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

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

Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.

Somebody can feel elegant without being elegant. It's a personality.

I don't really believe in elegance. Ever since I first came to France many years ago to do the Chambre Syndicale course, I always felt I was somehow lacking, first of all being British - obviously a disaster! But I was also puzzled with this idea that you have to tie your Hermes scarf just right, or you can only wear black.

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

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.