Candace Bushnell Quotes

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings.

Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.

I tend to like antique things. Something can be old, but it can be timeless.

I'm the kind of person who would have liked to have lived at the Plaza. I love crystal chandeliers and gold leaf, velvets and mirrors, Oriental rugs and marble.

I love to put on diamonds and beautiful evening gowns and make my girl-friends upset.

I'm never going to be a modern gal. I love colonial. I love early American. I love a big rectangular piece of brown furniture on a hardwood floor.

Sepia in particular tends to make everything look a bit romantic and almost sentimental, hence the fact that it remains such a popular choice for wedding photographs.

I love black diamonds. They say your watch or jewelry wasn't cheap, but they aren't too flashy and in your face.

I think diamonds represent luxury, indulgence, and class. So any time you can incorporate a gift that is synonymous with all those attributes, you know the other person will love it. I would challenge someone to find something that better represents Valentine's Day more than diamonds!

I'm an old-timey gal.

I think jewelry is beautiful on all women and I think it's sentimental - and Disney is sentimental. It's subtle and it's low-key and it's just a sweet reminder of sweetness.

H. Schwarzenbach is a very traditional place. The store opened in the late 1800s, importing specialty items from all over the world. It was curated before we even used that word.

I love history... everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.

Vintage is my vocabulary... like the notes of a musician.

One of the things that attracts me to vintage and antique things is they have stories, and even if I don't know the stories, I make them up.

Old things are better than new things, because they've got stories in them, Ethan.

I think that's something that always enticed me about the '40s - back then, the glamour and the style - you couldn't really make it up. You just were or you weren't. You either fit in that world or you fit in the other. Things were very cut and dry. Things were simple. There wasn't a whole lot of excess or flash to be flashy; it was real flash, and real excitement.

I've always loved people that's been around for a long time, like old shoes.

I personally think that a bouquet of white roses is simple, chic, and surprisingly long-lasting.

I think the saying that diamonds are a girl's best friend can't be truer. Which girl doesn't love diamonds?

My aesthetic is I love anything in the late 1800s, early 1900s.

There's no need to go the full hog - a touch of subtle sequins will lift any outfit.

I love how easy pearls are to wear with anything and everything.

The idea of creating a quote-unquote 'retro' world isn't all that appealing to me by itself.