- Le Cancre -

2012-02-13T11:17:00.001-05:00

Having everything except what you need isn't very useful.
- AC -
[Image of Whitney Houston not my own]

2012-02-12T11:17:00.000-05:00

No one cares about the icing if the cake sucks.
- AC -
[Image not my own]

2012-02-11T11:17:00.001-05:00

Look, I really don't appreciate this formality because how I'm doing is really none of your concern.
- AC -
[Image of Burberry Prorsum Shoes not my own]

2012-02-10T11:17:00.000-05:00

There's a difference between saying things because I'm a snob and saying them because they're true. For example, when I say I'm better than you...
- AC -
[Image of Prada skirt and top not my own]

2012-02-09T11:17:00.001-05:00

Don't worry, there are very few people whose opinion I take personally, you're not one of them.
- AC -
[Image of Grace Jones by Greg Gorman]

2012-02-08T11:17:00.001-05:00

I feel like I always get left behind even though most of the time, I'm the one actually leaving.
- AC -
[Image by Tommy Ton for Jak&Jil]

2012-02-07T11:17:00.001-05:00

Why can't you wear black shoes like the other mothers?
- Chocolat -
[Image of Balenciaga Shoes not my own]

2012-02-06T11:17:00.001-05:00

There are no rules.
[Image not my own]

2012-02-05T11:17:00.001-05:00

If you stand out, try to be the first one to know why.
- AC -
[Image of Anya Ziourova Celine Sweater not my own]

2012-02-04T11:17:00.003-05:00

Relax- people don't think that about you. If they know you.
- AC -
[Image from The Sartorialist]

2012-02-03T11:17:00.001-05:00

Only draw attention to the self that you most want to be.
- AC -
[Image of Catherine Baba]

2012-02-02T11:17:00.001-05:00

Great events cast their shadows before them.
[Image of Carine Roifeld by Tommy Ton for Style.com]

2012-02-01T11:17:00.001-05:00

Everyone talks of changing the world, but no one talks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy -
[Images of Marilyn Monroe]

2012-01-31T11:17:00.000-05:00

I get very frustrated with people who try to impress me with money or, even worse, with others' money.
- AC -
[Image of Hanneli Mustaparta]

2012-01-30T11:17:00.002-05:00

I don't know what you saw in me but I hope the more I let you in, the more you'll see it.
- AC -
[Image of Lanvin Homme FW12 by The Sartorialist]

2012-01-29T11:17:00.001-05:00

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.

[Image of Back Stage at YSL Men's FW2012 by The Sartorialist]

2012-01-28T11:17:00.001-05:00

A bad workman blames his tools.
[Image by Tommy Ton for Style.com]

2012-01-27T11:17:00.001-05:00

All that glistens is not gold.
- William Shakespeare -
[Image of Lanvin Homme FW12 by The Sartorialist]

2012-01-26T11:17:00.000-05:00

The question of his trustworthiness has no relevvance or significance.
- CL -
[Image by Tommy Ton for Style.com]

2012-01-25T11:17:00.000-05:00

"Come on Monkey! Just one more block!"
Isn't that a little derogatory calling our limo driver "Monkey"?
That's what I thought too but I didn't come up with it, it's what he told me to call him.
- AC -
[Image by Tommy Ton for Style.com]

2012-01-24T11:17:00.001-05:00

I'm excited at the thought of organizing the lives of disorganized people.
- AC -
[Image by Tommy Ton for Style.com]

2012-01-23T11:17:00.001-05:00

Just because you're repopulating the Earth is not a reason to let yourself go.
- AC -
[Image by Tommy Ton for Style.com]

2012-01-22T11:17:00.000-05:00

Better to have worn once and ruined than to never have worn at all.
- AC -
[Image of Catherine Baba]

2012-01-21T11:17:00.000-05:00

Can you say when will the book be completed?
I suppose when for some reason it ends.
- CL -
[Image by Tommy Ton for Style.com]

2012-01-20T11:17:00.002-05:00

If you're an ugly person stuck in a beautiful body you're humble. If you're a beautiful person stuck in an ugly body, you're crazy.
- AC -
[Image by Mariano Vivanco for Vogue Russia]

2012-01-19T11:17:00.000-05:00

I'm prevented from coming in consequence of a subsequent engagement.
- The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde -
[Image by Tommy Ton for Style.com]

2012-01-18T11:17:00.001-05:00

I don't care how I smell as long as I smell good and don't care how much I weigh as long as I'm skinny.
- AC -
[Image by Tommy Ton for Style.com]

