Seven quotes for a Thursday afternoon - Part fifty

"Be a first rate version of yourselfinstead of a second rate version of somebody else"
Judy Garland(1922-1969)



"Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary"
Cecil Beaton(1904-1980)



"To get back my youth I would do anything in the

Seven quotes for a Thursday afternoon - Part forty eight

"Do you want to be an artist and a writer, a wife and a lover?With kids, your focus changes.  I don't want to go to PTA meetings"
Stevie Nicks(b. 1948)



"Besides wanting to be an artist I wanted to be a movie star"
Patti Smith(b. 1946)


Photography by William GottliebBillie and her dog Mister, 1946
"There's no damn business like show business.You have to smile to keep from throwing up"

Seven quotes for a Thursday afternoon - Part forty six

Coco Chanel and Cecil Beaton, 1937
"A fashion that doesn't reach the streets, is not a fashion"
Coco Chanel(1883-1971)



"Indeed who is there that walks London streets, but can point out a half-dozen men riding by him splendidly, while he is on foot, courted by fashion, denying themselves nothing, and living on who knows what?"
William Makepeace Thackeray(1811-1863)


"Fashion is what one

Seven quotes for a Thursday afternoon - Part forty

"I feel fine and comfortable with myself,but not because I'm beautiful"
Monica Bellucci(b. 1964)




"Beauty opened all the doors;it got me things I didn't even know I wanted,and things I certainly didn't deserve"
Janice Dickinson(b. 1955)




"I have been very happy, very rich,very beautiful, much adulated,very famous and very unhappy"
Brigitte Bardot(b. 1934)




"I love Los Angeles.  I love

Seven quotes for a Thursday afternoon - Part thirty seven

"Truth is like the sun.  You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away"
Elvis Presley(1935-1977)









"The public will believe anything,so long as it is not founded on truth"
Edith Sitwell(1887-1964)




"You never find yourself, until you face the truth"
Pearl Bailey(1918-1990)



"Let a man get up and say 'Behold, this is the truth,'instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a

Seven quotes for a Thursday afternoon - Part thirty five

"The more you dress upthe more fun you'll have"
Brian Molko(b. 1972)




"I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing,it's a fashion show"
Freddie Mercury(1946-1991)



Photography by Paolo Roversi
"Dressing up.  People just don't do it anymore.We have to change that"
John Galliano(b. 1960)




Photography by Rankin
"I have a dress-up chest at home.  I love to create

Seven quotes for a Thursday afternoon - Part thirty four

"Who gossips around here?"
Bette Davis(1908-1989)





"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about"
Oscar Wilde(1854-1900)




"The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teethand sharpen my tongue"
Dorothy Parker(1893-1967)




"Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth;their measurements are being

Seven quotes for a Thursday afternoon - Part thirty three

"The only real elegance comes from the mind;if you've got that, the rest comes from it"
Diana Vreeland(1903-1989)




"One may become rich, but one is born elegant"
Honoré de Balzac(1799-1850)




"Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future"
Coco Chanel(1883-1971)



Portrait by Harcourt Studio