Diana Vreeland Quotes

Elegance is refusal.

Glamour to me is about remaining graceful and understated.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

Elegance is elimination.

The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom, beauty, elegance and refinement, but not sensuality, luxury, extravagance.

True refinement seeks simplicity.

Elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care and simplicity. Outside this, believe me, there is no elegance. Only pretension.

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

There's definitely a thin line between being tasteful and tacky.

I am from the planet of elegance.

What is elegance? Soap and water!

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

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.

Less is more. You should wear earrings or bracelets, but not both.

The French like to play the intellectual card; they don't like to be over-sexy. The sexiness comes from the way they walk and hold themselves.

I try to be elegant.

Tasteful rather than expensive.

You can't learn how to be elegant; you can only learn how to avoid mistakes. The rest is instinct. Elegance is about the way you cross your legs, not the label or the newest clothes from the latest collection.

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

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

It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed.

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

A well-cut dress is my personal style. I definitely like it classic; less is more. The thing I despise most is vulgarity.

Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity