All my life I’ve pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It’s exactly as if I’d said, ‘I want rococo with a spot of Gothic in it and a bit of Buddhist temple’—they have no idea what I’m talking about. About the best red is to copy the color of a child’s cap in any Renaissance portrait.

There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.

Fashion is part of the daily air and it changes all the time, with all the events. You can even see the approaching of a revolution in clothes. You can see and feel everything in clothes.

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

Lighting is everything in a color.

It’s not about the dress you wear, but it’s about the life you lead in the dress.

To be contented—that’s for the cows.