You are very familiar with Western ways, but you are too young. You go everywhere to follow the big news, but the questions you ask are too simple -- sometimes naive.
Fashion fades, only style remains the same.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Who knows most, doubts most.
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.
My color is black. And black, if it's worn right, is a scandal.
Elegance is refusal.
Rawness and refinement are not opposite ends of a luxurious spectrum... they are two complementary features with which to populate a luxe environment.
Although people often equate them, glamour is not the same as beauty, stylishness, luxury, celebrity, or sex appeal. It is not limited to fashion or film; nor is it intrinsically feminine. It is not a collection of aesthetic markers - a style, as fashion and design use the word.
The people of Northern Italy are the most civilized people I have ever met.
Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.
Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.
The pocket square, properly contrived, finishes a man's look. With good tailoring and well chosen neckwear, the look connotes power, taste, refinement, manners. The naked pocket connotes the opposite: working class, tasteless, base, crude, ignorant.
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.
The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children.
Advanced cultures are usually sophisticated enough, or have been sophisticated enough at some point in their pasts, to realize that foxes shouldn't be relied on to guard henhouses.
I want to be as feminine and classic as possible.
Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
Luxury and style have been key elements in all my projects.
Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity
I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.
For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion. Fashions come and go, but style is forever.
I got my style from my mom, she was a classy lady.
We have created a Star Wars civilization but we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. That's dangerous.
