Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

People laughed at the way I dressed, but that was the secret of my success. I didn't look like anyone.

An elegant woman should be able to do her marketing without making housewives laugh. Those who laugh are always right.

I trained myself. Long ago, `Boy' [Arthur] Capel introduced me to 'Bludgeon the Poor!' (Assommons les pauvres!) which, rejecting resignation, informed my moral outlook for life.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

I set the fashion for a quater of a century. Why? Because i knew how to express my own time.

Fashion is in the sky, the streets, fashion has to do with ideas, the way in which we live, the events surrounding us.