2012-01-17T11:17:00.001-05:00

I have many skills, that's just not one of them.
- AC -
[Charlize Theron by Mario Sorrenti for W's February 2012 Issue]

2012-01-16T11:17:00.001-05:00

Sometimes it's not worth splitting two things of value up during travel because, should only one survive, they'd be useless without each other.
- AC -
[Image by Tommy Ton for Style.com]

2012-01-15T11:17:00.000-05:00

Don't pretend to hate someone just cause your friends do.
- AC -
[Image form I’m listening to Istanbul by Ara Güler]

2012-01-14T11:17:00.001-05:00

By encouraging your wife to study you would save a lot of money in the long run on your daughter's education for a child's natural teacher is its mother.
- Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert -
[Image not my own]

2012-01-13T11:17:00.003-05:00

While everyone else rose 896 feet up, I rose up almost a full foot higher. How? I changed shoes while in the elevator.
- AC -
[Image of Jac Jagaciak in Christian Dior Haute Couture SS 2008 shot by Patrick Demarchelier]

2012-01-12T11:17:00.001-05:00

Once, at a party, Issie was approached by an enthusiastic girl who knocked a glass of red wine all over Issie's brand new outfit, a white Alexandre McQueen number, completely ruining it. A few minutes later, the unfortunate girl's handbag exploded into flames. Issie had quietly dropped her lit cigarette into the girl's open bag to extract her revenge.
- From Blow by Blow - on Isabella Blow -
[Image by Sea of Shoes]

2012-01-11T11:17:00.000-05:00

One can never pay too high a price for a sensation.
- The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde -
[Image by Garance Dore]

2012-01-10T11:17:00.003-05:00

Windows in country towns are a substitute for theaters and public walks.
- Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert -
[Image from the latest issue of WAD photographed by Fred Jacobs and styled by Benoit Martinengo]

2012-01-09T11:17:00.002-05:00

I'll tell you the secret to my success but you're not gonna like it. Be beautiful, fabulous, and rich and great things will happen to you too.
- AC -
[Video of Catherine Baba by Dita Von Teese by Subversive Glamour]

2012-01-08T11:17:00.001-05:00

Say whatever you want about my clothes but know that the only reason I'm keeping my mouth shut about yours is that you might never recover from hearing the truth about what I think of your taste.
- AC -
[Image of Vanessa Paradis by Karim Sadli]

2012-01-07T11:17:00.003-05:00

I deem it very vital to do ones hair before having a phone conversation with anyone important.
- AC -
[Image from Street Etiquette]

2012-01-06T11:17:00.002-05:00

What do you mean "Where was I coming from"? I was walking north from having had walked south.
- AC -
[Image by Tommy Ton for Jak&Jil]

2012-01-05T11:17:00.001-05:00

The only artists I've ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
- The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde -
[Image of Karlie Kloss by Hedi Slimane]

2012-01-04T11:17:00.001-05:00

It's unlikely you will ever look this good.
- AC -
[Image by Roxanne Lowit]

2012-01-03T11:17:00.003-05:00

I think your underwear looks better with the waistband tucked under.
- AC -
[Image of the Proenza Schouler studios for SS12 by Tommy Ton]

2012-01-02T11:17:00.001-05:00

It’s funny—whenever someone talks about rules, I just want to break them.
- Rick Owens -

2012-01-01T11:17:00.001-05:00

What fire doesn't destroy it hardens.
- The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde -
[Image of Kendra Spears in Muse #28 by Mariano Vivanco]

2011-12-31T11:17:00.001-05:00

I don't ask you the same pointless questions as everyone because I don't care about you like everyone.
- AC -
[Image of Catherine Baba]

2011-12-30T11:17:00.000-05:00

Some say sometimes that beauty is only superficial, but at least it's not so superficial as thought is.
- The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde -
[Image of Kendra Spears in Muse #28 by Mariano Vivanco]

2011-12-29T11:17:00.001-05:00

It is when they work the least that great thinkers do the most because they are thinking of the perfect image that their hands will later execute by tracing what they visualized while in thought.

