- "A beautiful dress may look beautiful on a hanger, but that means nothing. It must be seen on the shoulders, with the movement of the arms, the legs, and the waist."
- "A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous."
- "A girl should be two things: who and what she wants."
- "A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant."
- "A woman should wear perfume wherever she wants to be kissed."
- "A woman who cuts her hair is about to change her life."
- "A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future."
- "Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!"
- "Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door."
- "Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman."
- "Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress."
- "Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future."
- "Fashion changes, but style endures."
- "Fashion is made to become unfashionable."
- "Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening"
- "I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all."
- "I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny."
- "I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men."
- "I imposed black; it still going strong today, for black wipes out everything else around."
- "I wanted to give a woman comfortable clothes that would flow with her body. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed."
- "In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different."
- "It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him. … I’m neither smart nor stupid, but I don’t think I’m a run-of-the-mill person. I’ve been in business without being a businesswoman, I’ve loved without being a woman made only for love. The two men I’ve loved, I think, will remember me, on earth or in heaven, because men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness. I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice."
- "Men always remember a woman who caused them concern and uneasiness."
- "My life didn't please me, so I created my life."
- "Only those with no memory insist on their originality."
- "Passion goes, Boredom remains."
- "Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance."
- "Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity."
- "The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."
- "There are people who have money and people who are rich."
- "There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time."
- "Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony."
- "You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life."
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