Carine Roitfeld Quotes

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

'GQ,' you've been patiently and stylishly educating me forever. To be truly stylish, you have to be kind and courteous.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

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

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.

The Chanel woman is slender, sophisticated and chic.

I am from the planet of elegance.

Men with style are great because they have a sense of self.

When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you. Your posture is a little more erect; your shoulders are a little further back; your style is a little more dynamic. It's about the reestablishment of the gentleman.

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

Elegance is elimination.

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

Elegance is refusal.

Glamour to me is about remaining graceful and understated.

I try to be elegant.

Tasteful rather than expensive.

Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.

The word "elegance" is a bit different now.

Money does not make you look expensive, it’s taste.

I think elegance is always going to be there.

Elegance has nothing to do with fashion.

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.

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