Balenciaga was incredibleI was madly infatuated with his clothes. His clothes were devastating. One fainted. One simply blew up and died.

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

I was always sort of a loner, I suppose. I always had to think out everything for myself... I suppose that is what you call a loner.

I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor.

I adore artifice. I always have.

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.

Allure is a word very few people use nowadays, but it's something that exists. Allure holds you, doesn't it? Whether it's a gaze or a glance in the street or a face in the crowd or someone sitting opposite you at lunch... you are held