The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

I've always remained totally myself, which is to say, without an idea... of what to do.

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.

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

You know the greatest thing is passion, without it what have you got? I mean if you love someone you can love them as much as you can love them but if it isn’t a passion, it isn’t burning, it isn’t on fire, you haven’t lived.

I'm for everybody. There are no set rules. But if one's not a joiner. To hell with all of them!

You've got to have style, it helps you get out of bed in the morning.