[Illustration by Gruau]

2011-12-28T11:17:00.002-05:00

The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. The more insincere the man is; the more purely intellectual will the idea be.
- The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde -
[Image of FW10 Burberry Prorsum Coat by Tommy Ton for Jak&Jil]

2011-12-27T11:17:00.001-05:00

You don't need to know why it's not there. You just need to trust that it was compromised and subsequently removed.
- AC -
[Image of Kendra Spears in Muse #28 by Mariano Vivanco]

2011-12-26T11:17:00.001-05:00

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything and people who know absolutely nothing.
- The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde -
[Image of Kendra Spears in Muse #28 by Mariano Vivanco]

2011-12-25T11:17:00.001-05:00

If you can't afford it, then find something you can, don't take it upon yourself to ruin the brand's image by getting a fake.
- AC -
[Image from The Sartorialist]

2011-12-24T11:17:00.001-05:00

I won't argue with you. It's only the intellectually lost who ever argue.
- The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde -
[Image of Balenciaga Jacket by Tommy Ton for Jak&jil]

2011-12-23T11:17:00.002-05:00

What's the point of having an office if you don't put aside a drawer for shoes?
- AC -
[Image by Tommy Ton for Jak&Jil]

2011-12-22T11:17:00.001-05:00

The secret to remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
- The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde -
[Image of Burberry Prorsum Collection by Garance Dore]

2011-12-21T11:17:00.001-05:00

Half the time I don't tell you what I'm thinking because I'm trying to figure it out as well.
- AC -
[Image of Catherine Baba]

2011-12-20T11:17:00.002-05:00

We warn people of the sins of which we've grown tired.
- The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde -
[Image of Kate Moss, Marc Jacobs, and Justin Timberlake by Annie Leibovitz for Vogue]

2011-12-19T11:17:00.002-05:00

If for Fall 2011 you're not dressed in Fall 2013, you're nobody.
- AC -
[Image by Tommy Ton for Jak&Jil]

2011-12-18T11:17:00.001-05:00

I feel that it's a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates. Art is always more abstract than we fancy. Form and color tell us of form and color and that's all.
- The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde -
[Image of the Lanvin SS12 Runway Show]

2011-12-17T11:17:00.001-05:00

I firmly believe that you will not find peace by learning new ways to fight back.
- AC -
[Image by Tommy Ton for Jak&Jil]

2011-12-16T11:17:00.001-05:00

Genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over educate ourselves.
- The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde -
[Image by Tommy Ton for Jak&Jil]

2011-12-15T11:17:00.000-05:00

Just because I move fast doesn't mean I don't want you to keep up.
- AC -
[Image of Kate Moss and Marc Jacobs]

2011-12-14T11:17:00.005-05:00

There are many things that we'd throw away if we weren't afraid that others might pick them up.
- The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde -
[Image of Burberry Prorsum Collection by Garance Dore]

2011-12-13T11:17:00.001-05:00

You have good shoes, that's probably why I trust you.
- AC -
[Image of the Lanvin SS12 Runway Show]

2011-12-12T11:17:00.001-05:00

It's only shallow people who do not judge by appearances, the true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde -
[Image by Tommy Ton for Jak&Jil]

2011-12-11T11:17:00.002-05:00

"What's your favorite thing to do?"
"Making out" was replied without hesitation. There was a pause, then elaboration - "I could live with someone else's tongue in my mouth."
- AC -
[Image not my own]

2011-12-10T11:17:00.002-05:00

I like persons better than principles and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
- The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde -
[Image of Catherine Baba]

2011-12-09T11:17:00.000-05:00

How can I not latch onto things that won't last.
- AC -
[Image of Backstage at SS12 Cushnie et Ochs Runway Show]

2011-12-08T11:17:00.002-05:00

Beauty is a form of genius. It is higher indeed than genius as it needs no explanation.
- The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde -
[Image of the Lanvin SS12 Runway Show]

2011-12-07T11:17:00.004-05:00

I wonder if you don't play too consequential of a role in your own life.
[Image of Burberry Prorsum Collection by Garance Dore]

2011-12-06T11:17:00.002-05:00

The second could never have been what it was had it not been for the first.
- AC -
[Image not my own]

2011-12-05T11:17:00.002-05:00

Just because something will happen does not mean you should resign yourself to it; I don't buy my clothes dirty though I know they will repeatedly get there.
- AC -
[Image by Garance Dore]

2011-12-04T11:17:00.002-05:00

I wonder, if most rules didn't exist, would mayhem take over or would people loose the thrill of breaking rules and simply live more cohesively?
- AC -
[Image of Chanel Iman Backstage at the Bottega Veneta SS12 Runway Show]

2011-12-03T11:17:00.002-05:00

Is this your seat? No. So unless you know for sure that this person isn't planning to show up, don't assume and take it from her.
- AC -
[Image of Burberry Prorsum Collection by Garance Dore]

2011-12-02T11:17:00.000-05:00

This idiot doesn't seem to understand that one can work tirelessly whilst doing nothing.
- AC -
[Image of Charlotte Gainsbourg]

2011-12-01T11:17:00.000-05:00

A passion for money isn't a real passion.
- AC -
[Image of Catherine Baba]

