When it really comes down to it, style of any sort is only ever about tension. Art, food, fashion, music… it's always the same. It's the pull between components that gives something the creative equivalent of an electric charge. Style is somebody who is artful, or clever, or just naturally good at it and in the right light asking your brain to rectify two (or more) if not contradictory then certainly counterintuitive things at the same time. Like simultaneously patting your head and rubbing your tummy, this creates just enough cognitive dissonance to momentarily silence a person's ever-chattering monkey brain and gift them a few seconds of blissful nirvana. This, incidentally, is why dressing nicely is a highly generalised type of kindness.
During one pitstop in my illustrious and varied showbusiness career, I had the good fortune to interview a sandwich expert. "All 'classic' sandwich fillings," he informed me gravely (doing inverted comma fingers), "are just a combination of fat and acid." He considered cheese and onion the apotheosis of this truth – and as such it was his favourite flavour. As well as forevermore making the words FAT and ACID flash across the back of my eyes, unbidden, when I eat or select a sandwich, this exchange pretty much taught me everything I have subsequently needed to know about style. Let's take a look.
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