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It has a really timeless feel.
If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
To do then now would be retro. To do then then was very now-tro, if you will.
The tradition of the new. Yesterday's avant-gard-experiment is today's chic and tomorrow's cliche.
Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends.
It's in the vein, somewhere in a cross between The Beatles, Cheap Trick, The Stones, Badfinger, you know, but it's not retro at all. But it is very pop.
I'm not trying to be new school and I'm not old school - I'm classic. There's a lot of new cars and there's a lot of old cars, but I'm just classic in doing what I do.
I remember when I used to be really into nostalgia.
You should approach technological things in a nostalgic way.
I think I'm nostalgic for a time I never experienced.
I should have lived through the '80s, not been born in it. My style is a mix of hip-hop and '80s casual.
My personal style is a big mix. A lot of it's pretty vintage. I love vintage looks. I'm obsessed with the mid '60s era, even '70s, it was a good era for clothes, hair, music, and cars.
One thing that got me started on it was the jean jacket. It's an item that could make you believe you're in the 50s or punk-rock 70s or grunge 90s. I was really focused on timelessness, and I think music is very timeless.
I love clothing and still shop a lot of vintage.
I love old funky things. Color just makes me happy, and things all lined up.
For cripes sake, have you ever heard of 'Ready or not? Here I come'?"
Retro or not, cheesy is cheesy."
Sometimes what you learned from beer commercials comes in real handy.
Fall 2013 was inspired by the 1970s equestrian lifestyle. I wanted to incorporate the moody and romantic - intricate baroque detailing and classic menswear elements - with something tougher and edgier in a nod to London's rock n' roll underground.
I tend to like antique things. Something can be old, but it can be timeless.
One day you will be nostalgic for today.
You know, I was really privileged to meet Woody Allen, who is now a filmmaker, let's be honest. He's also an actor. And he's classic. And because I have no conception of what classic fashion is now, I respond to his slightly outdated sensibilities.
I'm an old-school type of guy.
I love all vintage-everything, really. I love fashion. I've always loved it. And the fifties, I've always loved.
If nostalgia holds you hostage,
the ransom is the present.
I do have a lot of references coming out of the '60s, '70s, and '80s, but I don't consciously think, "I'm going to put this here and this there." It comes out of my unconscious, and I don't want it to be just retro.
I like to mix and match vintage with designer. It's how I create my own style.
I like all like classic rock bands like The Beatles and The Who and stuff and Led Zeppelin so I kinda dress like that. Kinda retro I guess. Well not retro but, like tight. I don't know. Like just jeans and shirts. I don't know. Kinda rock and roll I guess.
I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear.
I love only extreme novelty or the things of the past.
As life speeds by, nostalgia has a shorter pregnancy. Games still in progress are given the straight-to-sepia status of "Instant Classics" no matter how oxymoronic that phrase appears.
No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.
I love things that are old and glittery, that come with layers of glamour and past lives.
I'm an old-school guy.
I love vintage and I shop vintage a lot because it's just such great value for money.
I think writers just can't come up with any new words for what we're doing, because we're not 'retro-' anything. Like, in 'Gold and a Pager,' we're not talking about what was current - pagers were cool to us, but they never stopped being cool; people just stopped using them.
I'm timeless, I got that Dickensian, London street-urchin look in high school. I'll never be in style, but I'll always be different.
Of the countless ways to feel old in your 40s, perhaps none is quite as perplexing as seeing a young person trendily decked out in 1980s-style garb and saying to yourself, 'I can't believe that look is back in style. It was bad enough the first time around!'
I'm a big Ralph Lauren girl, but I love vintage clothing. I like the whole western jeans and boots style. I love vintage T-shirts and flannels, and there's nothing like a great vintage sweatshirt.
When seen in retrospect, fashions seem to express their era. Although it is more difficult to draw conclusions from contemporary clothes, the same principles which hold for the clothes of the past must hold for clothes of the present and the future.
Sadly, I don't really believe in the idea of timeless fashion. It's an oxymoron. If 'classic fashion' really never changed, we'd all still be wearing togas.
Nostalgia is not what it used to be.
When I went into the computer shop to change my last laptop, the 19-year-old kid behind the counter looked at my six-year-old model and described it as 'vintage.' 'Vintage?' I wanted to scream. 'Son, I've got shirts older than you! I own underpants that have seen more of the world!'
Used to rock a throwback ballin on the corner, now I rock tailored suit lookin' like a owner.
My style was nostalgic and involved pearls and penny loafers, always with the pennies in them.
