Quotes About Elegance

Winter dressing is all about having chic outerwear.

Ah, the intractable Canadian problem: Winter and finery are basically incompatible.

All my wire sculptures come from the same loop. And there's only one way to do it. The idea is to do it simply, and you end up with a shape.

For the 'Heaven' stage, the dancers and I don't use wires so we are slowly slipping down the stage if you see us up close.

Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.

I wish that the circuses that were around now felt like they did then. They're not quite as elegant or as magical as they used to be. There was something about the old tent shows, the Big Top, the canvas, the lights, the sawdust, the hay and the animals that's just missing now. Now, it's all urbanized and maybe a little garish.

I wish I could be elegant.

There were loads of plays which were very popular before and after the war, where everybody wore a dinner jacket in the third act and it was in a house that you wished you'd owned with people that you wish you knew. It was life seen through a very privileged way.

For a 'GOT' premiere, I wore a white dress by Antonio Berardi, which fitted beautifully. And I felt empowered by the Jenny Packham gown I wore for 'The Last Witch Hunter' premiere. That is the beauty of the designer - to help a woman or man feel that way.

There is no real beauty without some slight imperfection.

A statement necklace glams up any outfit without feeling like too much.

The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms.

Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

I witnessed the transformation of Melania from gold plate into twenty-four karat gold. I believed she had the heart to match.

The fashionable woman is sexy, witty, and dry-cleaned.

Thom Browne is like a wizard when it comes to clothes. Even though his suits are so shrunken, they feel like pajamas.

A woman has no need to be perfect or even beautiful to wear my dresses. The dress will do all that for her.

Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements.

When I see grace in a woman, that's very sexy. You can tell by how someone moves or their rhythm.

I like a woman that's capable and at the same time feminine. I admire tomboy qualities but with a feminine touch.

The Gucci woman can be the equestrian woman, the woman in the suit, the woman in the flowy bohemian dress, or the couture woman.

When I think about fashion and elegance, I imagine a woman from the 1950s, on an airplane, with seamed stockings and a garment belt underneath, a skirt, high heels, and her hair that she's done the night before, perfectly done eyeliner, lipstick, gloves, perhaps, and all this just to sit on an airplane for a transcontinental flight.

I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that beauty shines through.