Quote of the day: Essie Weingarten
“If the colour fits, wear it”
Essie founder, Essie Weingarten on Into The Gloss
I loved reading Weingarden’s soundbites and stories. Did you know you should wait two minutes between each coat of nail polish? Me neither. She also had this observation of European beauty consumers; “In Europe, as far as color is concerned, women are a little more sophisticated. They like a lot of green.” Er, what did I just post about three days ago? Oh yeah, Estee Lauder’s new green-black polish. Essie has nail colours that are still going strong since the very early days. Bordeaux (a wine red) and Ballet Slippers (pale pink) are 31 years old and Fiesta (colour-matched to a favourite raspberry pin cushion) is 30 years old. Read here for more.
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Quote of the day: Teresa Watts, Pearly Queen of Clapton
“On Saturday, I am attending nine different street parties ending with a fish ‘n’ chip supper and a knees-up, only to do it all over again the following three days. My mum said she is out so much over the Diamond Jubilee weekend that she is going to sleep in her pearly suit!”
Love this interview with Teresa Watts, Pearly Queen of Clapton via the Jasper Conran blog
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Quote of the day: Princess Julia
“This is the moment. It’s up to you to make it the most fabulous moment that you can have.”
Can’t get enough of Princess Julia and her fantastic soundbites on StylelikeU
Quote of the day
“To really have success and to really make it you need staying power. That’s not an accident. Those designers work at it all the time, they never stop.”
Calvin Klein on reality fashion TV, Fashionista
Quote of the day: Imran Amed
“I would have to say that my interview with Karl Lagerfeld was fun because we exchanged ponytail tips before the interview. You can’t do that with many octogenarian fashion legends…”
Imran Amed, GQ – Happy 5th anniversary Business Of Fashion!
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Quote of the day
“As much as viewers like to see the eventual winners of these shows realise their dream (at least momentarily), they love to see the losers: the untalented, the girls who lock themselves in the bathroom and cry, the ones whose hopes are wrecked. Because to see regular people fail is to feel, “My life sucks, but it doesn’t suck as bad as that guy/girl’s life sucks right now.””
Vanessa Friedman on fashion reality TV, FT
Quote of the day
“Even before I started the brand, I knocked on Versace’s door. I called him up and was like, ‘I’m in Italy, can I show up for a meeting?’ And they were like, ‘Um who are you? No we don’t work like that,’ and I said, Well I just went to Prada and I’m here,’ and eventually they were like, ‘Okay come’ and actually Brian Atwood was the accessories designer for Versace at the time, so I sat down with Brian Atwood. He was actually very nice and I showed my stuff to him and he was really impressed and they were all really supportive of what I did. You make ballsy moves all the time, but in the beginning, when there’s nothing, you really have to put your foot in the door.”
Rem D Koolhass, creative director of United Nude, Fashionista.com
Quote of the day
“Most of the young people today look dreadful. And celebrities look even worse.”
Stern words from Iris Apfel, whose make-up range for MAC launches in January
Quote of the day
“Kim Kardashian is real. That’s what girls look like today. It’s a very huge, cultural part of what is going on, and the ‘Real Housewives of Atlanta’, it’s a very big part of what we’re seeing…as important as Lady Gaga is to a 15-year-old. So all of these things, I take in. I’m not a snob going, ‘What’s that?’ because that is real. And that is how women want to look. It’s a very important style statement, and that will go into my library of style and I will take that somewhere.”
Uber-hair stylist Guido Palau on the Kim Kardashian effect
