Good manners on a man are like wearing an exquisite suit. They never go out of style

Traveling is so complicated. There are so many people everywhere. I make my best journeys on my couch.

The hat is not for the street: it will never be democratized. But there are certain houses that one cannot enter without a hat. And one must always wear a hat when lunching with people whom one does not know well. One appears to one's best advantage.

Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only.

True elegance consists not in having a closet bursting with clothes, but rather in having a few well-chosen numbers in which one feels totally at ease.

I wholeheartedly welcomed Charles de Gaulle eulogy of French valour, to which he attributed the liberation of Paris.