Women need to be beautiful to be loved by men, and stupid enough to love them.

It's always better to be underdressed.

I was the one who changed, it wasn't fashion. I was the one who was in fashion.

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.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

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 consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the sky, and I do not think that any invention of the human spirit could have a more graceful or precise origin.