"You can’t learn how to be elegant; you can only learn how to avoid mistakes. The rest is instinct. Elegance is about the way you cross your legs, not the label or the newest clothes from the latest collection.

It's often the case that what a women reads makes her more attractive and more elegant than what she wears. 

Yves Saint Laurent once said that the purpose of clothes is to make women more beautiful but that a coat must never attract more attention than the woman wearing it."

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Carine Roitfeld

Former Vogue Editor and model