Quotes About Elegance

Pink is the navy blue of India.

Avoid patent leather, pink, and crystals.

The first Chanel jacket that I saw - that I knew was Chanel - was on TV. It was on Mrs. Kennedy - the pink one.

Nothing ruins the lines of a suit or blazer and makes you look more like a doofus than when your pockets are crammed with stuff - a wallet, a cell phone, keys, a calculator, a calendar, pens, etc.

I once went to the Mayfair club Annabel's and the best thing about it was the Ladies. Perfumed air, exotic wallpaper, full-length mirrors - when you've had enough of the bustle, it's like having a rest in a boudoir: a female sanctuary.

Sell the public flowers... things that they can hang on their walls without being uptight.

It is a real piece of art if you can make a waltz sound like it is the easiest piece of music to play, because it's really not.

With the waltz, especially the Viennese Waltz, it looks so beautiful and effortless and flows.

I want to remind people of a different kind of glamour, a different look, and breaking the rules of fashion. I wanna break the rules.

I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.

It was always sort of my dream to make handbags and I wanted a handbag that was very sharp, very structured, very tailored... I wanted a bag you could put all of your things in it, you can open it, you could close it, you could hid all your tricks, but it's not all lumpy.

Once you start compromising, once you start trying to keep cost lower, this is not luxury. Luxury is wanting the best and using the best materials with which to do that.

People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?

My wardrobe reflects my long-standing belief that great style lives in the details.

If you walk into my wardrobe, it's kind of hilarious. It's a sea of black.

My fashion icons are Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly and Ava Gardner. Their classic looks and clean lines should be the cornerstones of your wardrobe - white cotton shirts, black Capri pants, pencil skirts and ballerina skirts.

I have always admired stylishly confident women who dress with great authority. This lifelong love of elegance began with the humble wardrobe of my late grandmother Mrs. Bennie Frances Davis.

Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'Money,' I tell them, 'is no guarantee of taste, and an overstuffed wardrobe is often as bare as a skeleton when it comes to wearable apparel.'

If you open my wardrobe, it's very boring.

If I ruled the world, every woman would have a Chanel suit in her wardrobe.

Probably the most dramatic pieces in my wardrobe would be capes.

Each individual piece is a calculated attempt to entice women to add to their wardrobe.