This is a great shame, but of course there have to be some things in life that not everybody can have, and great perfume is one of them.

God was fair to the Japanese. He gave them no oil, no coal, no diamonds, no gold, no natural resources — nothing! Nothing comes from the island that you can sustain a civilization on. What God gave the Japanese was a sense of style—maintained through the centuries through hard work and the disciplines of ambition.

If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.

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

Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.

We all need a splash of bad taste. No taste is what I am against.

The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.