Elizabeth Heyert Quotes

United States, Photographer
1951

Elizabeth Heyert is an American photographer and author. She received her Master's degree in photography and the history of photography from the Royal College of Art, London, where she studied with Bill Brandt. She is known for experimental portrait photography, most notably her trilogy The Sleepers , The Travelers , and The Narcissists , and her groundbreaking project The Bound

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I think that women are often lumped into categories - single gals, or soccer moms, or career women, or women of a certain age. For some reason our society wants women to wear labels, and not only on their clothes.

Elizabeth Heyert
- Women
- Career
- Labels
I like clothes that stimulate the senses, fashion that is both exquisite and intellectual.

Elizabeth Heyert

I don't think the role of style is different for a woman of any age. Style, to me, is about experimenting with what gives you pleasure, a joyous expression of imagination. I emphasize joyous because too much is written about fashion that takes the pleasure away - clothes that make you look thinner or clothes that make you look younger or, horrors, clothes that make other people envy you or that - double horrors - are "age appropriate".

Elizabeth Heyert
For me, style is about forgetting the rules or creating new ones.

Elizabeth Heyert
- Style
- Rules
- Forgetting