clippings: style

From a T Magazine profile of Carmen Almon:

Slatkin describes her as "a charming bohemian." He recalls an incident when she was painting furniture in a back room of his shop. He invited her to dinner. "She looked down at her white shoes and they were speckled with green paint. She took her brush, painted her shoes green and said, 'I’m ready.'"

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/21/under-the-influence-carmen-almon-the-naturalist/

From a David Colman profile of Anne Fontaine:

In the last decade, many men and women have come to realize that gender is closer to polychrome than to black and white.

Ms. Fontaine described the color [of her lipstick] as a "deep violet pink." Guerlain calls it grenade -- in this case, French for pomegranate, not the weapon.

From a 1912 New York Times primer on makeup, then becoming more widely accepted: "Touch the lips slightly with a lip-stick, but do not make your mouth look like raw beef."