Robert Benton Quotes

Elegance is not being noticed, it's about being remembered.

Good style, to me, is unseen style.

Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Fashion is supposed to be light and not try too hard.

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

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

Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

Tasteful rather than expensive.

The best style is the style you don't notice.

simplicity is the key of elegance

Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.

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

I believe in art that conceals art.

Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement.

I think elegance is always going to be there.

True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.

Elegance has nothing to do with fashion.

Sexiness should not be overt. Something shapeless that drapes across your hip, hangs off the shoulder; something that cowls in the front, drapes low in the back, that's sexy.

What is chic is just to be perfect, like magical, no?

A little jewellery on a man is OK, although he should never wear too much. Every man should always have a great watch.

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

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.