There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a caterpillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night.

There is no fashion for the old.

Beauty comes when fashion succeeds

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.

Eat less than you think you want, eat with your intelligence, not your stomach. Never get up from the table with an inward, silent apology for being a pig.

Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face.