I like vintage shopping, but I also like to mix in high-end.
Suddenly I was nostalgic for something I'd never known.
I like styling girls that don't normally dress in vintage clothes and don't normally wear red lipstick; I like seeing those kind of girls restyled in a retro way.
Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.
What is nostalgia, after all, but an attempt to preserve that which was good in the past?
I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.
I get nonplussed by all the Fifties retro-revival aesthetic. Would we really want to be in our pinnies in our kitchen weeping? I find the kitchen, housewifey aesthetic repugnant.
I love vintage and prints.
I've always liked to dress eccentrically, but as I get older I'm drawn to more classic looks, though I'll still put my own twist on them.
I have always loved things that are timeless and get better with age.
For my wardrobe, I like to invest in classic pieces and pair them with more trendy new pieces and accessories each season.
An antique is anything old with class.
My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.
NOSTALGIA IS A WEAPON
As one of my older friends says, "Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be." Let's take a stab at it, anyway.
I am not nostalgic for the past.
Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.
Old is the new sexy.Sexy-- Ellen Barkin
I really like the bohemian look, and I'm a great fan of mixing vintage and modern.
I've always been drawn to the American style in the late '50s and '60s.
What we see is what they're trying to sell us. It's not true nostalgic as much as it is repeating old material because it's less expensive than new material.
I'm nostalgic for the future I knew as a kid. Back then, it was a lovely, bleepy, heavenly land populated by svelte men in white polo necks, who would lounge on big white sofas sipping blue wine from big glass globes, beside women like the ones on the covers of Hedkandi chill out compilations.
My own style is pretty classic; I much prefer to design for others.
When you can take something that is a reject at the thrift store sitting on the bottom of a pile of junk and make it work, make it look interesting, that's real style to me.
I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
I wanted to create things that you can always pull out of your closet and rely on. I wanted to create a timeless, classic collection of clothing that you can keep expanding on.
Most oldsters are fascinated by the Future, while the young love to look back to earlier days, especially their own.
Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century.
We are combining elements like tuxedos and workwear, for contrast; some looks also are based on 30s-era inspirations.
You don't need some vintage thing with another woman's secrets stuck to the seams.
There's never a new fashion but it's old.
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
When I was growing up, there were so many things I thought were stylish. Jabo jeans, V Bombers, Clarks, Vikings, Nugget watches, Lee pants with the patches, leather hats - which I still wear now. All hip-hop stuff, all South Bronx stuff.
I think that I'm very old fashioned in terms of my film references and what appeals to me, in a way with camera moves and a depth of color to bring things to it.
I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were more or less of the same generation.
I've always loved the fashion of the '30s and everything that came with the Art Deco era - the jewelry and the glamour.
I love anything vintage. And I love Marc Jacobs and shoes by Giuseppe Zanotti.
What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff.
I like the fact that everyone is nostalgic for vinyl, and I'm being nostalgic for CDs, which are like the new outdated things that no one is going to mourn the loss of - everyone's already written them off.
My nostalgia is for the impossible.
Old Americana vintage gangster stuff has a fantastical feel; it feels less dirty in a way. It feels like the opera of crime.
I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.
Classic of '43. Don't knock it. A Vintage year.
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
I'm a big fan of old boots.
I know parts of all the decades come in and out of fashion, but you never get to wear an entire outfit exactly how it was.
Put me in a vintage shop, and I am like a child with sweeties. I find it a million times easier to find a vintage dress than trawl the shops for a pair of jeans, so I am either dressed in really nice vintage, or I am in a pair of tracksuit bottoms looking like a scruffbag.
I don't think of myself as a particularly nostalgic person.
The shock of the way I mix patterns and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is provoke new ideas about how pieces can be put together in different ways. I think this is a more modern way to wear clothes that in themselves are fairly classic.
There is definitely a nostalgia, and I am very sentimental, so I don't begrudge people for having sentimental feelings towards vinyl.
We were nostalgic for a time that wasn't yet over.
I noticed in the late 1990s that my friends and I were already nostalgic for the 1980s, and by the turn of the century, VH1's 'I Love the '80s' gave all of us an accelerated nostalgia for our generation.
I have classic and feminine taste. I'm definitely drawn to vintage-inspired and ladylike things. I like an accentuated waist, and a strong shoulder works well with my figure.
A marriage of opposites - modern elements with antique pieces - highlights both their individuality and compatibility.
I still like my antique clothes.
I've never been good at being nostalgic, and I've never been able to focus on sound without having a voice that's very here-and-now.
I like the old '90s music.