Craig Brown Quotes

Audrey Hepburn, for me, was the end-all, be-all style icon.

I have an image of what a British gentleman looks like, and that image finds real expression in Prince Charles. He is beyond fashion - he is an archetype of style.

Put on a trench, you're suddenly Audrey Hepburn walking along the Seine.

Steve McQueen is my style hero. He's just cool, isn't he?

Jackie Kennedy was the most appropriately dressed first lady we've ever had. You can see how lasting Jackie's style is.

It's more fun to look at an old picture of me than it is to look at a new one sometimes. Although, I still wear a dress pretty well.

Old Hollywood glamour just seems, well, old.

My personal style icon is Steve McQueen. My design style icon is a mix of everyone from Jackie O. to Lauren Hutton to my mother.

I love Thandie Newton. I love her fashion sense as she is just really classic.

Daphne Guinness was amazingly comfortable in her skin, and she has an amazing collection in fashion that I wish I could just touch.

Police boxes, tweed blazers and bow ties feel quite English, but I think that is one of his virtues, one of the strengths of 'Doctor Who.'

Prince Charles is the best-dressed man in the world.

Christina Hendricks is still one of my favorite people to dress because she has this old Hollywood, vintage quality to how she likes to get ready.

Although I've been living in the British Virgin Islands for some time now, I have never stopped caring passionately about the U.K. and its great people.

In my personal life, I'm a huge fan of Carolina Herrera. I just think her stuff is timeless and classic.

My ultimate style pin up is a tough question because my own style is influenced by so many sources. From Bianca Jagger to Kate Moss to Julie Christie. I love how they are always themselves and it never looks too 'done.'

Fashion needs incredible women, alive, stimulating, with style like Diana Vreeland. She is the most. The way she talks expresses all her values.

Outside of my own home, England is my second home.

I just feel the traditional runway format is old-fashioned.

The British invented the classic look. Men's apparel was created in London, the great English style. You have to respect this country's suits, shirts, shoes, luggage.

Rachel Zoe is all about timeless.

I'm such an old-fashioned lady.

Timeless wearability has always appealed to me.

When I think about fashion and elegance, I imagine a woman from the 1950s, on an airplane, with seamed stockings and a garment belt underneath, a skirt, high heels, and her hair that she's done the night before, perfectly done eyeliner, lipstick, gloves, perhaps, and all this just to sit on an airplane for a transcontinental flight.

I don't have any particular person who I look up to for fashion ideas. I just admire some women for the way they dress, such as Cate Blanchett and Audrey Hepburn.