The jean! The jean is the destructor. It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity! The jean must be stopped!

I do not believe there has ever been a name as important as Pierre Cardin in the general history of couture.

We undress men and women, we don't dress them any more.

When I finish with one thing very well, I start some other thing. I don't like to stop. I like to continually prove myself.

Fashion design is so diverse. It does not have clear identities as before with Balenciaga, Chanel, Cardin, Courreges. Design is about being recognised without a label. Elegance alone is not sufficient.

They said pret-a-porter will kill your name, and it saved me

I wash with my own soap-wear my own perfume...got to bed on my own sheets... have my own food products. I live on me.