It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new. — Tony Visconti
An antique is anything old with class. — John Bartlett
The minute you think that the past was better, your present is second hand, and yourself becomes vintage - it’s okay for clothes not that great for people — Karl Lagerfeld
Everything I buy is vintage and smells funny. Maybe that's why I don't have a boyfriend. — Lucy Liu
I like to mix and match vintage with designer. It's how I create my own style. — Carly Rae Jepsen
Your birthday is the vintage of your wine; the mark that warns you of your future. — Aesop
I've got scarves and boots from' 1970 that I still wear. — Steven Tyler
I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces. — Cara Delevingne
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome. — Angela Carter
The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans. — Dylan McDermott
Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor. — Tacitus
It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned. — Oscar Wilde
I love the '70s, I'm very into that right now. The long Chloe dresses, very Virgin Suicides. — Elle Fanning
I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists. — Martin Freeman
Short Vintage Quotes
Espresso consumption is an aesthetic experience,like tasting a vintage wine or admiring a painting. — Andrea Illy
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste. — Logan Pearsall Smith
I have eclectic taste, and I love vintage style mixed with glamour and old world charm. — Sonam Kapoor
My old vintage designs are so popular now. I must have been on to something. — Pierre Cardin
I always had a sense that clothes, be it uniform or vintage, could help to create a character. — Collier Schorr
I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments. — Tommy Shaw
Short boughs, long vintage. — George Herbert
I love history. Everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques. — Kelly Wearstler
I've always loved vintage and I never like to have something someone else has. — Jillian Hervey
My style is quite clean, vintage, and almost French in a way. — India de Beaufort
Old Vintage Quotes
I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale. — Edgar Rice Burroughs
Being vintage like a fine wine
Should make you proud of being old
And being mature like a cheese
Certainly explains the mould!
Fester on undaunted into your 7th decade — John Walter Bratton
I like old cars, old watches, anything with a vintage, antique kind of a feel to it. I'm just more in tune with that than anything else. — David Boreanaz
I was working at eBay, so I would just troll the vintage categories, find old amps and what have you. I was buying a fair amount of stuff and playing with it and then selling it back. — Bill Orcutt
Vintage books, old china, antiques; maybe I love old things so much because I feel impermanent myself. — Josh Lanyon
I like the old, vintage Hollywood look. — Gwen Stefani
I love old, vintage cars. I've got a 1936 Dodge Touring Sedan right now and there's only five of them registered in the world, and I absolutely love working on it. It's gorgeous. — Danny Trejo
We started seven years ago and finally released our first vintage in March. It's an '07 vintage from Walla Walla, which is my old hometown. It also happens to be a world-class wine region that's just exploding on the scene right now. — Drew Bledsoe
It's been fun for me to figure out what I am in the world of fashion. I pull more now from my hometown, the aesthetic of the mountains and Arizona and the old western, vintage kind of vibe mixed with a sort of California bohemia. — Zella Day
I love looking at vintage for inspiration; go see movies, art galleries, watch people on the street, you have to really keep your eyes open and see how you can reinterpret the old and make it modern and relevant again. — Charlotte Ronson
Inspirational Vintage Quotes
I get my inspiration from books, pictures, art. I might find a vintage scarf and say, "I think this should be our color palette." — Jessica Simpson
I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired. — Olivier Theyskens
Everything can draw inspiration: a vintage cloth, a book, a street-when I was in Japan, I was deeply inspired by Japanese pharmacies. — Renzo Rosso
There's a lot of really inspiring music coming around the bend - we tend to believe that to sound classic or timeless is to sound vintage or retro. It's a little bit dangerous, because you'll really miss a chance to make your mark as a generation. — Brandi Carlile
Vintage Clothing Quotes
I am vegetarian, so I don’t have clothes, shoes or bags made from leather or suede or any animal products. Shoes are hard to find. These are fake Uggs. And I’ve got a pair of vintage boots, which are PVC. — Leona Lewis
I wear everything from hip-hop baggy pants to beautiful Armani dresses. I also like to mix vintage clothing with designer pieces. — Julia Stiles
No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love. — Yves Saint Laurent
When you buy a piece of vintage clothing you're not just buying the fabric and thread - you're buying a piece of someone's past — Isabel Wolff
