Quotes by Derek Blasberg - Page 1

Sometimes I wish that Anna Wintour didn't know I existed.
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Often times if you're bored, the other person is probably bored too.
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One of the perks of my job as a fashion journalist is the travel opportunity.
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Perks
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Even on vacation, Rihanna's easy breezy chic is not complete without a red lip.
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Vacation
Chic
Rihanna
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I don't have some sort of moral dilemma with coming as a guest to an event or a fashion show.
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Dilemma
Fashion Show
Event
Guest
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I use a Blackberry. I'm so behind on mobile communication technology, I think a smartwatch may be too far a leap.
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Communication
Leap
Mobile
Blackberry
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I feel like I have been portrayed as if I was standing outside Cipriani hoping someone picks me as their plus-one.
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Picks
Standing
Me Feel Someone
Hoping
Portrayed
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A good party is one that is designed to entertain and bond friends. The bad parties I've been to are the ones that are held to impress other people.
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Impress
Party
People
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With her first Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Rooney Mara gave fashion fans a new Gothic-chic muse.
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Girl
Fashion
Tattoo
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With her first Oscar nomination for her portrayal of Lisbeth Salander in 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,' Rooney Mara gave fashion fans a new Gothic-chic muse.
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Portrayal
Tattoo
Nomination
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I think the sort of person you want at a party is someone who is self-aware, polite and has a basic knowledge of table manners. And that goes for both men and women.
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Men
Party
Thinking
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I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of aren't aware of manners and other ways of life and 'common decency.'
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Decency
Manners
Life City People
Joined
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For me, in a world full of armies of stylists and makeup artists, what I think truly makes a fashion icon is how a girl dresses when she's off duty and she has to put her own looks together - no small challenge!
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Makeup
Together World Me
Armies
Icon
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I know it's not particularly tech-savvy of me to suggest a camera that doesn't have a touchscreen, but I think when it comes to candid shots of nights out with friends, there's nothing better than a disposable camera.
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Candid
Disposable
Me Better Nothing
Nights
Better Me Nothing
Suggest
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I try to go home to Missouri every couple of months. I do that because I like my family, of course, but my mom doesn't know who Carine Roitfeld is. And as much as that horrifies me, it's a good way to keep your feet on the ground.
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Good Way
Missouri
Family Good Home
Go Home
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Turning the heat up on the red carpet while still looking like a lady isn't as easy as it sounds. Too much va-va-voom, and a girl can look like she just stepped out of 'Jersey Shore.' Too little, and she'll look like a sister wife.
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Sister
Carpet
Heat
Jersey
Jersey Shore
Red Carpet
Shore
Turning
Lady
Stepped
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I try to wear a watch all the time, because I think guys get the short end of the stick when it comes to jewelry and accessories. A watch is a very chic men's item, and you're sort of wasting it if you just look at your cell phone.
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Accessories
Cell Phone
Chic
Jewelry
Cell
Phone
Short
Guys
Wear
Item
Stick
Wasting
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I grew up in the Midwest, so I have sort of an honorable moral code. But I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of arent aware of manners and other ways of life and common decency.
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Common
Moral
People
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Jess is not only a successful actress but also has a line of eco-friendly products called Honest that's become a million-dollar business. Jessica Alba an undercover businesswoman? That's my favorite kind of style - the kind with substance.
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Jessica
Products
Substance
Undercover
Businesswoman
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I grew up in the Midwest, so I have sort of an honorable moral code. But I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of aren't aware of manners and other ways of life and 'common decency.'
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Code
Decency
Honorable
Manners
Life City People
Joined
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I stumbled upon the 3x1 shop because it's a few doors up from the 'V' magazine offices on Mercer. The store is intense: They can take your measurements, and the sewers are right there behind glass making what amounts to a couture pair of jeans.
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Couture
Doors
Intense
Jeans
Glass
Magazine
Measurements
Offices
Shop
Pair
Store
Stumbled
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Some of my best friends here in New York have pasts I have a hard time reconciling with the people I'm close to now. But I wouldn't change them - or their pasts - for anything in the world. Their experiences are what made them the people they are today.
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Change Best Time
Hard Time
Reconciling
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I used to sleep in the T-shirt I wore during the day and whatever ratty old gym shorts I could find on the floor. But one year for Christmas, someone gave me a very chic, comfortable pair of pajamas from Brooks Brothers, and I realized the error of my ways.
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Christmas
Brooks
Chic
Gym
Shorts
Christmas Me Day
Error
Floor
Pair
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Still teenagers, Harry and Peter Brant II have never disappointed when I've seen them out and about in New York, Paris, and Venice (Which is where all schoolkids go on field trips, right?) They're not afraid of wearing brooches, capes, embroidery, and even a dab-bing of makeup.
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Disappointed
Embroidery
Makeup
Peter
Venice
Wearing
Harry
Teenagers
Trips
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If you are going to worry all night, you should let the hostess know that you're coming for cocktails and leaving when everyone sits down for dinner. If you do need to call to check in, people will understand, but excuse yourself from the table and head to the ladies room to do it.
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Night
People
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Often times I'll quickly dash off an email or text message when I leave a party. A particularly enjoyable evening, however, that warrants a thank-you note or a phone call. I always say a handwritten note is the ultimate hallmark of a classy woman. But an email is better than nothing.
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Hallmark
Party
Text Message
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Although it's not something I'm particularly proud of, I'm willing to admit that, in addition to whiling away the long stretches of time in the air and waiting in airport lounges reading the 'New Yorker' and 'New York Times' on my Kindle, I've picked up the occasional tabloid magazine.
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New York Times
Occasional
Waiting
Time Waiting Long
Addition
Admit
Airport
Time Long New
Magazine
Picked
Tabloid
Yorker
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Talking, texting or tweeting on your phone is the worst in any social situation. I went to a lunch during Paris Fashion Week, and I managed to steal a few moments with Lee Radziwill - who I think is perhaps the classiest woman alive - and she said this is her biggest pet peeve too. So I'm in good company.
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Pet
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Temptation is as old as time; or at least, the history of temptation extends as far back as the moment Eve gave Adam that serpent's apple. But what sets the lady apart from the tramp is the ability to acknowledge she needs to clean up her act - and then, of course, the fact that she actually does clean up her act.
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Acknowledge
Adam
Clean
Serpent
Temptation
Apart
Apple
Clean Up
Eve
Gave
Lady
Sets
The History Of
Tramp
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Getting last-minute cancellations can put a black cloud over an event before it has even started. If it's a large, casual cocktail party, then I'll often not say anything until the next day. But if you're not able to make it to a small, seated dinner, you have to call the host - there's nothing worse than an empty chair at a table.
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Say Anything
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If it is a cocktail party, I think bringing your partner, husband or wife is fine. To a certain extent, when someone throws a party, they expect to have people over. If it's a seated dinner, though, you should check beforehand. Asking to bring your partner is fair. Asking to bring eight friends from college is not. A good hostess will always accommodate extras and stragglers, but she'll never forget who brought them.
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