Emilia Wickstead Quotes

I like old movies, screwball comedies, vintage clothes, and basically I'm an old-fashioned gal.

I have eclectic taste, and I love vintage style mixed with glamour and old world charm.

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.

Vintage never fits the way you think it will.

European style is classic, with its own color, and to me, it always feels chic.

I've always liked higher necklines, and Mia Farrow is my ultimate inspiration. The baby-doll dresses with big Peter Pan collars that she wore in 'Rosemary's Baby' were iconic. I've been drawn to similar looks ever since.

For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion. Fashions come and go, but style is forever.

The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.

I am more vintage than I am high fashion.

It's interesting for me because in my work, a lot of times, I like to scrutinize the clothes and think what's going to make them look dated, and I do the same with vintage. In vintage, you want something unique and different, but at the same time, something that doesn't make you look like you dress like a grandpa.

I only aim for fashion that's long dead.

Matching shoes and bags immediately age you by 10 years.

I really like the retro look. My regular clothing, I like to always keep it classy and I like to kind of be more dressed up more of the time. I'm not really someone you see in sweatpants a lot.

There's nothing classic about what's around now. I am a bit old-school. There are some things that are never out of fashion because they just look good. But if you want classic style these days you have to get it made.

My style is quite clean, vintage, and almost French in a way.

I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesn't date.

Designing my shoes, I'm thinking timeless. Not trendy.

I got my first Charvet knit tie when I was 15. I actually stole it from my father. I love them because you can wear them day to night. They're French and preppy and have been around since the 1800s.

One favourite find of mine has to be a 1980s black dinner jacket that I wear as a dress.

There are some things that are never out of fashion because they just look good. But if you want classic style these days you have to get it made.

I'm not too big on accessories, but I love my basic black quartz watch from American Apparel. It's a simple piece that goes with my vintage, thrift store chic style.

Alan Whicker may be the last Briton to have worn a silver-buttoned blazer with complete confidence.

It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new.

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.

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