Enjoy Your Style

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see Beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see Beauty never grows old.

— Frank Kafka (via fuckyeahkickassquotes)

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I once second guessed my instincts and had a stylist come over to my house and help me go through my vintage collection with me, and I remember she picked up a beautiful pair of 1930’s shoes and said “these would look SO cute with jeans” and that was the moment I realised that she knew nothing about me (I don’t even own jeans) and that I was best off staying true to my own personal style rather than let someone else tell me what is right and what is wrong, and putting her own tastes on me.

— Dita Von Teese

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While I was girl of the year and superstar and all that crap, everything I did was really…motivated by psychological disturbance. But I’d, I’d make a mask out of my face because I didn’t realize I was quite beautiful…I had to wear heavy black eyelashes like bat wings and dark lines under my eyes. Cut all my hair off, my long dark hair, cut it off and strip it silver and blond. All these little manoeuvres I did out of things that were happening in my life that upset me. I’d freak out in a very physical way, and…it was all taken in a fashion trend.

— Edie Sedgwick (this is a great read!)

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A girl doesn’t need anyone who doesn’t need her.

— Marilyn Monroe (via adayolder)

It’s lamentable, but looks matter big-time. For example, it affects how easy it is to find a good job or a good romantic partner. Looks also matter simply because you’ll feel better about yourself. No matter how many times you tell yourself, “Inner beauty is more important,” you probably won’t quite believe it.

People’s bias toward attractive people is not caused just by the media deifying the beautiful people. Studies of infants show that they are more likely to reach for a doll with a pretty face. People have extolled beautiful faces and bodies since recorded time began—ancient Egypt, for example, so it is unlikely that you or society will devalue looks soon.

So, it’s wise to take care of your looks.

— Marty Nemko, taking it to the hoop.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

— Demosthenes

This is what makes Gaga so popular: her act seduces and flatters her followers, reassures them of their edginess and offers them self-love––even a peak experience––even, vicariously, fame––for the price of a lipstick, a compact disc or a concert ticket. Put another way, her little monsters––the real product––are sold to various retailers (iTunes, Ticketmaster, t-shirt companies) by her persona. In some oblique way, the Lady Gaga persona analyzes this relationship. What does that change, especially when the analysis is so anodyne?

— Lady Gaga: A Dissenting Opinion

Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

— Lester Bangs (via nemoalius)

I love Halloween. The one time of year when everyone wears a mask… not just me. People think it’s fun to pretend you’re a monster. Me, I spend my life pretending I’m not. Brother, friend, boyfriend - All part of my costume collection. Some people might call me a fraud. Let’s see if it will fit. I prefer to think of myself as a master of disguise.

— Dexter Morgan (via purple-point)

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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson (via thetaoofdana)