Elegance And Fashion Quotes & Sayings

Fashion sighs after trends. I want timeless elegance.
Fashion has no time. I do. I say: Hello Lady, how can I help you?
Fashion has no time to even ask such a question, because it is constantly concerned with finding out: What will come next?
It is more about helping women to suffer less, to attain more freedom and independence. — Yohji Yamamoto

Wear your treasure and you will be Treasured — Treasure Stitches

Elegance is timeless. It withstands trend; It withstands the commercialization of what fashion and style have become. — Zac Posen

I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic. — Nate Lowman

I've tried to find a new elegance. It's not easy because people want to be shocked. They want explosive fashion. But explosions don't last, they disappear immediately and leave nothing but ashes. — Giorgio Armani

Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside. — Coco Chanel

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance. — Coco Chanel

Fashion is nothing more than the temporary custom of rich and idle people who make it their principal business to study the external elegance of life. — Philip Gilbert Hamerton

I connect fashion to other peoples' elegance, but not my own. I don't think I've ever felt elegant. I've felt appropriate, but never elegant, and I wonder what that must be like. I like it when other people are elegant - I prefer it - but I can't do it myself. I honestly think it's some form of autistic disorder. — Douglas Coupland

Elegance is a discipline of life. — Oscar De La Renta

Elegance is a question of personality, more than one's clothing. — Jean Paul Gaultier

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale. — Karl Lagerfeld

Ladies should also remember that gentlemen look more to the effect of a dress in setting off the figure and countenance of a lady than to its cost. Very few gentlemen have any idea the value of ladies' dresses. This is a subject for female criticism. Beauty of person and elegance of manners in women will always command more admiration from the opposite sex than beauty, elegance or costliness of clothing.
The Scholars' Companion and Ball Room Vade Mecum
Thomas Hillgrove, 1857 — Thomas Hillgrove

I like to think that I can introduce people to the idea of simplicity and elegance. — Giorgio Armani

The most pleasant and alluring curve on a woman is the smile — Treasure Stitches

I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesn't date. — Alice Temperley

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony. — Paulo Coelho

You must remember, Madame Harris, elegance is in the details. — Lynn Sheene

Fashion anticipates ... elegance is a state of mind. — Oleg Cassini

Real elegance is everywhere, especially in the things that don't show. — Christian Dior

Fashion is an expression of the times. Elegance is something else again. — Horst P. Horst

Fabrics doesn't make exquisite dresses, it is the stitches. — Treasure Stitches

The well dressed man never stands out in a crowd; his elegance sets him apart. — Oscar De La Renta

Never use the word "cheap". Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans - it's up to you. — Karl Lagerfeld

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony. — William Ellery Channing

Fashion is not a real element of beauty in external objects; and to persons who possess a good endowment of Form, Constructiveness and Ideality, intrinsic elegance is much more pleasing and permanently agreeable, than forms of less merit, recommended merely by being new. Hence there is a beauty which never palls, and there are objects over which fashion exercises no control. — George Combe

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. — Liz Goldwyn

Fashion design is so diverse. It does not have clear identities as before with Balenciaga, Chanel, Cardin, Courreges. Design is about being recognised without a label. Elegance alone is not sufficient, — Pierre Cardin

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing? — Yves Saint-Laurent

Men expect too much, do too little,
Put the contraption before the accomplishment,
Lack skill of the interior mind
To fashion dignity with shapes of air.
Luxury, yes but not elegance! — Allen Tate

Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance! — Coco Chanel

The elegance is as physical, as moral quality that has nothing common with the clothing. You can see a countrywoman more elegant than one so called elegant woman. — Karl Lagerfeld

Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of the future, and should never be static. — Oleg Cassini

His account books reflect a concern with fashion, as shown by periodic visits to a French tailor, and his sartorial elegance is confirmed in portraits. In one painting, he wears a double-breasted coat with brass buttons and gilt-edged lapels, his neck swathed delicately in a ruffled lace jabot. — Ron Chernow

Elegance has nothing to do with fashion. — Karl Lagerfeld

Humility is the best dress you can wear — Treasure Stitches

Elegance is not standing out, but being remembered. — Giorgio Armani

They learned to live contently with small things, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy not respectable, and to be rich not wealthy. They let the sacred and unconscious bloom amidst the common, rendering it all extraordinary. — David Paul Kirkpatrick

Elegance is refusal. — Coco Chanel