Style and Beauty According to Style Statement
Style and beauty. They can have such superficial connotations. Style can summon up ideas of contrived or even unattainable presentation or aesthetics, while beauty can seem like the domain of pretty people blessed with “good” genes (or lots of money!)
At Style Statement, we don’t buy it. Our understanding is a lot more inclusive, interesting, and positive.
Style
We see style as the opportunity to define yourself on your own terms. By knowing yourself and asserting your identity confidently in the outer world, you are expressing what is within. You are honouring what is within. And you are helping people to connect with the real you, since you’re providing them shorthand for reading who you are.
Style is …
Everything.
Writing style. Speaking style. Leadership style.
Fashion. Art. Architecture.
Style is the way you say it, the way you do it, the way you live it.
Sometimes it’s an appearance. Sometimes it’s an attitude.
It’s the lightning of life. At its best, it reflects the soul.
Beauty
The poet Keats wrote, “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” That’s pretty close to our interpretation of beauty. We would add that beauty is individual, gathers power with other qualities like kindness, compassion, and inner strength, and cannot be dictated by anyone.
Beauty is most transformative when it is positive. Who doesn’t know a “pretty” person who is actually ugly inside and whose outer appearance quickly fails to impress, no matter how conventionally attractive?
Beauty is …
Mysterious and all revealing, all at once.
Confident yet modest.
Anything that makes your heart sing.
Almost always found in joy.
True beauty is a beautiful soul.
