Jacqueline de Ribes Quotes
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My childhood lacked affection and ambience.
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I was very sensitive. I liked everything that touched fantasy and beauty. I dreamed of being a ballerina, but Mother said I was too big, too long.
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The theory in great families was 'why work if you don't have to.' Being a public figure was reserved for movie stars.
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I never throw things out because they are old. I wear my favourite clothes until they are indecent.
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Elegance. It's an attitude. A frame of mind. An intuition, a refusal, a rigor, a research, a knowledge. The attitude of elegance is also a way of behaving.
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I totally disagree with Christian Dior, who once said the one could never look sexy and be elegant at the same time. It is just more difficult that's all.
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Being a public figure was reserved for movie stars.
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Clothes, like good architecure, have to correspond to a rhythm of life. You can't be elegant without being graceful, and you can't be graceful if you're not at ease.
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Style is what makes you different, it's your own stamp, a message about yourself.
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You must remember that you're never going to be sexy for everyone. You are sexy for someone and for someone alse you are not. Being totally nude is not sexy. The art of being sexy is to suggest. To let people have fantasy.
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My mirror, my only truthful advisor.
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Glamorous people bring something to others. They are seductive attractive - and it has nothing to do with frivolity. Glamour sticks to people. An object is not glamorous, but places where people go are glamorous. That's why New York is the glamour capital of the world.