Quotes About Elegance

Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.

Being beautiful can never hurt, but you have to have more. You have to sparkle, you have to be fun, you have to make your brain work if you have one.

My weakness ... is architecture. I think of my work as ephemeral architecture, dedicated to the beauty of the female body.

To know how to produce a work of art is to know how to discard the extraneous.

It was not the story of design or clothes, it was the fantasy of women that made me want to work in fashion.

A single James creation is worth the whole output of a 7th Avenue year's work.

I hope I don't make it sound like it's this big to-do, but even putting on real cufflinks takes work.

A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.

We should work for simple, good, undecorated things

When I started to work on perfume, I could not reduce the idea of a woman to one smell.

A hundred cabinet-makers in London can work a table or a chair equally well; but no one poet can write verses with such spirit and elegance as Mr. Pope.

Steve Martin is such an exquisite and precise writer. Everything is so clear; it's like a bell. He says what he means and says it so beautifully.

There are a lot of people that I think look very good - Bryan Ferry and Jude Law dress really well, Steve McQueen was cool, and all the James Bonds have been very dapper.

I usually stick to the classic things that I know which is a nude lip and a nude eye.

Six feet three in her stocking feet, L'Wren Scott was every inch a great lady.

I love Amanda Lear, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sharon Stone.

Emma Stone, I think, always looks beautiful.

Emma Stone and Jessica Chastain are both very classic beauties.

You have to age gracefully. And that's what I love about Keith Richards. That's what I love about the Rolling Stones. They are aging gracefully. They are falling apart at the seams right before our eyes, and they are doing it gracefully. And that's the most beautiful thing that we can do.

When I was going to Paris for Paris Fashion Week, I'd often walk down the street and go into all the different shops that we didn't necessarily have in the U.K., and Maje was definitely one of the ones that stood out for me.

When I thought about the absolute favourite of favourites or what stood for the best of haute couture, it was Givenchy.

Anyone who has ever stopped to watch a hawk in flight will know that this is one of the natural world's most elegant phenomena.

I love to shop at BCBG, because it's classy and elegant but a little bit sexy. It fits who I am in one store.