If it isn't a passion, it isn't burning, it isn't on fire, you haven't lived.

Naturally, I’ve always been mad about clothes. You don’t get born in Paris to forget about clothes for a minute.

The hottest thing in the world is to wear pants with stockings.

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

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.

Oh, but I think that thoughtfulness and manners are everything.

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.