French style is all about je ne sais quoi. What does that mean?
Effortless chic is much admired, but pinning it down is the tricky part for those of us who aspire to emulate it.
Elise Pioch Balzac: “If you feel good in your outfit, you will look beautiful.”
When Coco Chanel said elegance is refusal, she defined – in a wonderfully apt, three-word mantra – French style.
Reams have been written about what exactly constitutes that certain je ne sais quoi that is the French sense of dressing, but ultimately, it boils down, like a fine bouillabaisse, to those three words: elegance is refusal. But of what, exactly?
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