The dress must not hang on the body but follow its lines. When a woman smiles the dress must smile with her.

Insofar as one can talk of a Vionnet school, it comes mostly from my having been an enemy of fashion. There is something superficial and volatile about the seasonal and elusive whims of fashion which offends my sense of beauty.

I only like decoration if it plays second to the architecture of a dress.

The dress must not hang on the body but follow its lines. When a woman smiles the dress must smile with her.

Taste is the feeling that permits one to tell the difference between what is beautiful and what is merely spectacular.

If a woman smiles, her dress must also smile.