Phoebe Philo Quotes

Being a grown-up woman doesn't mean you can't look beautiful, individual and different.

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

When we hear the word 'beauty', we inevitably think that beauty belongs in a special elite realm where only the extraordinary dwells. Yet without realizing it, each day each one of us is visited by beauty. When you actually listen to people, it is surprising how often beauty is mentioned. A world without beauty would be unbearable.

I don't like women who follow fashion in the sense of becoming victims of it. I like women who have elegance, who have allure, who use fashion, rather than the other way around.

I think all beautiful women have a clean look. They like things that are simple.

Beauty and grace are performed whether or not we sense them.

Elegance has nothing to do with fashion.

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

I really want to make clothes that are feminine and help women look beautiful.

There's a real power in heels and a good dress.

There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Beauty is a combination of qualities. I don't think one can deny that certain people or things feel aesthetically pleasing. But without an equally pleasing being behind that form, there is no beauty there.

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.

The Chanel woman is slender, sophisticated and chic.

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

I'm a fan of designers and clothes that look beautiful, but more importantly, make me feel beautiful and confident. It's why I've always loved Stella McCartney, and more recently, Prabal Gurung. Their pieces are cool, yet timeless, and the fits are effortlessly flattering.

Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.

I have a really beautiful mother. She is close to 60, and to this day doesn't wear a speck of make up or dye her hair, and everyone who meets her is completely dazzled by her. She seriously glows.

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.

Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.