Quotes by Vanessa Friedman

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The important thing when it comes to grooming, as when it comes to clothes, is you do not want anything to distract from the strength and power of your ideas,.
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If you treat your subject with seriousness and respect, other people tend to treat it the same way.
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This is the potential start of something...awareness
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If you have got a jacket with a belt, you do not want to leave the belt undone, because it flops around and is distracting.
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So you do not want scraggly beards, weird hair or anything else that people would be looking at instead of listening.
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You do not want to do what one female banker did. She went to Finland with three-inch heels, but they did not work in the snow,
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For women you would not want to leave your shirt undone, so that if you lean over you reveal something you did not want to reveal,
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Similar things apply when you are going to warm climates. In Los Angeles, where the sun is bright, some suit fabrics which look gray in London take on a strange greenish tint (in Los Angeles).