Words matter. These are the best Liz Goldwyn Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
For me, clothing has always been connected to history. That’s what draws me in.
In L.A., retro culture is just part of the thing you do. When we were kids, we didn’t have allowances, and it was not cool to wear designer clothes. So it meant that we were into 1920s dresses when we were 13.
I don’t just buy a dress because it’s pretty – it has to be evocative of a mood, a character I want to take on.
I never had a clique. If I throw a party, the only thing connecting people is me. Maybe I just don’t believe in fear. I bulldoze right in.
I had a very feminist mother who exposed me not only to Planned Parenthood – my first job – but also to Betty Friedan and Colette and Naomi Wolf.
Even though we look at the past through the lens of distance and think that because people are wearing different clothes or have different technology, their experiences are different, it’s all the same, right? Our experience of love and sex and death are the same in any time period.
My new dressing goal is to make little kids and babies smile at all the bright, clashing colours I can wear at once. It makes me laugh when I catch sight of my own reflection – life is too short not have fun!
From an early age, my father stressed the power of the image, and he encouraged me to carefully control my own. He advised me, for example, never to be photographed from below, an often unflattering angle for women.
I don’t like the sun, but I live in California.
A 1920s dress I wore on my 21st birthday… literally disintegrated on me. I had the most wild debauched night. And that disintegrated dress sits in my closet – such a great memory.
Every winter, I’m a sexy academic deconstructionist. And in the summer, it’s normally Brigitte Bardot on holiday in the 1950s.
I don’t label myself a feminist. I love men, but I am all about promoting a better, healthier relationship between the sexes.
I want to say, embrace your sexuality, own it, be confident, but you don’t have to show everything. Respect yourself, and make others respect you.
Sunscreen is my number one beauty product that goes on even when I am indoors.
If fashion has a political significance, it is probably culturally, as a camouflage.
In general, I’m fascinated by women who exist outside of society’s mores and values.
I’ve worked with a lot of beauty companies over the years, but I really have to say that my own routine is very natural; like, I really try to be careful about the stuff I’m putting into my body, onto my body. I do believe in beauty foods – like, a lot of blueberries, salmon, kale, quinoa, avocado.
