Virgin Blue - Voyeur gathers Geoffrey's Clark opinions about the secrets and symbols of style.

“Really good style is timeless,” concurs Geoff Clark, principal of Sydney-based The Country Trader – a dealer in high quality antiques.

“There are fads in fashion and people’s emotive states change. For instance, I think Australians have been through a stage where people wanted to be calm and not to avant-garde, but they are now becoming worldlier and more experienced with a whole range of different influences. But great style will weather time and will survive those changes.

STYLE SYMBOLS

Geoff Clark, principal of The Country Trader

“For me it’s the city of Paris. It’s peerless in terms of culture, lifestyle, history and the future. The future in Paris is very interesting because the city is doing a lot of incredibly contemporary things, like the glass pyramid in the middle of the Louvre, and it works so well. The way people talk, eat, dress and live in Paris – everything they do is about style.”

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