Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

The word "elegance" is a bit different now.

simplicity is the key of elegance

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

True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

I am from the planet of elegance.

Elegance is elimination.

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

Elegance is something more than ease; it is more than a freedom from awkwardness or restraint. It implies, I conceive, a precision, a polish, a sparkling, spirited yet delicate.

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

I think elegance is always going to be there.

Elegance has nothing to do with fashion.

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

The Chanel woman is slender, sophisticated and chic.

I love fashion, beauty, glamour. It's the mark of civilisation.

Italian style is a natural attitude. It is about a life of good taste. It doesn't have to be expensive. Simple but with good taste. Luxury is possible to buy. Good taste is not.

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

What is elegance? Soap and water!

For better or for worse, in 'The Last Savage,' I have dared to do away completely with fashionable dissonance, and in a modest way, I have endeavored to rediscover the nobility of gracefulness and the pleasure of sweetness.

What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?

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've never been a much of a glamour girl.

Glamour to me is about remaining graceful and understated.

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.