You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes. Too many women think that they are unimportant, but the real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet.
Christian DiorRead
Women, with their sure instincts, realized that my intention was to make them not just more beautiful but also happier.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes that women's beauty and happiness are intertwined, and that the intention behind beauty is to enhance their happiness.
Christian Dior expresses the idea that true beauty goes beyond mere appearance; it encompasses the happiness and assurance that women feel from their beauty. By recognizing that beauty should foster joy, Dior highlights the importance of feeling good about oneself, suggesting that both beauty and happiness are essential components of a fulfilling life.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about women's empowerment to highlight the importance of self-esteem.
You can never take too much care over the choice of your shoes. Too many women think that they are unimportant, but the real proof of an elegant woman is what is on her feet.
Elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care and simplicity. Outside this, believe me, there is no elegance. Only pretension.
Without foundations, there can be no fashion.
All I required to be happy was friendship and people I could admire.
Finally, everything that has been part of my life, whether I wanted it to or not, has expressed itself in my dresses.
We were emerging from the period of war, of uniforms, of women-soldiers built like boxers. I drew women-flowers, soft shoulders, fine waists like liana and wide skirts like corolla.
I grew up in a world where a woman who looks like me, with my kind of skin and my kind of hair, was never considered to be beautiful.
I _x000D_ would close down all those teenage magazines that encourage young _x000D_ girls to diet. Who says that to be pretty you have to be thin? Some _x000D_ people look better thin and some don't. There is almost a standard being _x000D_ created where only thin is acceptable. The influence of those _x000D_ magazines on girls as young as 13 is horrific.
I, like many women, buy into patriarchal standards of beauty every day. I very rarely leave the house without make-up. I dye my hair. I wear clothes that I choose carefully for how they make me look to the outside world.
How I grew to believe Black hair has power, genius, and magic in it, defying gravity and limitation. I mean, look at how marvelous it is: Black hair grows up and out.
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.
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