There is no word in English for chic. Why should there be? Everything chic is by legend French. Perhaps everything chic is in reality French.

Style doesn't change every month or every year. It only changes as often as there is a real change in the point of view and lives of the people for whom it is produced.

being chic not only takes a great deal of money but an enormous amount of time. It practically precludes everything else, even being on charity committees. Half of one's time goes getting chic, the other half being seen that way.

Is woman a lost sex? If so, is she the only lost sex? Has woman alone conceived all the vipers in our land?

It is impossible to be completely abstract about clothes because they have no life unless they are worn. They must fit onto a body or they do not exist.

Women want to wear what they do because of what goes on in their heads. Their size and shape have practically nothing to do with it.

All one really requires for putting anything over is enough energy and resistance to keep on plugging the idea. Someone will eventually fall.