Who is the most Elegant lady?

[Caroline]

Elegant as in elegance.

here are the names of pictures

Nicole Kidman
Monica Bellucci
Princess Mary (Denmark)
Liv Tyler
Kate Winslet
Keira Knightley
Jennifer Lopez
Audrey Tautou
Kirsten Dunst
Lucy Liu
Milla Jovovich
Juliette Binoche

[hobbes]

Gwyneth Paltrow is elegant as well.

You know, it is funny that even though some women appear elegant, I still don't find them particularly attractive. I think we can all spot an elegant person, but I wonder exactly what this means to the brain and eye. Is it "sleekness"- long and lean with precise facial features.



I was not familiar with Audrey Tautou. I think this picture is a bit more flattering

[Biggles]

Audrey Tautou was the star of Amelie a rather odd but very funny French feel good movie. Worth a squint at.


I voted for Keira, but I would have considered Sophie Marceau if available.

[manker]

Definitely Audrey Tautou.

I don't think American women can be elegant.

Elegance is the whole package so a woman with a lazy diction won't fit. Most British women can't be elegant either, just certain posh ones. Blonde women aren't elegant because they put me in mind of a Germanic descent, and those folk are typical of cursory movement and harsh vocal enunciation.

African women, while undeniably sexy, don't have the dainty features that I associate with elegance and Asian females often do not exude an air of self confidence to promote elegance to the observer - while apparently meeting several other criteria.

Certainly, a lady of South America can typify elegance but I believe that the especially elegant women have French or Spanish genes. Italian women can fit the bill but similar to their South American counterparts are often heavier framed.

Show me a lithe Mademoiselle or a svelte Senorita and I'll show you elegance.



Obviously I am guilty of blasé stereotyping but I did not mean to cause consternation.

[hobbes]

Yes, perhaps "elegance" can only be perpetuated by illusion.

The foreign accents sound "sexy and mysterious" and they can't say enough we can understand to realize they are babbling idiots.

I remember a line from the Shawshank Redemption when Andy Dufresne played a song over the intercom.

Red comments:

"I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about.
The truth is, I don't want to know.
Some things are best left unsaid.

I like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can't be expressed in words and makes your heart ache because of it."

Or as my Vietnamese friend likes to say: Shut up and simply be beautiful.

[Lilmiss]

Since I'm not on the list , I voted Lucy Lui.

[RealitY]

Yup Lucy is rather aint she...

[worldpease]

Even before entering this tread, I thought of her, so
definitively Nicole Kidman, she is the most beautiful elegant lady,
I love her since, ever... she is beautiful.

Lucy Liu, ooh Yea, that girl is the sexiest there is, I could stare at the pictures I have of her for hours, I'll stop now, im starting to think nasty things.

[Caroline]

Moderators thankyou for fixing the poll.
Yes i thought about Sophie Marceau but went for Juliette Binoche instead.
Gweneth Paltrow was definetly an option but...
I forgot to put in Monica Bellucci

[MagicNakor]

A very classy lady, both onscreen and off.