I love to shop vintage clothes; in London, I usually go to Relic and Alfie's Market. I usually brunch around London Bridge, where I live. — Georgia May Jagger
For clothes, I like Dover Street Market and Acne. For vintage, I go to Mint just off Seven Dials. For shoes, it's Church's and Russell & Bromley. — Matt Smith
I love vintage clothes. I have a real passion which probably comes from the days of my mum who had this great dress up box that she put all her clothes from the 60s and 70s in - platform shoes and jumpsuits and boots. — Rachel McAdams
I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I'd dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period. — Illeana Douglas
Basically, I always go to vintage shops rather than going shopping for new clothes. — Karen Gillan
I got a job as soon as I could - 11 or 12. I started babysitting and then I got a part-time job at a pharmacy in England. I just remember loving the feeling of going out and buying my own clothes! I'd go bargain-hunting and get secondhand vintage stuff. — Natasha Bedingfield
Vintage Shopping Quotes
Everything I do is unfabulous. Im the most normal person. I love walking everywhere, and going to hole-in-the-wall places, like nail shops, because they do the best job. And I go to vintage stores rather than high-end boutiques, because I like to dress different from other people. — Ashley Benson
My mom passed on her obsession of all things antique or vintage. I love to go thrift store shopping or explore any sort of garage sale. Treasure hunting is a family passion. — Sayings
I wear a lot of different jewellery. I love to look for it when Im abroad or if I find a great antique or vintage shop. — Lily Donaldson
I love fashion! I love clothes! I really like vintage clothes, so in my closet there's a lot of '50s stuff. I go to the stores and shop around. — Elle Fanning
I shop only at thrift stores and vintage stores. In New York, I like a place called Star Struck, and a place called The Family Jewels. — Ezra Miller
I love vintage shopping, I think it's really fun. And I love the feeling of finding the most amazing piece for less. — Emma Roberts
I like to experiment a lot, I just like to make myself look different to everyone else. Shopping at all different places from vintage to high-street, and then I just put it together myself. — Cher Lloyd
I've always loved fashion so much and I didn't have access to the kind of fashion I really wanted, so I would do vintage shopping. — Rachel Roy
I love to find a great vintage secondhand shop. — Bridget Hall
I'm not a vintage/thrift shop girl. I don't have the patience. — Robin Givhan
Vintage Stuff Quotes
I like vintage stuff. I go through a vintage store and find things that I feel like I fit right into them because of all the years that they've been used. — Channing Tatum
I don't really know much about the fashion world. I have a few stylist friends that help me find stuff. So they know all about the vintage fashion world; I just kind of describe to them what I want and they find a lot of it for me. — BØRNS
I’ve been enjoying a couple of post-Oscar burgers. So I didn’t fit into a lot of the vintage stuff. I wanted to wear something that was a little bit more forgiving. — Anne Hathaway
I'm a real Londoner. We have very grey weather in London, and I think it encourages a very eclectic and crazy fashion sense. I mix high-street stuff with more high-end fashion and vintage. — Emma Watson
I wore the Marc Jacobs dress, so I love Marc Jacobs. He has a vintage flair. But I've always worn a lot of vintage stuff, so it hasn't been a lot of designers. If I see something that I like, I just buy it. — Elle Fanning
I like to mix it up with vintage '70s stuff and I like to wear a lot of guys' clothes. As far as night stuff, I have my stylist direct me in the right way. We have a vintage glamour, age-appropriate, pretty thing going. — Brittany Snow
Ladies, apologies, but isn't 'vintage' just used stuff? — Bob Saget
Vintage Car Quotes
When I look at asset prices; real estate, bonds, equities, vintage cars… I think that gold is actually one of the few assets that is relatively cheap, relatively inexpensive. — Marc Faber
I don't like new cars; I'm into vintage cars - there's a Jaguar E-Type in the 'Goldie' video. — ASAP Rocky
I am a huge comic book fan, and I love everything vintage: cars, movies, music, art, and style - especially the 1950s style. — Mateus Ward
I love vintage cars because you can do so much more to them. — T-Pain
They're dressing like in the 50's when they come out to the shows, and many of them have vintage cars. — Wanda Jackson
I love racers from that early vintage antique era of the 1950s. There's just something about them. It's the last romantic epoch of car-making. They were not efficient, necessarily. They were put together with intuition and enthusiasm, not with a formula. That's as technical as I'll get. — Jon J Muth
The band is like a vintage car. You take it out to go for a spin for a couple miles, but you wouldn't drive across the country. — Robyn Hitchcock
Choose the fucks you give wisely. Because like a fine wine, our fucks must age into a fine vintage, only uncorked and given on the most special fucking occasion. — Mark Manson
