What/who embodies sophistication for you?

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Just watching the Sound of Music with DD (her latest obsession).

Watching the Baroness with grownup eyes and she does it for me: not only does she dress beautifully but she has a sense of humour (the boat scene) and then departs the fray gracefully when she realises that the Captain loves Maria, even before he realises. I want to be like her.

Celine Dion - she's very graceful

OP, I've never thought about that, but it's so true. The baroness is a classy lady.

For me, it's Erin O'Connor. She's so beautiful and classy.

@TheScurrilousFunge I think she was a woman ahead of her time!! She refused to demean herself by fighting dirty to keep a man she knew didn't love her, and she also pushed the two of them together. As well as.being witty, graceful and beautiful. She's amazing.

Patsy Stone, a true lady 🥂

Luna De Casanova. Beauty, charm, elegance, humour and kindness combined.

Well i always think posh crisps are the height of sophistication

Audrey Hepburn, the epitome of elegance and sophistication

Hivequeen....i agree

Another one - quite fittingly, Miranda Priestly from the Devil Wears Prada. Not her personality of course, but her fashion taste

After Eight mints. Very sophisticated.

Do book characters count? Rebecca De Winter.

People who can strike up an easy conversation with absolutely anyone, at any time.

Kristen Scott Thomas has a sort of haughty sophistication. Too icy for me.

Grace Kelly and Audrey Hepburn.

@CosyAcorn given that I started the thread with a largely fictional character (or at least a fictional depiction of a real person) then I'd say absolutely yes.

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Do book characters count? Rebecca De Winter.

Yes! So much more interesting than her successor

I would say Bree from Desperate Housewives.

Joanna Lumley (but maybe not in her Patsy incarnation).

For me it's the Hotel Inspector, Alex Polizzi. Classy, intelligent, kind and funny. Natural.

" a young woman out there who will never be a nun" - Love the baroness!

Audrey Hepburn is too pixie to be sophisticated. Katherine all the way.

The queen.

I love Katherine Hepburn, a very strong, smart woman. But I don't really think of her as sophisticated.

Gillian Anderson in The Fall. I think it's the silk blouses.

Another vote for Joanna Lumley.
She even made sophisticated little slippers for living in a cave in the middle of nowhere.

My first thoughts were Honor Blackman and Joanna Lumley.

Selina Scott
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