Elegant Life

"To be noticed without striving to be noticed, this is what elegance is about."

— Luciano Barbera

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"It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics."

— Richard Dawkins

Valentino Haute Couture Spring/Summer 2012

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"My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Schipper/Arques

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Richard Diebenkorn

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"This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don’t want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste."

— Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

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Lara Stone by Philip Riches

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Eva Green

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"If you compare it with philosophy [fashion] is frivolous. But frivolity may be something good, something that is part of our lives. So I don’t dislike it. And what I like is the mix — that in your life you can have serious things, more frivolous ones. Fashion is about beauty and the search for beauty, I think it’s a fundamental thing. No one criticizes if you want to do beautiful homes. No one criticizes if you want to buy a beautiful chair. But so many intellectuals still criticize why you want to wear beautiful clothes, and it’s only our body, so it must be important in a way."

— Miuccia Prada