Lorna Luft Quotes

I am from the planet of elegance.

Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

The Chanel woman is slender, sophisticated and chic.

'GQ,' you've been patiently and stylishly educating me forever. To be truly stylish, you have to be kind and courteous.

Men with style are great because they have a sense of self.

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

I aspired to be extremely sophisticated.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

Elegance is refusal.

The sexiest thing that a woman can do, wear, and say all fall under one word to me: subtlety. To be subtle in the things that she does and the things she says and the things she wears - I appreciate the details.

Class does not mean huge possession of money. Mother Teresa was a classy woman. So is Manjula Bhargava, a great mathematician of Indian origin. The concept that you automatically gain class by acquiring money is an outdated thought process.

I try to be elegant.

Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

I like Princess Kate. I think her style is really great. She's really, really classy and always really sophisticated.

A custom-tailored suit retains a certain dignity about it.

I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

Elegance isn't solely defined by what you wear. It's how you carry yourself, how you speak, what you read.

What is elegance? Soap and water!

I think there are very few people who have a real style, a real personality, and real beauty.

My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.

Elegance is elimination.