Quotes About Sophistication

I'm still one of those persons who prefers to wear pants, especially for at-home entertaining.

I like the simplicity of a halter-top or plunging neckline, but I'll rough it up by wearing studded shoes and my leather jacket.

When I wear Chanel, I feel like I'm not just wearing clothes: I'm wearing Chanel.

When I'm wearing too-high heels and swaying my hips, I do that Sharon Stone kind of thing - she has the sexiest walk, a New York cool thing that throws you back.

There's almost a T-shirt feeling to wearing my evening dresses.

Wearing a tuxedo isn't as simple as it sounds. I've been to a lot of award shows in Hollywood over the years and have seen some pretty sad tuxes. It's surprisingly easy to go off the rails.

I never feel more confident and comfortable than when I'm wearing a Tom Ford suit.

If a woman is bed-heady and it doesn't look put on, it's pretty sexy. But when a woman is wearing a really smart dress with great heels and her hair is pulled back, that's terribly sexy too - like an Audrey Hepburn kind of thing.

If a French woman wears jeans, it's never with flats - always heels.

My biggest challenge in making 'The Devil Wears Prada' was simply to maintain a tone of sophistication and reality. It's about the fashion world, or it's set in the fashion world, and that's a world that's easy to mock. It's easy to satirise people trying to lose weight and choosing between fancy clothes.

Audiences are so much more sophisticated than they've ever been. They expect a lot more. I don't think because it's an hour of your Thursday night rather than an hour and a half of your weekend that you should be gypped at all in quality.

Poise is a word that seems to have slipped out of the lexicon. There's no emoji for it.

Perhaps misguidedly, I always admire the people who are so polished.

I have become politically correct now. I have curbed my enthusiasm. I am in my mid-40s, so it doesn't make sense to talk brashly like a 20-year-old.

Polo drifts gently in and out of fashion.

On one level, there's an aspirational quality to having a Polo player. On another level, it's just a great shirt with lots of colors.

Even if it's a polo shirt and chinos, they should be the best possible quality and fit perfectly.

I really like the way 'Bond' girls are portrayed on screen.

There's a difference between being posh and being rich.

I can do posh.

Europe's sense of fashion is too high-end and posh for my liking.

You must, if it's possible, be born with a kind of elegance. It's part of you, of yourself.

To me, a Harris Tweed jacket is the kind of thing you should be able to have in your closet years from now - possibly it was your father's jacket or, even better, your grandfather's jacket.

I think The Row skews toward an older market - an educated consumer who's been shopping for years.