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage. — John Steinbeck
I find my dress sense tends to be a bit of a mixture between high fashion and unique vintage pieces with a little bit of street trends. For example, I might find a really nice, suede dinner jacket that I'd wear with a basic plain white shirt and some chinos and a pair of Nike trainers. — Tinie Tempah
I love handbags. And shoes. Investing in like a great handbag or a pair of shoes can really make or break an outfit. It's fun to mix and match high street with luxury brands and throw in a bit of vintage as well. — Miranda Kerr
When it comes to wine, I tell people to throw away the vintage charts and invest in a corkscrew. The best way to learn about wine is the drinking. — Alexis Lichine
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more. — Carl Jung
As for a signature accessory, I believe in something totally unique that I love and is very personal. It could be a fab pair of vintage earrings I picked up on my travels or a beautiful brightly colored hat or heels, or a fun clutch or handbag. Truthfully, though, the ultimate accessory is a big smile and positive energy! — Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows, and broken birdcages. The other half is very Aztec. Neon ikat fabric pillows, vintage books piled up to the ceiling, and shutters from Bali. — Poppy Delevingne
Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine and kept for age to sip at ease beside the fire. If the traveler has vintaged well, he need trouble to wander no longer; the ruby moments glow in his glass at will. — Freya Stark
Knitwear can play a vital part in layering. The simplicity of a lightweight cardigan makes it one of the best ways to layer outfits. I love granddad cardis for winter, worn over a vintage lace shirt, waistcoat and full skirt with slouchy boots. — Sayings
For my own style, I love vintage. 60's and 70's are my favorite. I love baby doll dresses and the soft colors. I try to mix a little bit of modern into that - maybe I'll wear it with boots. At my school we wear a uniform, but we have one day a week we can wear whatever we want. — Elle Fanning
I emcee how I feel for the moment. I'll always be influenced by Tribe, but my EP and LP have a lot of different flavors! I'll keep it vintage Tribe if Tribe decides to do another LP... which, in my heart, I'd love to do for the fans. — Phife Dawg
Paul Furlong is my vintage Rolls Royce and he cost me nothing. We polish him, look after him, and I have him fine tuned by my mechanics. We take good care of him because we have to drive him every day, not just save him for weddings. — Ian Holloway
I definitely spend the most money on shoes, partly because vintage footwear can be a little funky - in a bad way. I like to keep things pretty simple up top and then go weird with the shoes. — Chloe Sevigny
Fortunately I own a vintage brain, and I am alive and well in the 21st century, still making records, still working at an intense pace and most of all, still having fun doing it. — Tony Visconti
I'm definitely a vintage collector. I have a wardrobe of core basics that I like to spice up with different colors, new accessories, and I love to try on new things to invite something different. I find, with every new stage of my life, my self-image shifts with new duties and responsibilities, and so does my fashion style. — Camila Alves
But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin gourmets. There is, we feel, a decent area somewhere between boiled carrots and Beluga caviare, sour plonk and Chateau Lafitte, where we can take care of our gullets and bellies without worshipping them. — J. B. Priestley
I believe that the responsibility of the winemaker is to take that fruit and get it into the bottle as the most natural and purest expression of that vineyard, of the grape varietal or blend, and of the vintage. — Robert M. Parker, Jr.
The C+ amps is vintage at this point, and it definitely has a certain sound to it. I wanted something that was going to keep Dream Theater in more of a current musical landscape, as far as being the producer and producing the type of album I wanted to hear. — John Petrucci
Purists behave as if there was a vintage year when language achieved a measure of excellence which we should all strive to maintain. In fact, there was never such a year. The language of Chaucer's or Shakespeare's time was no better and no worse than that of our own - just different. — Jean Aitchison
I have a lot of guitars. Yeah, I'm not like a guitar collector, I don't have all vintage instruments. I don't even own a Strat or Les Paul. I don't have one. — John Petrucci
I always have Aquaphor which is just for like chapped lips, especially in the wintertime when you're traveling a lot. That's just the worst combination of things. And always a really good pair of jeans. Something vintage-y, a little loose and boyfriend-y, but not over the top. They're just comfortable but could still be dressed up or down. — Emily Ratajkowski
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