I went with Tom Ford to a bunch of events one year, and he's so wonderful and handsome and so much fun to be with; he made me look, like, 100 percent better in every single picture.
According to a charming law of nature which is evident even in the most sophisticated societies, we live in complete ignorance of whatever we love.
My designs are slightly subversive in their way; it can be in the cut or the colour, but they're always obtainable: they're not so difficult that a 40-year-old woman wanting to go to a cocktail party looking foxy and a little bit different in something well-made would be alienated by them.
Oh, that character was light years away from me. I'm not debonair. I'm not suave. I did wear tight pants, though, because I found out that it worked.
Without wanting to claim that I'm really like James Bond I would certainly prefer to be thought of as closer to James Bond than Mr. Bean most definitely.
William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan, and Wilde, his nearest rivals, he was brought up in Ireland.
A leather jacket always makes you look cooler, sometimes more chic, and it elevates your look to make you look like you've purchased something expensive to set yourself apart.
I love Miu Miu for its playfulness; Chanel is cool because it's classic and edgy, and Marc Jacobs really captures the spirit of youth in my opinion.
I never know what defines you as being posh. I went to a posh school, definitely.
A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
Swanky means classy and funky.
Bin Laden is not well read and he's not sophisticated, but he will have worked out very coldly what America would do.
True simplicity is elegant.
The information society should serve all of its citizens, not only the technically sophisticated and economically privileged.
Roland Emmerich is a very interesting individual. He is more erudite and well-read than most of the people I know.
My father, Buddy Robinson, was superchic - a dandy. He always wore dinner jackets at night and espadrilles in the summer, but with his own flair. He was even well dressed when riding a tractor or listening to a ball game on the radio.
I went to my prom. I wore this olive green, floor-length backless dress. It was rad.
Parties are the nightly ritual of the sophisticated society.
Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.
Widespread personification of “society” is another verbal tactic that evades issues of individual responsibility. Such use of the term “society” is a more sophisticated version of the notion that “the devil made me do it.” Like much of the rest of the special vocabulary of the anointed, it is used as a magic word to make choice, behavior, and performance vanish into thin air.
I'd like to believe that I'm chic yet cool and casual.
If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it.
I find that if you take the various popular song forms to their logical extremes, you can arrive at almost anything from the ridiculous to the obscene-or, as they say in New York, sophisticated.
When I think of the definition of cool and when I look at people, John Travolta is really the definition of cool because, not only is he great in all his movies, but, as a person, he's just really cool.
What we have is a more sophisticated form of imperialism, which is economic. But lurking in the background, always ready to go, is an armed force.
