Tao té Chanel

Tao té Chanel [ta-O tay Tsha-nayl] noun A philosophical and style system influenced by the thinking of Coco Chanel, and others, that clothes and dresses are only just one fabric and expression of fashion.

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Maurice Brange, Au Café (Solita Solano and Djuna Barnes in Paris, 1922)

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I’m thinking balls are to men, what purses are to women. It’s just a little bag but we’d feel naked in public without it.

Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw ("Sex And The City")

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My "Killer" Heels ~ When I wear my Killer Heels, men gasp, women sigh...

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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.

Zelda Fitzgerald

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“Spinach and champagne. Going back to the kitchens at the old Waldorf. Dancing on the kitchen tables, wearing the chef’s headgear. Finally, a crash and being escorted out by the house detectives.” -Zelda Fitzgerald, describing her life in the 1920s.

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“She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring.” ― Zelda Fitzgerald, The Collected Writings

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Happy Birthday Zelda Fitzgerald, the original 'It Girl' of the roaring twenties. Modern literature's favorite muse who embodied everything that fabled era promised: defiance, recklessness and, above all, glamor.

Dubbed the "first American flapper" by her husband, Zelda epitomized the roaring twenties with her bobbed hair, short skirts and unapologetic drinking as she made her way through the most exclusive social circles in New York and, later, Paris. Zelda’s loose-fitting garments highlighted her forward-thinking frame of mind. They were the antithesis to the corset, the socially accepted norm for womenswear in the early 1900s.

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Whoever said that money can’t buy happiness, simply didn’t know where to go shopping.

Bo Derek

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Shoe love ❤

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 Walk like you have three men walking behind you.

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Marc Jacobs starring in 'the lighter side of fashion'.

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Edith Head sketch of a Givenchy design for Audrey Hepburn in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's', 1961

A watercolour and pencil costume sketch of Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in the Paramount film Breakfast At Tiffany's, 1961, the sketch shows Audrey Hepburn in her black dress and wide brimmed hat complete with sunglasses, worn in the scene where she visits Sally Tomato in prison. 

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Every woman should have something pink in her wardrobe. It is the color of happiness. ~ Christian Dior

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The average woman falls in love 7 times a year. Only 6 are with shoes ~ Kenneth Cole

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Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable - Donna Karan

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Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.

Donna Karan

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

Coco Chanel