Chic Quotes - Page 5

• A handbag is only one item to be worn with a complete outfit. Add a peony pink leather handbag to a charcoal gray suit, for instance, and the impact is chic with a touch of wit.

  Kate Spade

  Impact, Suits, Add

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• Clothes should be practical. I like the concept of easy wear. I think [86-year-old] actress Emmanuelle Riva was extremely chic. She's super stylish. At the Cesars, she was wearing this beautiful red silk dress. I don't know whose it was.

  Christophe Lemaitre

  Beautiful, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe and Anna Magnani - women who have style, chic, allure and elegance. They didn't submit to any standard of beauty - they defined it.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Beautiful, Interesting, Style

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• My mother has a very chic sense of style, but she also has high expectations for her clothes to be functional and practical.

  Joseph Altuzarra

  Mother, Clothes, Expectations

  "Designers Share Their Mother's Day Memories". Harper’s Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 2, 2011.

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• My father has always written with Mont Blanc pens. It's very chic and elegant and classic.

  Eva Green

  Father, Classic, Pens

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• Chic Murray once told me he fell in the street, and a woman said to him, "Did you fall?" He said, "No, I'm tryin' to break a bar of chocolate in my back pocket."

  Billy Connolly

  Fall, Chocolate, Pockets

  "Billy Connolly: An Audience with Billy Connolly". TV Special, October 26, 1985.

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• My style icons would be people like Brigitte Bardot and old Hollywood actresses who always look so stunning, cool and chic. I like classic and timeless looks.

  Jessica Brown Findlay

  Icons, People, Style

  "Albatross's Jessica Brown Findlay Talks Style & Kate Middleton: EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW". Grazia Daily Interview, sg.news.yahoo.com. February 7, 2012.

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• It is impossible for a hatless woman to be chic.

  Emily Post

  Impossible

  EMILY POST (1950). “ETIQUETTE”

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• It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons.

  Margaret Atwood

  Men, Drunk, Reason

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “Cat's Eye”, p.345, Hachette UK

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• I never, never photograph someone getting high to sell clothes. I was called, at some point, the person responsible for "heroin chic". I didn't have anything to do with "heroin chic".

  Nan Goldin

  Clothes, Getting High, Heroin

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• That to be an activist, you have to stay active. For me, it's profound; it's not something you choose to do every five years because it's chic to say it.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Years, Profound, Activist

  Source: time.com

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• When I was young, especially when I was at school, I thought couture was about big gowns, big hats (that is couture as well, of course) - but my couture is about going near the clothes and having a look at the details. I like people to have a shock in a chic way.

  Riccardo Tisci

  School, Clothes, People

  Source: www.dazeddigital.com

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• I'm ghetto chic, I'm where the hood and high fashion meet

  Teyana

  Fashion, Ghetto, Hood

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• Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic.

  Camille Paglia

  Party, Exercise, Black

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.181, Vintage

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• I do have a staff of what some people would consider to be very attractive, chic women. They are not on the staff because they are attractive and chic but because they care about the welfare of others.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Care, Rama

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• I want to spend as much time as possible with my children, so I always like to keep my beauty and fashion routines effortless... but still chic!

  Liya Kebede

  Fashion, Children, Want

  "4 Effortessly Chic Moms Talk Shop". Interview with Kerry Pieri, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 10, 2013.

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• You should have a certain way of dressing based on how you feel. It's appropriate for you. I think Robert Rabensteiner's a perfect example of that - he just always looks so chic.

  Tommy Ton

  Thinking, Should Have, Perfect

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Elizabeth Kennedy is so chic. Her gowns have such structure, I feel like a work of art.

  Mindy Kaling

  Art, Gowns, Structure

  "Mindy Kaling's Favorite Designer and What's Next for Her Character" by Nandini D'Souza, www.harpersbazaar.com. July 5, 2016.

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• I never thought heroin was very chic.

  Nan Goldin

  Heroin

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans — it’s up to you.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Women, Jeans

  "Karl Lagerfeld's Fashion Therapy". Harper's Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 13, 2009.

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• After waiting four long years since the Lost CHIC Tapes were recovered, I'm finally putting out our first record. I'm like a child waiting for Christmas morning.

  Nile Rodgers

  Morning, Children, Years

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• My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  People, Style, Boho

  FaceBook post by Vanessa Hudgens from May 09, 2013

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• I always like to say that it's chic to be a geek.

  Julie Larson-Green

  Geek

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• My style is casual-chic? Casual-messy?

  James Franco

  Style, Casual, Messy

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• I was told that The Chinese said they would bury me by the Western Lake and build a shrine to my memory. I have some slight regret that this did not happen, as I might have become a god, which would have been very chic for an atheist.

  Bertrand Russell

  Atheist, Memories, Regret

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Autobiography”, p.346, Routledge

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