In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room - no other woman existed.

Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell - unquestionably. You just couldn't take a bad picture of those two old girls

Style; all who have it have have one thing: originality.

Every girl in the world should have geisha training

You're not supposed to give people what they want, you're supposed to give them what they don't know that they want yet.