Elegance
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Elegance is an attribute. It means something is unusually effective and simple, or in other words; very useful and easy.
Example
Visual stimuli are considered elegant if a small number of colors and stimuli are used. The color white is often associated with elegance, usually along with blue or black.
Use
It is often used as a standard of tastefulness or how likeable something is, mostly in fashion and decoration.
Common conceptions
Some associate elegance with simplicity of design. Others understand the word in an opulent light as in tasteful richness of design or ornamentation, like in "the elegance of clothings."
Elegance Media
Elegance of the Epoque by Frédéric Soulacroix
An example of "beauty in method"—a simple and elegant proof of the Pythagorean theorem.