Quotes About Elegance

It makes me cross when I hear people say, 'It's so last season.' I always say, 'It's vintage.'

I am more vintage than I am high fashion.

My mother, Robin Bell, is the master of balancing the finite line between classic and creative when it comes to fashion. Mom has no qualms about unleashing the pinking shears on a vintage Givenchy dress if it means she'll wear it more once it's sleeveless.

What I always loved about vintage clothes is that you let the woman who wore it before you live on in some way.

I like vintage dresses that I can just slip on.

I don't think fashion has to change every five minutes. I'd like these to be clothes you can wear for a long time - ten, 20 years; pass on to your daughter. Why buy vintage when you can open your own closet!

My style is quite clean, vintage, and almost French in a way.

I like vintage shopping, but I also like to mix in high-end.

Christina Hendricks is still one of my favorite people to dress because she has this old Hollywood, vintage quality to how she likes to get ready.

I'm more girly but I also wanted to pull off the vintage, Hollywood glamour slightly circus style.

I will buy Victorian tea dresses and the like, but I don't really think about them as investment pieces - just beautiful and vintage things.

I have this vintage Valentino clutch. Ughhh, it's so pretty! Also, I'm not a big fur person, but I'll do a vintage fur every now and then.

I like to look casual yet chic. I love high fashion, vintage, and places like Zara, of course.

I love working with silk because I loved it paired with jeans: it has a vintage feel; it's easy for dinners out.

A lot of people say, 'I always knew Lucky Luciano as a very smooth, very elegant, very powerful man.' All the accounts of him as an older man were that he was very genteel but he still had the look of smothered violence behind his eyes.

Violet Chachki - I'm a huge fan of her work.

What is it about the cut of certain clothes that signals 'VIP?' Men's Brioni suits and Charvet shirts are famous for it.

Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

The orchid's association in Chinese culture with such virtues as elegance, good taste, friendship, and fertility goes all the way back to Confucius himself, who was said to have a particular attachment to the flowers.

On the videos for '1234' and 'My Moon My Man' I wanted to make the songs visible. And, really, what way can you make sound visible other than good old naive dancing? I was working with a choreographer, but I'm not a dancer. Any notion of elegance is impossible with me.

The key to transforming your look with a collar is ensuring that it looks as if it's part of the dress, so there shouldn't be any skin visible underneath.

True love is not only blind, but too gallant to ask a lady's age.