Carrie & Danielle's
Manifesto of Style™
Version 2.0

  1. Communicate who you are in all you do. Consistency is power. When the various parts of your life reflect your essence, your life moves in the direction you want it to.
  2. Style is multi-dimensional. Visual and sensual choices are driven by self-perception. Our image is the composite of our beliefs, history and desires.
  3. Style matters. The design of your life can inspire or mire you. Every aesthetic and material choice sends a message to the world about who you are, and the world responds accordingly.
  4. Authenticity is energizing, economical and efficient. The better you know yourself, the clearer your choices. Self-awareness leads to true style.
  5. Accentuate the positive. Give your attention to the best, and the best will flourish.
  6. People are like snowflakes - uniquely beautiful because of the details. To compare snowflake to snowflake is not very productive.
  7. Pay attention to what attracts you. One of the most powerful questions you can ask is: What am I drawn to?
  8. Working from the outside in can create deep transformation. Surface changes have the power to alter your inner landscape. (So yes, sometimes a new hairdo or work of art can change your life.)
  9. Feel free to change. When you discover something true, put it into action, regardless of who you were yesterday.
  1. True style is not dependent on wealth, and wealth does not necessarily create taste. Authenticity is not dependent on funding. On a budget or on easy street, you owe it to yourself to find a way to be genuinely you.
  2. Cheap is expensive in the long run. Why buy twice when you can buy once? Commit to quality and it commits to you.
  3. Use your best everyday. Life is too short to wait for a special occasion to bring out your finery, your treasures, your brilliance and the best of your love.
  4. Choose from your heart and your life will fill up with things you love. What works is what feels right.
  5. Beauty transforms. Its capacity to generate pleasure, healing, and connection is divinely powerful. Beauty affects its maker and beholder every time.
  6. It's always a good time to be yourself. And it's never too late. Possibility exists all of the time, everywhere. You haven't missed your moment to be your most beautiful.
  7. Only love is free - everything else costs. Whether it's with time, space, emotion or earthly resources, we pay for what we choose. Be selective about what you need.
  8. Creativity + restraint = beauty. Overdone style leaves little room for newness, appreciation, or reciprocity. Hold back a bit. Allow for breathing space. Trust in the power of subtlety.
  9. Contrast makes things interesting. Too much sameness dulls the senses. Find the twist.
  10. Living is sensual. Engage life with all you've got.
  11. Make more choices—moment to moment, day to day. You are the designer of your life. Be selective, creative, and intentional in every possible way.

 

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