Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple.
Simplicity is complexity resolved
I never try to make a major fashion statement but I want to be the friend in a woman's closet. I make dresses that women get laid in.
I like to think that I can introduce people to the idea of simplicity and elegance.
You don't have to patronize your audience, and you can mix art and commerce in a profound way. You can simultaneously play to the sophisticated, 60-year-old theatergoers and to 4-year-olds.
A temperate style is alone classical.
A little black dress is something to rely on. To fill you with confidence and ease. To have an attitude that is pure and effortless, yet sexy and classy.
I like things that have to do with what is real, elegant, well presented and without excessive style. In other words, just fine observation.
The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public.
The greatest style is when you can't see the style though you walk away knowing it was there. It's like a perfume - there but not there.
Fancy restrained may be compared to a fountain, which plays highest by diminishing the aperture.
The Thirties are a great mix of everyday glamour and something a bit more practical.
That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green.
To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.
I prefer darker things and more minimal stuff. I don't like when people just put words on canvases.
A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.
