Vogue always did stand for people's lives. I mean, a new dress doesn't get you anywhere; it's the life you're living in the dress, and the sort of life you had lived before, and what you will do in it later.

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

All creations demand greenery of spirt. 

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

Don't you loathe the word "workaholic"? It has nothing to do with an important thing, that you and your secretary are at the office until 6:30. But that's life, kiddo. 24-hour work doesn't go on in America. 24-hour work is what Italy and Holland did after the war. The lights never went out!

Still, my dream in life is to come home and think of absolutely nothing. After all, you can’t think all the time.

You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.