16 Liz Goldwyn Quotes for You to Enjoy

Liz Goldwyn

American Writer

Born: Dec 25, 1976

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When I think about fashion and elegance, I imagine a woman from the 1950s, on an airplane, with seamed stockings and a garment belt underneath, a skirt, high heels, and her hair that she's done the night before, perfectly done eyeliner, lipstick, gloves, perhaps, and all this just to sit on an airplane for a transcontinental flight. Liz Goldwyn

Fashion Woman Hair Before Sit Think Airplane High High Heels About Perfectly Perhaps She Underneath Gloves Stockings Lipstick Done Just Heels Flight Skirt Elegance Garment Her Night Belt Imagine

My favorite thing to do in L.A. is to be in a car with friends listening to music. The perfect time is twilight, when the setting sun is filtering through the palm trees. Back in the day, we'd be listening to the Vandals, X, or Farside. Now it would be L.A.-based bands like Dum Dum Girls, Foxygen, or Ty Segall. Liz Goldwyn

Music Time Day Listening Car Girl Setting Trees Filtering Setting Sun Back Sun Favorite Favorite Thing Would Would-Be Perfect Through Like Friends Bands Now Twilight Thing Palm

If fashion has a political significance, it is probably culturally, as a camouflage. Liz Goldwyn

Fashion Political Significance Camouflage

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. Liz Goldwyn

You Culture Clothes Kids Wear Dresses Allowances Part Retro Were Just Meant Cool Thing Designer

I think people sometimes have a hard time placing me because I don't fit into a box. When they ask what I do at a cocktail party, I either say I'm a Renaissance woman or I'm a high-level madam. Lately I've been more comfortable saying I'm an artist, because that can cover a lot of different things. Liz Goldwyn

Saying Time Me Woman People Sometimes Party Cocktail Think Lately Say Madam More Renaissance Box Comfortable Because Cover Been Lot Fit Artist Different Either Placing Ask Hard Hard Time Different Things Things

Every winter, I'm a sexy academic deconstructionist. And in the summer, it's normally Brigitte Bardot on holiday in the 1950s. Liz Goldwyn

Winter Every Summer Sexy Academic Normally Holiday

Sunscreen is my number one beauty product that goes on even when I am indoors. Liz Goldwyn

Beauty Sunscreen My Number One Indoors Am Goes Product Even Number

In general, I'm fascinated by women who exist outside of society's mores and values. Liz Goldwyn

Women Values Society General Outside Exist Who Fascinated

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. Liz Goldwyn

Love Death Time Technology Experience People Sex Past Clothes Think Our Distance Though Wearing Through Look Period Because Time Period Same Any Different Experiences Lens Even Right

I don't like the sun, but I live in California. Liz Goldwyn

Live Sun Like California

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. Liz Goldwyn

Buy Character Mood Evocative Dress Pretty Take Because Just Want

Los Angeles is a true postmodern city. Here, we celebrate with equal aplomb the high and the low. I am just as influenced by the punk rock attitude of local skate and surf cultures as I am by old-school glamour and stardust. Liz Goldwyn

Attitude Celebrate Punk Local Punk Rock High City Angeles Postmodern Glamour True Equal Rock Surf Am Los Los Angeles Cultures Just Influenced Skate Low Stardust Here

For me, clothing has always been connected to history. That's what draws me in. Liz Goldwyn

Me History Draws Always Been Clothing Connected

Fashion is not interesting unless it has some connection to something outside of that world. It's the same thing with any part of the arts: you can't just take pictures - you have to look at science, to listen to music; you have to be aware of the connections within the world. If you take something in an isolated box, it loses all significance. Liz Goldwyn

Music Fashion You Science World Same Thing Unless Significance Some Something Take Outside Part Pictures Look Box Within Isolated Loses Same Any Listen Just Arts Interesting Connection Connections Aware Thing

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