Jil Sander Quotes

I am a classy dame.

A man should be rugged like Steve McQueen; the way he stands, like he's ready for something. Or he should be a man of the world like Dean Martin.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

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

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

The Chanel woman is slender, sophisticated and chic.

It's not me trying to act or pose in a certain way. It's a lifestyle - like a suaveness or a swag, per se.

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

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

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.

I wish I could be elegant.

When I see grace in a woman, that's very sexy. You can tell by how someone moves or their rhythm.

True elegance for me is the manifestation of an independent mind.

The Louis Vuitton woman is more about a quality - a quality within some women that needs to come forward, to be noticed and recognised.

I think that when Michelle Pfeiffer goes out, she's exactly what I aspire to be - she always looks beautiful and sexy, but she never looks like she's trying to be the center of attention.

I like to think of myself as classy.

I want to be as feminine and classic as possible.

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.

Audrey Hepburn is a huge influence on my style. She's classy, confident, and simplistic. She's a tomboy and also super feminine.

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.

It's nice sometimes to feel a bit more debonair.

I mean always had a lot of self-confidence.

An elegant woman should be able to do her marketing without making housewives laugh. Those who laugh are always right.

I am intrigued by glamorous women ... A vain woman is continually taking out a compact to repair her makeup. A glamorous woman knows she doesn't need to.