Lily Collins Quotes

Oh, both my shoes are shiny new, And pristine is my hat My dress is 1922… My life is all like that.

I am somebody who has never been able to give up '60s habits. I am the inevitable old codger on the dance floor.

Anytime someone says we're channelling 1960s, I'm like, I'm in, I love it.

I quite fancy the 1940s. I like the trams and the trousers.

I'm really fascinated with anything that takes place between the 1920s up through the 1960s. In some ways it feels familiar, and in other ways it feels like it's from another planet.

My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic.

I tend to look out for things with a resonance to my youth - artists or objects that seemed romantic all those years ago. I never buy anything purely for its value. I like possessions that smile back at me.

I love to shop, especially in retro stores. I have about a million pairs of old-school sports shoes like Adidas, so that's probably my biggest vice.

And I guess I have a face and a look that sort of lends itself to period costume!

It's like the mod thing is happening again.

The clothes chosen for me as a child had a strong element of the Pre-Raphaelite, muted greens and ivories, dusty rose, what seems in retrospect an eccentric amount of black.

I'm a little bit out of it, I suppose; I'm more of the golden oldie type.

Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.

I have a collection of impractical vintage dresses and jackets. I guess I never grew out of the 'playing dress up' faze. It's actually a bit of a problem.

I spent my teens and early 20s shopping almost exclusively at thrift stores.

I always felt like I was born in the wrong time period. I felt like I should've been born in the mid-to-late '40s.

I used to wear Clark Kent glasses, ever since I was in college. I used to have those Army-issue glasses, and they used to be those black glasses Clark Kent used to wear. And I wore those for years.

I'm attracted to the past.

I remember, when I was a kid in the '70s and '80s, the '50s were really cool. And then the '60s were really cool. And then the '70s.

I've always sort of felt like I was from another time. The '70s is more my vibe. The clothes fit me better.

I always felt it was weird, that retro thing where guys showed up in zoot suits and tried to talk as if they were from some other time.

Everyone looks cool in the '90s.

I love seeing fashion from the past making a comeback.

I wasn't born in the wrong decade.

I made my statement... I had my foot in the '90s.