Retro Chic Quotes

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

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.

As far as people whose style interests me, I'd say Grace Kelly, Gwen, Spice Girls, Victoria Beckham, and that nanny called Fran.

I kind of just want to look like a cool French girl in the Sixties most of the time. Or TLC.

At 14, I was beehived out. I'm glad there are no pictures!

I'd watch old movies with Judy Garland, Shirley Temple and Bette Davis and long to be part of that glamorous world. A lot of that glamour is gone now. In my own small way, I hope I'm bringing some of it back. But it would be great if I could inspire women to dress up.

My two style icons are Edie Sedgwick and Brigitte Bardot.

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.

I had holes in my jeans well before it was fashionable.

I think I'm one of the few people who have experienced New Jersey becoming fashionable twice in a lifetime.

What I did not want to be was a fad, because fads die. I had one of the George Michael Wham! neon-colored sweatshirts, and I thought it would never go out of style. Fads die.

My grandmother wore a beehive hairdo even when it was out of fashion.

I'd say I play on old world couture as opposed to modern day bridal; there's something very timeless and appealing in that.

I made my statement... I had my foot in the '90s.

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.

When I saw 'Breakfast at Tiffany's,' and Audrey Hepburn was standing in front of Tiffany's in this Givenchy dress, or when I saw 'All About Eve,' I thought that period was just fabulous. I mean, who would not want to walk down the stairs with their hands in their pockets, and say, 'Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy ride.'

I'm heavily influenced by the Nineties - I love juxtaposing a slip dress with trainers and a vintage leather jacket.

I would describe my personal style as putting Twiggy and Yoko Ono together. It is hobo with no rules.

I love fashion from the 1930s and '40s - shoulder pads, high waists, things with structure. That is classy for me. Andrea Riseborough from the Madonna movie 'W.E.' had an amazing wardrobe.

It's like the mod thing is happening again.

I really like the bohemian look, and I'm a great fan of mixing vintage and modern.

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

I hated the '80s for years, and now I look back and think, actually, there was something really cool about it.

I always felt it was weird, that retro thing where guys showed up in zoot suits and tried to talk as if they were from some other time.

Old Hollywood glamour just seems, well, old.