“What is wonderful about my art is that dream and reality can become one. There is just one step between the two.”

Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation,

I’d really like to be in closer contact with life. I’m a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.

I find men’s clothing fascinating because sometime between, say, 1930 and 1936 a handful of basic shapes were created and still prevail as a sort of scale of expression, with which every man can project his own personality and his own dignity.

I couldn’t love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.

Elegance and beauty have been banished.

I love bows, … And I feel some couture pots coming on.

I created for my era and I tried to foresee what tomorrow would be.

Fashion comes and goes, but style is eternal.

I adore America. It’s an extraordinary country. A new country.

Dressing is a way of life. It brings you joy. It can give you freedom and liberation, help you to find yourself and to move without restraint. Isn’t elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

Fashions pass quickly, and nothing is more pathetic than those puppets of fashion outrageously made up one day, pale the next, pleated or ironed stiff, libertine or ascetic.

When you feel good in a clothing anything can happen.

Dressing is a way of life.

A good clothing is a passport for happiness.

A good model can advance fashion by ten years.

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

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

If you become famous and don’t have a live show to back it up, they’re not going to pay you any money.

To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.

There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don’t allow yourself to become one of them.

My goal is just to become a better comedian.

It has come with a great purpose, which I may not understand at the moment. But as I refuse to become panicky.

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.