There is something about a well-fitted modern jacket that feels like armor. If it's cut well, it adds a dose of cool to anything you wear it with and does the heavy lifting when it comes to creating a flattering shape.

Clothes are not Botox. Wearing a miniskirt does not take 10 years off your face.

If you only have work clothes - the black trouser and ribbed turtleneck you got four years ago at the Gap - you're not participating in your own style personality.

Nothing's too girly and nothing's too masculine. But I do love color, and maybe that's a little girly - especially pink.

Finding tricks to create flattering body shape is the key to style.

I don't argue style on the basis of tastes. If you feel like you've reached your personal best, don't change.

Style is all about your individual sense of how you want to present yourself to the world. It's about loving what you've got instead of wishing for what you're not.