“I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous.”

No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love.

[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style.

Fashions fade, style is eternal.

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

I’m so secluded. Very alone.

I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes–but one must preserve its dignity as clothing.

Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don’t burn your wings.

Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun.

The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street.

There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.

Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn’t learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish.

For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion.

I tried to show that fashion is an art. For that, I followed the counsel of my master Christian Dior and the imperishable lesson of Mademoiselle Chanel.

I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.

Giving me strength to shoot for more than I think I’m capable of.

Humans have a tendency to want to reciprocate, so the more you show you’re looking out for someone

Some argue that recognition of the genocide has become even more problematic now

The more likely that person will begin to keep you in mind as well.

For me it’s more important to look at each constituency individually and find a community

The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.

Frankly I have much more faith in what they posted than what they say during the course of an interview.

That best choice usually requires more effort and more thought, but, undeniably, the results are worth it.