William Shenstone Quotes

The point is to know how to use the colours, the choice of which is, when all's said and done, a matter of habit.

Red, electric blue - the only color I don't wear is green, which I still don't wear. I wear certain color greens, but I have such yellow skin so I always like to wear bold colors.

If you've gotta follow a fashion, pick a good fashion, I say, yes.

I want my outfit to match my mood.

Be able to tell whether garments that look good on the hanger actually look good on you.

But if fashion were easy, wouldn't everybody look great?

Fit is everything. I don't care what your body type is like: If you're not wearing clothes that fit you, you can't have style.

In my own life, when I'm not working, I do wear a lot of black. I think I do feel very comfortable in black.

Yes, but more than being a designer, I'm more of a stylist, because I don't sew and I don't sketch, but I'm good at putting things together, choosing things that are chic and glossing over the aesthetics of things.

I just love the color purple on me, because it goes really well with my eye color.

I was wearing black clothes almost from the beginning. I feel comfortable in black. I felt like black looked good onstage, that it was attractive, so I started wearing it all the time.

I think that if you're lucky enough to work with a stylist who pulls a rack from the beginning that you love everything on it, that's a blessing.

Dress for your body type and not your age.

As a little girl in the '50s, I couldn't wear a purple-and-white flowered skirt with a red blouse - those colors were too loud. My parents were not into that 'We are Negros that wear all beige,' but there was a line you could walk over that could signal vulgar, crass, rather than clever use of color. And that outfit crossed over the line.

I went to NYU, and so I started to wake up to the fashion world when I got to New York. I mean, my fashion sensibilities were horrible; I experimented with some bad colors.

Color is everything. When color is right, form is right.

I believe that accessories should bring color and texture to an every day wardrobe based on each individual's sense of style.

In the end, color combinations come down to our personal preferences, which we must discover through observation and experiment.

Most of the time I dress depending on my mood. I just throw on whatever I feel like wearing at the time, which tends to come from the palette of black, grey or red.

I find color schemes that I just like and that just feel right.

Think pink, but don't wear it.

You should be thankful that dark colors suit you. Not everyone wears black well." "Why, Lady Olivia, is that a compliment?" "Not so much as a compliment to you as an insult to everyone else," she assured him. "Thanks heaven for that. I don't think I would know how to conduct myself in a world in which you offered compliments.

Wear it if it clashes.

Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors.

I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.