Maureen Dowd Quotes

I really love to resurrect pieces from my past collections and wear them to fashion week parties.

I love fashion! I love clothes! I really like vintage clothes, so in my closet there's a lot of '50s stuff. I go to the stores and shop around.

I love a vintage look that's also a bit rock n' roll.

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

I love anything vintage. And I love Marc Jacobs and shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti.

Figuring out what to wear is much easier if you first think about what effect you want to create.

I love dressing Mason more than dressing myself. It's so much fun picking out his clothes and making outfits and giving him style.

It is tricky because I do wear a lot of vintage on the red carpet, and usually when I'm getting ready, I'll say, 'We need to make sure that I don't look like I'm in a Scorsese film today.' Sometimes I do something a little bit more modern with my hair. You have to mix it up.

I love wearing things that come with a story.

My personal style is a big mix. A lot of it's pretty vintage. I love vintage looks. I'm obsessed with the mid '60s era, even '70s, it was a good era for clothes, hair, music, and cars.

Well, when I was fifteen years old I worked in a lingerie store and that's how I feel in love with vintage lingerie because I wanted to know the history of it.

The way we dress on 'Mad Men' is so associated with old photographs, with people's parents and grandparents.

Some of my favorite pieces are from thrift shops. When I find something I really love, I live, work and sleep in it.

I don't think I've got an innate sense of style, but I guess I'm influenced by those I love and admire. You hope that you combine those influences in a way that becomes your own.

I love little Peter Pan collars and little puff sleeves.

I love a blouse that's dumb. I love to use the word 'dumb.' It's not knowing, and the word 'blouse' is so out of fashion that I love it - 'a blouse that's dumb.'

I love the big, like, basketball sweats... and I only wear vintage T-shirts to bed, because I like the super-thin ones.

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.

There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older.

My style is a mashup of different eras, but each piece I have makes me feel good about myself. I do have a taste for expensive shoes.

But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.

I get quite excited about things other people have worn. I went through a phase as a student when I wore a lot of 1940s tea dresses.

I grew up in the '90s, so I've definitely resurrected many looks from my youth lately, including overalls, jelly shoes, and, of course, Doc Martens.

I love vintage and I shop vintage a lot because it's just such great value for money.

I try to be classic without being mumsy.