Jidenna Quotes

A custom-tailored suit retains a certain dignity about it.

Men have got more of a discerning eye. They appreciate cut and details, things that aren't so obvious. They like things that have cachet and gentlemanliness.

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

I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun.

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.

Luxury is not about the things that you own. It is about something that reflects your personal values, something that shows the choices that you have made in your life.

Style is doing things not in any way but in the best way.

I think the time is ripe for a return to the refinement of lifestyle that the pocket watch embodies. A personal pleasure that you know you have in your pocket, which requires an elegant gesture to use and show to others.

Style has replaced elegance. Before, I believed that style is something a person embodied. But now it's so easy to buy good style if you have the money.

A little jewellery on a man is OK, although he should never wear too much. Every man should always have a great watch.

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

For me, style is essentially doing things well. If you want to be outrageous, be outrageous with style. If you want to be restrained, be restrained with style. One can't specifically define style. It's like the perfume to a flower. It's a quality you can't analyze.

AERIN is saturated with the qualities that have surrounded me my entire life, many of which came from my grandmother, Estee: passion, style, hard work, family, and, of course, all things beautiful.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

I am from the planet of elegance.

I'm always drooling over great design, from fashion to furniture.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.

Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth; they are not playing with the inner character.

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

Taste is more to do with manners than appearances. Taste is both myth and reality; it is not a style.

The Louis Vuitton woman is more about a quality - a quality within some women that needs to come forward, to be noticed and recognised.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

I take my work very seriously, and that's the only way for it to be fun for me.

I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.