Yves Saint Laurent is a young man of excellent taste; the more he copies me the more taste he displays.

Fashion is not simply a matter of clothes. Fashion is in the air, born upon the wind. One intuits it. It is in the sky and on the road.

I imposed black; it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around

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

I remember confuting one of Westminster's favourite maxims, "better the devil you know than the devil you don't". In the annals of popular wisdom, this is one of the most cretinous sayings I have come across.

I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.

A woman without perfume is a woman without a future.