Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.
Pleasure is everything.
I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering.
Vulgarity is a very important ingredient in life.
The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
You must understand that there's a third sex on the planet. [female living in a male world]
[Blue jeans are] the most beautiful things since the gondola.
-- Diana Vreeland
I painted this card for Brian who gave me a gondola-and-rhinestone decorated carry all for my art supplies to celebrate turning in the dissertation.