Don't wear excessive make-up as you grow older. Young women can wear whatever make-up they want, but if you are older, you will regret it.

I rarely go into a shop on holiday, because fashion and design are what I'm involved in every day. I need another world.

Do you know what elegance is? It is not only what you're wearing. It is how you wear it. who you are inside.

The little black dress must be luxurious, rich, sensual, diaphanous, exotic, severe, lush, demure, demanding, frivolous, amusing, and it must linger in memory, but above all, it must be simple and little and black.

You feel very romantic when you're in a ball gown. Everyone should wear one once in a while.

I find that it is much easier now for women to be in any position because, as you see, they are presidents of banks, they are prime ministers, they are doctors. Everything is about women.

If you think that you did everything and know everything and that everything has been done perfectly well, then it's time to retire.