2011-11-30T11:17:00.002-05:00

The trick is knowing how to use all the tools without having to rely on them.
- AC -
[Image of Backstage at SS12 Cushnie et Ochs Runway Show]

2011-11-29T11:17:00.002-05:00

Knowing someone's favorite color is as difficult as knowing how they'll react to bribery.
- AC -
[Image of Ulyana Sergeenko by Garance Dore]

2011-11-28T11:17:00.001-05:00

You think you're so strong because you never need any help but really, it just looks like you're alone.
- AC -
[Image of Burberry Prorsum Collection by Garance Dore]

2011-11-27T11:17:00.003-05:00

Long ago we all listened to the radio and knew the same songs.
- CL -
[Image of Alexandre McQueen hat by Philip Treacy]

2011-11-26T11:17:00.001-05:00

I'm a lot more attracted by red lights than green ones.
- AC -
[Image by Richard Avedon of Sunny Harnett]

2011-11-25T11:17:00.001-05:00

I trust in animal instinct more than human instinct - this is why I generally have little faith in people who have been bitten by dogs several times.
- AC -
[Illustration not my own]

2011-11-24T11:17:00.003-05:00

Put me down. I'm not skinnier than you so you can lift me up.
- AC -
[Image of Backstage Burberry Prorsum SS12]

2011-11-23T11:17:00.002-05:00

When he suddenly vanished from sight, I thought it was some form of divine intervention. How was I to infer he had much less poetically stumbled into an open manhole?
- AC -
[Image of Milan Vukmirovic by Tommy Ton for Jak & Jil]

2011-11-22T11:17:00.002-05:00

Is anything ever really not worth trying?
- AC -
[Image not my own]

2011-11-21T11:17:00.001-05:00

Just because you like two things individually doesn't mean you'll like them together.
- AC -
[Image of Madonna & Andrea Riseborough by Tom Munro]

2011-11-20T11:17:00.001-05:00

I have legs like a rockstar. A rockstar with incredible legs.
- AC -
[Image by The Sartorialist]

2011-11-19T11:17:00.003-05:00

Bonus to being an ex - your exs will always try to look fabulous around you.
- AC -
[Illustration by Rene Gruau]

2011-11-18T11:17:00.002-05:00

You'd jump in front of a bus for me right?
It depends - how high are my heels? Because depending on that factor I might just walk hastily in your direction.
- AC -
[Image of the Burberry Prorsum Summer 2012 Runway]

2011-11-17T11:17:00.000-05:00

Don't worry about it, it's a common misconception; you think you like the jeans but what you really like is the body underneath.
- AC -
[Image of Catherine Baba]

2011-11-16T11:17:00.002-05:00

If you're protesting being poor, wouldn't the quickest way to remedy that be to getting a job instead of standing here day after day?
- AC -
[Image of Grace Coddington]

2011-11-15T11:17:00.002-05:00

If you think about the psychological dimension as it relates to the physical performance; being a male prostitute is much more demanding than being a female prostitute.
- AC -
{Naomi Campbell in Duran Duran music video]

2011-11-14T11:17:00.002-05:00

You may be more stable but I am more confident.
- AC -
[Image by Giampaolo Sgura for Antidote Magazine]

2011-11-13T11:17:00.002-05:00

You want to know if I think these road-blocks are kind of a fun adventure? They're about as fun an adventure as being forced to talk to you when I would have usually crossed the street ten minutes ago.
- AC -
[Image by Mario Testino for British Vogue]

2011-11-12T11:17:00.000-05:00

I would rather move in a tangent direction than not at all.
- AC -
[Image not my own]

2011-11-11T11:17:00.002-05:00

You two are very beautiful together. Are you sleeping together?
- AC -
[Image of Karlie Kloss for Hermes]

2011-11-10T11:17:00.001-05:00

If I am not the first one here I am late.
- from movie - Never on Sunday -
[Young Monks in India, 2001]

2011-11-09T11:17:00.003-05:00

It seems obvious to me that when asked a stupid question, I reply assuming the inquirer is, in fact, stupid.
- AC -
[Image from The Sartorialist]

2011-11-08T11:17:00.000-05:00

Prostitution is not the answer this time - especially since we're already rich anyway.
- AC -
[Image from Sea of Shoes]

2011-11-07T11:17:00.001-05:00

And whereabouts are you sitting?
(He answered)
Alright.
(She reached for his forearm, smiled, and motioned him to go back)
- AC -
[Image of Rachel Zoe]

2011-11-06T11:17:00.001-05:00

I'm just really snobby and you don't pass the preliminary test, sorry.
- AC -
[Image not my own]