Quotable Keef: The Inimitable Mr. Richards on Personal Style Inline

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    On borrowing from the ladies in his life:

    “I steal women s clothes. Charlie Watts got really pissed at me a few years ago. There was some page in Vogue, and I was a fashion icon. I was actually wearing Anita s clothes. And Charlie, who spends half his time on Savile Row, said, ‘You, a fashion icon.’ […] I pick up whatever s around and put it on. […] I said to Charlie, ‘Look at that picture in Vogue and you ll see the buttons are on the wrong side of the shirt. All I did was put on Anita s clothes.’ ”

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    On knowing the right people–and how a real rock star shops:

    “If you run to a wardrobe department and you get really in with the seamstresses, you can see something in a magazine and say, How you going girls, you couldn t just run me up one of those, could you?’”

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    On growing older gracefully:

    "Some things get better with age. Like me."

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    On the perils of a signature image:

    “I get real sick of the skulls and shit. The image thing is a ball and chain. There’s nobody like Keith Richards that would ever be alive. No way. But you can’t buck the image.”

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    On having his own style icons:

    “Why should I . . . I am one!”