How to define Style ?Yves Saint Laurent called it eternal.Coco Chanel said that when everything else fades, it remains.Audrey Hepburn said everyone has his own.Charles Bukowski called it “everything”, saying that Joan of Arc had style, John the Baptist, Jesus, Socrates, Ceasar, Garcia Lorca…A common perception is that you must put a lot of thought and effort into displaying style in the way you dress and present yourself to others. It's certainly one of the most overused words other than chic and fashion, within the realm of how we dress.In this episode, Sonya and Hugo discuss two techniques to try to develop your own style, beginning with a method called heuristics, and ending with a revelation specific to finding your style by E.B. White (discussed in his 1959 enlarged and revised work by William Strunk, Jr. in his dissertation, “The Elements of Style” from 1918).Support the showOur YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@SARTORIALTALKSSupport the show: https://www.patreon.com/sartorialtalks

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