All people are meant to be creative in a certain way. What way? Perhaps I was cut out to be a wonderful housewife, with a marvelous sense of cooking, being with my friends, running a perfect house. But I am not ambitious towards anything.

The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.

I think when you’re young you should be a lot with yourself and your sufferings. Then one day you get out where the sun shines and the rain rains and the snow snows and it all comes together.

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

I think allure is something around you, like a perfume or like a scent. It's like a memory ... it pervades.

Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.

All my life I've pursued the perfect red.