How to Be an Elegant Woman?

An elegant woman doesn’t fart… she liberates flowers
An elegant woman lives trapped under others’ opinions…
An elegant woman lives her whole life under her mother’s feet
An elegant woman does not add up, she just pays

What does it mean to be an elegant woman? A distinguished woman, endowed with grace, cultured, discreet and stylish? In these vignettes full of humour, sarcasm and irony, Sol Díaz displays a catalogue of answers to these questions that are far from those established by social conventions. Because we have all been taught to be elegant, always smiling, decent, kind and discreet. We wear pearl necklaces, long dresses, petticoats, girdles and heels… but few know that within that elegance hides a wild, intuitive, free woman willing to ride her she-wolf without fear for life.

Key points

• Vignettes full of humour and sarcasm, with simple, explicit and irreverent black and white drawings accompanied by a phrase in her own handwriting.
• It is a graphic reflection on the social conventions surrounding women’s daily lives and decisions.
• It humorously breaks the stereotype of femininity, sophistication and good manners by presenting the different types of elegance, with all their contradictions: women who are wild, free, insecure or with a firm step.
• It explores themes such as identity, freedom, and the questioning of the established.