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Kate Reardon Quotes

A good school teaches you resilience – that ability to bounce back.

– Kate Reardon

Anything looks good if you’ve got the body of a Victoria’s Secret model and the porelessly smooth skin-tone of a piece of glass.

– Kate Reardon

Each dress symbolizes the age that it’s appropriate for.

– Kate Reardon

When did you last have fun being dignified?

– Kate Reardon

The Queen’s wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.

– Kate Reardon

There’s a particularly British wariness of appearing to try too hard. It’s somehow distasteful. Everything should come to us seamlessly and, if you have to work at it, you’re somehow a loser.

– Kate Reardon

Polo drifts gently in and out of fashion.

– Kate Reardon

Being chaotic isn’t cute.

– Kate Reardon

It doesn’t matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.

– Kate Reardon

I can count on one hand the number of people who wrote me a thank you letter after having an interview, and I gave almost all of them a job.

– Kate Reardon

The genius of Kate Middleton is that she hasn’t gone too far. She’s still dressing in a way that people can relate to.

– Kate Reardon

By doing, you become employable. It doesn’t matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.

– Kate Reardon

My favourite thing in my wardrobe is my jewelry.

– Kate Reardon

Anya Hindmarch is indeed a handbag designer; she has the requisite fabulous life, tasteful home, and loving husband. She is also beautiful and self-deprecating, and has five children aged 5 to 20 and a philanthropic bent which spans causes from cancer care to Britain’s Conservative Party.

– Kate Reardon

Personal shoppers in big department stores are seriously under-used.

– Kate Reardon

Posh is a way of living that can often be quite miserly and not about money.

– Kate Reardon

Conrad Black is a picture of a man hugely enjoying himself.

– Kate Reardon

A good education gives you confidence to stick up your hand for anything – whether it is the job you want, or the bloke. And the more you stick up your hand, the better your chances are that you will get what you want.

– Kate Reardon

There’s a difference between being posh and being rich.

– Kate Reardon

There’s no snobbery or resentment from serious polo people towards those who just come for the party.

– Kate Reardon

The trouble with glossy magazines is that they tend to be stuffed with articles about handbag designers – the sort of women who, with their perfectly styled lives, immaculate houses, and adoring partners, make you want to become a hermit.

– Kate Reardon

The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.

– Kate Reardon

I have a career I love more than I can tell you, and I have it because I work incredibly hard pretty much every single day.

– Kate Reardon

A lot of women find that their workwear acts as armour.

– Kate Reardon

It’s stupid to say that there’s any comfort to be had in ‘knowing your place,’ but there is a sense of reassuring escapism to something like ‘Downton Abbey.’ There’s a perceived romance and elegance that is wonderful to lose yourself in.

– Kate Reardon

I think, to me, the sheer joy of fancy dress is that it allows you to take a break from our very carefully considered and constructed identities.

– Kate Reardon