Quote of the Week 1/30/12

"The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation."
-Michelle Obama

Quote of the Week 1/24/12

"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best." - Oscar Wilde

*Mario Testino captures Taylor Swift wearing seventies-inspired pieces from Rodarte's Spring/Summer 2012 collection for Vogue February 2012.

Quote of the Week 1/16/12

‎"Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase." -Martin Luther King, Jr.

For a clip of Mr. King's famous speech, I Have A Dream, click here.

Quote of the Week 1/3/12

"I don’t want to do anything over again, ever again. I want only to do what I haven’t done." - Karl Lagerfeld.

Quote of the Week 12/21/11

"Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together."
-Elizabeth Taylor

Quote of the Week 12/7/11

“I’ve always believed one could live many lives through the way we dress and the places we travel to, even if just in our imagination. The world is open to us, and each day is an occasion to reinvent ourselves.”
—Ralph Lauren

Quote of the Week 11/20/11

"People respond well to those that are sure of what they want."
— Anna Wintour

Quote of the Week 11/13/11

"The thing about new beginnings, is that they require something else to end." -Gossip Girl

Quote of the Week 11/1/11

"Through my work, I became the woman I wanted to be." - Diane Von Furstenberg, Designer

Quote of the Week 10/23/11

"I don't design clothes, I design dreams." -Ralph Lauren

Quote of the Week 10/15/11

"If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased." -Katherine Hepburn, Actress

Photo: Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn - Vogue by Annie Leibovitz, December 2004

Quote of the Week 9/26/11

Quote of the Week 9/19/11

"Good is the greatest enemy of great." - Glenda Bailey, editor in chief of Harper's Bazaar US.

Photo: Lindsey Wixson wears a look from Proenza Schouler's Fall 2011 collection to mow the lawn in the new Harper's Bazaar US. Photograph by Terry Richardson.

Quote of the Week 9/2/11

"Fashion is the most powerful art there is. It’s movement, design and architecture all in one. It shows the world who we are and who we’d like to be." -Blair Waldorf, Gossip Girl

Quote of the Week 8/28/11

Quote of the Week 8/16/11

"You live but once; you might as well be amusing." - Coco Chanel

Photography of Kate Moss' wedding by Mario Testino for US Vogue's September 2011 issue.

Quote of the Week 8/7

"You can never be overdressed or overeducated." — Oscar Wilde

Quote of the Week 7/24

“I think elegance is something that you cannot put in a shopping bag. You cannot give your credit card and get elegance. You either have it or you don’t and it’s not about what you wear and it’s not about how you wear but it’s more about who you are. So for me elegance has to do with personality, not at all about the clothes that you wear.” — Alber Elbaz, fashion designer.

Quote of the Week 7/20

"I like people who have a sense of individuality. I love expression and anything awkward and imperfect, because that’s natural and that’s real."
— Marc Jacobs

Photographs of Elle Fanning by Juergen Teller for Marc by Marc Jacobs Fall 2011 Campaign.

Quote of the Week 6/18

"A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant." -Coco Chanel

Images courtesy of Chanel as shot by Karl Lagerfeld.