Word Up: Top Ten Fashtastic Quotes

It's Monday, we're feeling gloomy and we're in need of a little start of the week pick me up. If you're in the same boat, we prescribe an extra shot in your morning coffee, a sneaky lunchtime shopping spree (make that an e-spree if you're eating al desko) and a large Hendricks and tonic in front of something very good on the TV this evening. In the meantime, here are our ten fav fashion soundbites for your Monday enjoyment... 

May this week be full of friends, cocktails and fabulous outfits!

x

The Mice

Remembering an Icon : Audrey Hepburn

Elegant, elfin, icon, timeless, brows, natural beauty are just a few words that spring to mind when I remember Audrey Hepburn. Twenty one years ago today, Hepburn passed, leaving us with a timeless bank of mesmerising memories from her endearing performance in Breakfast at Tiffany's, to her lifelong love and talent for rocking Givenchy with such style and class and her signature cat-eyes sunglasses.

Lets remember and celebrate Audrey Hepburn, the icon.

Remembering An Icon: Coco Chanel...

130 years ago today, Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel arrived into the world. Little did anyone know back then the revolutionary impact she would have on fashion around the world and the incredible legacy she would leave behind. 

An icon for many reasons - her brunette bob and cherry red lips, the LBD, tweed twin sets, two-toned ballet pumps, oversized costume pearls, outspoken manner, quilted chained bag, Chanel No. 5 - the list is fabulously endless.

Bring out your inner Coco today by casting an eye over our favourite Chanel quotes and some beautiful photographs of the woman who perfectly encapsulated stylish elegance - long live Chanel...

 

"A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous."

- Coco Chanel

"A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future."

- Coco Chanel

"Fashion is not simply a matter of clothes. Fashion is in the air, born upon the wind. One intuits it. It is in the sky and on the road."

- Coco Chanel

"Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman."

- Coco Chanel

"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different." 

- Coco Chanel

"Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity."

- Coco Chanel

"Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve." 

- Coco Chanel

"All men are children, and if you understand that, a woman understands everything."

- Coco Chanel

"I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all."

- Coco Chanel

Husbands, High Heels & Chanel No. 5: Marilyn Monroe

Today, exactly fifty years to the day after her death, Marilyn Monroe still has the world spellbound.

In celebration of her life, we bring you our favourite Marilyn Monroe photos and quotes (from and about her). May we all borrow a little bit of her sparkle today and always...

"When you speak of the American way of life, everybody thinks of chewing gum, Coca-Cola and Marilyn Monroe."

Russian Magazine, Nedvela

"A girl doesn't need anyone that doesn't need her"
Marilyn Monroe

"I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night - there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest"

Marilyn Monroe

"I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful."

Marilyn Monroe

"It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on."
Marilyn Monroe

"I don't know who invented high heels, but women owe him a lot"

Marilyn Monroe

"She looked like, if you bit her, milk and honey would flow from her."

Franz Kline

"Is not Monroe the image par excellence of this New Woman? She is voluptuous, but she admires Dostoyevsky."

Maurice Zolotow

"It's better to be absolutely ridiculous than to be absolutely boring"

Marilyn Monroe

"What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course."
Marilyn Monroe

"A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left."
Marilyn Monroe

"I never wear stockings or underclothes because I think it is important to breathe freely"
Marilyn Monroe

"Marilyn is a dreamy girl. She's the kind who's liable to show up with one red shoe and one black shoe."
Jane Russell

"I used to say to myself, 'What the devil have you got to be proud about, Marilyn Monroe?' And I'd answer, 'Everything, everything,' and I'd walk slowly and turn my head slowly as if I were a queen."
Marilyn Monroe

"It's no fun being married to an electric light"
Joe DiMaggio

"He wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde"
Marilyn Monroe (about Arthur Miller)

"Look at that face - she could be five years old"
Laurence Olivier

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so you can appreciate them when they're right. You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself. And sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together." 

Marilyn Monroe

 

"I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing"
Marilyn Monroe

"Miss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display"
Cecil Beaton

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