Quotes & Sayings About Style And Elegance

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

Tossed into the Secaucus graveyard are about 25 centuries of classical culture and the standards of style, elegance and grandeur that it gave to the dreams and constructions of Western man. That turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump. — Ada Louise Huxtable

The Stockholm street style is distinctive, with ensembles that exemplify the city's understated elegance. — Aslaug Magnusdottir

Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown. — Petrarch

It doesn't matter what kind of book you write - you ought to write it well and with some kind of style and elegance. — Ruth Rendell

I couldn't define my style; that's impossible. I like comfort and elegance with a bit of glamour thrown in. If I like something, I'll wear it for years. — Jemima Khan

Properly understood, style is not a seductive decoration added to a functional structure; it is of the essence of a work of art. The necessary elements of style are lucidity, elegance, and individuality; these three qualities combine to form a preservative which ensures the nearest approximation to permanence in the fugitive art of letters. — Evelyn Waugh

Elegance is a physical quality. If a woman doesn't have it naked, she'll never it clothed. — Karl Lagerfeld

To enjoy life at its best, be an epitome of style and elegance. — Debasish Mridha

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

You can acquire chic and elegance, but style itself is a rare thing. — Irene Sharaff

Exactness of intention produces elegance of style. — Nathan Milstein

Elegance is always in style for men. — Donatella Versace

Style has replaced elegance. Before, I believed that style is something a person embodied. But now it's so easy to buy good style if you have the money. — Nicola Formichetti

Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of his style. — Edmund Burke

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

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

Elegance is a glowing inner peace. Grace is an ability to give as well as to receive and be thankful. Mystery is a hidden laugh always ready to surface! Glamour only radiates if there is a sublime courage & bravery within: glamour is like the moon; it only shines because the sun is there. — C. JoyBell C.

I wanted to give young girls something positive to look up to ... I wanted to give them their Blizzard of Aahhhs, Ski Movie or High Life, but done in a way that also shows the elegance, grace, community and style that is unique to women in the mountains. — Lynsey Dyer

I was always interested in finding the elegance of each style and understanding why it influences so many people. — Volker Bertelmann

In character, in manner, in style, in all the things, the supreme excellence is simplicity — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Andres Segovia literally created the genre of classical guitar, which hadn't existed before around 1910. There was flamenco, which he borrowed from, but he actually arranged the works of Mozart and other classical composers for guitar, something that had never been done before ... Segovias' style is not slick or contrived, but it's still very clean and his timing is impeccable ... it's got a feeling of casual elegance, as if he's sitting around the house in Spain with a jug of wine, just playing from the heart. — Roger McGuinn

My goal is never to copy. Create a new style, clear luminous colors and feel the elegance of the models. — Tamara De Lempicka

Humility is the best dress you can wear — Treasure Stitches

Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet — Terence McKenna

I want men to be more chic - and Japanese style has that kind of sophisticated elegance. — Roberto Cavalli

Elegance is always in style for men. There are all different kinds of elegance. It can be silk, it can be a T-shirt. — Donatella Versace

Elegance is refusal. — Coco Chanel

Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe and Anna Magnani - women who have style, chic, allure and elegance. They didn't submit to any standard of beauty - they defined it. — Isabella Rossellini