How does a woman become chic?”
“ I have no idea the secret of our success.
It’s no secret. The only secret is work, uh? Get your act together… how much you want to do what you do… but, don’t complain. Don’t think you’re a victim of the system. ”
- Karl Lagerfeld interviewing himself for Net-A-Porter
“ “What is your idea of a perfect day?”
“Every day should be perfect. It is up to you to make the day perfect. If it is not a perfect day, it is a very sad thing because a day only has 24 hours. And how will be the next day? It is up to you to make every day as perfect as possible. It is a question of will and discipline.”
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- Karl Lagerfeld interviewing himself on “the perfect day”.
“ To be nobody but yourself in a world that’s doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting. ”
“ I could easily spend the entire day engaged in gossip, which I prefer to call ‘character analysis”. ”
- Summer and the City, Candace Bushnell