Over-Accessorizing Quotes

If you do a smoky eye, chances are you will not want to do a strong lip as well. It's never good to gild the lily.

My personal style is over-the-top dowager. The old days they said get dressed and take one thing off, I say get dressed and put one thing on.

It is always better to be slightly underdressed.

Spare me the carefully thought out accessorising that is supposed to look casually thrown on, while in actuality, hours have been spent on the picking and choosing of said jewellery, scarves, etc. Unless you are Keith Richards and can absolutely pull it off, less is more.

I have calmed down my look. Is it really necessary to wear all that jewelry and makeup at 7 A.M.? When you're tired, you start to over-compensate by wearing too much bling.

One of the biggest problems with young chefs is too much addition to the plate. You put cilantro and then tarragon and then olive oil and then walnut oil or whatever. It's too much.

On the whole, I think women wear too much and are to fussy. You can't see the person for all the clutter.

Everybody has to put purees underneath everything now. It's like people think we need the steak, and then we need some baby food with it.

Being trendy is alright, but clubbing all the trends in one look is a complete no.

You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree.

I'm not a fan of underdressing, I think it's better to be overdressed than underdressed.

I hate it when people match their clothes, shoes and accessories.

One of the mistakes they often make is the designers over-accessorize or over-elaborate. So you realize: this would work if they removed X and Y. And actually, that's the sort of thing that translates into writing, because a lot of the time you realize, I feel I need to add something here but actually what I need to do is subtract. And then there's always the psychodrama and the tears and the rage and the feuds.

So my advice is to always choose something simpler - an expressive outfit, plus a hat, can be frightening.

I feel it is obvious when someone has thought too much about what they're wearing.