Elegance is about grace and style
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Elegance is getting to the very soul of what one is …
- For me, elegance is not to pass unnoticed but to get to the very soul of what one is. Christian Lacroix
- That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live. Gianni Versace
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… choosing clothes to suit your personality
- It is possible for a woman to be elegant without spending very much money on her clothes, if she follows the basic rules of Fashion and is careful to choose the clothes that suit her personality. Christian Dior
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Elegance is simplicity
- Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo da Vinci
- Like all magnificent things, it’s very simple. Natalie Babbitt
- In character, in manner, in style, in all the things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Simplicity, carried to an extreme, becomes elegance. Jon Franklin
- Simplicity is the key note of all elegance. Coco Chanel
- I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply. Bell Hooks
- Don’t get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity. Mark Hyman
- Simplicity
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Elegance is far more than just what you wear
- Elegance isn’t solely defined by what you wear. It’s how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read. Carolina Herrera
- Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress. Coco Chanel
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Elegance is forgetting what you’re wearing
- Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing? Yves Saint Laurent
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Elegance is a state of mind
- The only real elegance is in the mind; If you’ve got that, the rest really comes from it. Diana Vreeland
- Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind. Oleg Lolewski Cassini
- Attitude
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Elegance is about being remembered
- Elegance is not about being noticed, it is about being remembered. Giorgio Armani
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Elegance is timeless and does not fade
- Prettiness fades after a few years, but elegance only increases with age. Anne Gracie
- Elegance is the only beauty that never fades. Audrey Hepburn
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Elegance is good taste plus a dash of daring
- Elegance is good taste plus a dash of daring. Carmel Show
- Risk taking
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Elegance is refusal
- Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal. Diana Vreeland
- Elegance is refusal. Coco Chanel
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Elegance is naturalness and care
- I will only say now that elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care and simplicity. Outside this, believe me, there is no elegance. Only pretension. Christian Dior
- Caring
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Elegance is a glowing inner peace
- Elegance is a glowing inner peace. Grace is an ability to give as well as to receive and be thankful. Mystery is a hidden laugh always ready to surface! Glamour only radiates if there is a sublime courage & bravery within: glamour is like the moon; it only shines because the sun is there. C. JoyBell C.
- Inner peace
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Elegance is precision and polish and freedom from awkwardness
- Elegance is something more than ease – more freedom from awkwardness and restraint. It implies a precision, a polish and a sparkling which is spirited, yet delicate. Hazlitt
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Elegance is virtue
- If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure. Marcel Proust
- A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart. Henry Fielding
- Elegance is inferior to virtue. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- The elegance of honesty needs no adornment. Merry Browne
- Virtue
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Elegance does not need to be expensive
- Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans — it’s up to you. Karl Lagerfeld
- It is possible for a woman to be elegant without spending very much money on her clothes, if she follows the basic rules of Fashion and is careful to choose the clothes that suit her personality. Christian Dior
- Frugality
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Elegance is not wealth
- Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty. Benjamin Disraeli
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Elegance is not snobbery
- We must never confuse elegance with snobbery. Yves Saint-Laurent
- Pride, Arrogance
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Elegance is the very opposite of vulgarity
- I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it. Coco Chanel
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Seek elegance rather than luxury
- To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common – this is my symphony. William Ellery Channing
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On a lighter note
- An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms. Salvador Dali
- What is elegance? Soap and water! Cecil Beaton
- Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled. Mark Twain
- To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance. Jean Genet
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