Style Guidance Quotes

I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.

Remember, the fit of your outfit can make or break your look. Ensure the fit is perfect, and you will be just fine.

Above all, avoid the Indiana Jones fedora. It's very yesterday, and if you wear a black one, you might be mistaken for an Orthodox Jew.

I would love [to learn more about fashion] - anything that's going to help me put certain looks together.

When I talk to young girls about clothes, I tell them to show a lot of brains.

Even if your bosoms are your best asset, deep round-neck or scoop-neck Ts can be too revealing. Offset this flash of gorgeousness by covering up your arms with a little cardi that has sleeves to the elbow.

I have an amazing stylist; she's called Rebecca Corbin Murray... I go around to her living room, and it's sort of exploding with dresses, and we go through them all, and she's so good at picking things she knows I'll like, and we work together. She's taught me absolutely everything; she's brilliant.

Just because you can wear a micro-miniskirt it doesn't mean you should. You don't need to show your midriff, either, if you're over 40.

Most women don't want to take the time to figure out their style. It's okay to experiment a little bit, but don't get too far from what looks good on you.

A man can - and should - spend hours trying on jeans and finding the cut for your body type.

If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it, because you'll never look good.

Just because a suit fits, doesn't mean it looks good. You need a tailor. You want to get bespoke.

I have a few friends who are amazing stylists, so I owe them a lot.

Dress for your body type and not your age.

There's really nobody who taught me how to dress.

You can't let fashion tell you what to do. If it doesn't look good on you you're better off without it.

I definitely had to take a lot of direction from stylists and make up artists and hair stylists, because I'm very much more of a sweat pants and sneakers kind of girl.

She'll really tell me [what she thinks]. Like today I'm wearing brown suede pants, and she said, 'I don't like your pants.' But then she'll say, 'You've got to wear these shoes.' Or 'That's so pretty, Mom. Wear that.' She's got a great eye.

Seventy per cent of the clothes you own should be meat and potatoes. Thirty per cent should be icing and fluff - that's colour, pattern, shine, accessories. Too many women get the proportions the other way round, then can't figure out why they can't get dressed.

You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance.

Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it; nor at any time in the extremes of it.

It's not a good idea to match your shoes with a bag too stringently. Go for subtle similarity.

Even if you live in a tiny village, there's an Internet site. It's quite easy to find clothes, but sometimes women don't know how to mix them.

Never go anywhere you have to wear brown shoes.

I don't have memorabilia but try to take a bit of wardrobe, usually because they dress me better than I dress myself.