I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.

It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.

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

Before me no one would have dared dress in black

Scheherezade is easy; a little black dress is difficult.

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

I simply value Arthur Capel friendship. And even so, he knows very little about me.