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

J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

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.

Women must tell men always that they are the strong ones. They are the big, the strong, the wonderful. In truth, women are the strong ones. It is just my opinion, I am not a professor.

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.

Elegance comes from being as beautiful inside as outside.

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