The French legend is a very ...

The French legend is a very simple one. All really beautiful clothes are designed in the houses of the French couturiers and all women want those clothes.
 Elizabeth Hawes

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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.
 Elizabeth Hawes
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.
 Elizabeth Hawes