Merrill Markoe Quotes

It is important to be chic.

One nice thing that I have discovered about Los Angeles is the enthusiasm with which people dress.

In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.

Swanky means classy and funky.

I wasn't really a fashionable guy in high school.

Within Istanbul, there's a ton of people who are totally hip - like, the hippest people you could ever meet.

I would never stoop so low as to be fashionable.

I like women with style to wear my shoes.

The Louis Vuitton woman is more about a quality - a quality within some women that needs to come forward, to be noticed and recognised.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

To be in 'Vogue' has to mean something. It's an endorsement. It's a validation.

New York City has always had more in common with Paris or London than with Cincinnati.

We judge of entire nations by the productions of a few mechanical arts, and think we are talking of men, while we are boasting of their estates, their dress, and their palaces. The sense in which we apply the terms, great, and noble, high rank, and high life, show, that we have, on such occasions, transferred the idea of perfection from the character to the equipage; and that excellence itself is, in our esteem, a mere pageant, adorned at a great expense, by the labors of many workmen.

Polo is about the aspirational lifestyle of the sporty person, on and off the field.

If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.

When I'm in New York and L.A., I get recognized a lot more.

Fashion is guaranteed to never always be right.

I hate people thinking their city is unique, but there is a certain aura about Los Angeles; it's not necessarily a beautiful thing, but it's part of Harry Bosch.

The super-rich watch each other like envious owls, to see who's got a slightly better loafer, a pullover made from some even more absurdly endangered fur. They will go to any lengths to find the best tailors.

Fashion nowadays is all about product - bags and shoes - and you're kind of a product yourself, aren't you?

Foundations are the new Birkin bags. Everyone who is anyone has one. Giving is now chic.

I put the cult in culture.

I used to live in L.A. so, I was always outdoors.

To get recognized in New York is weird because that's definitely a place you shouldn't be recognized.

Most of our customers want something glamorous. They want to be looked at, but not for the wrong reasons.