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Pleasure is everything.

My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.

Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything.

What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.

Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.

God was fair to the Japanese. He gave them no oil, no diamonds. He gave them style.

Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring.

Never fear being vulgar, just boring, middle class or dull.

Balenciaga often said that women did not have to be perfect or beautiful to wear his clothes. When they wore his clothes, they became beautiful.

When I discovered dancing, I learned to dream.

I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead

Red is the great clarifier - bright and revealing. I can't imagine becoming bored with red - it would be like becoming bored with the person you love.

I adore that pink, it is the navy blue of India!

I think we live only through our dreams and our imagination.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century.

You gotta have style to get up in the morning

We are not looking for endless variety
we are looking for fashion.

Chutney is marvelous. I'm mad about it. To me, it's very imperial.

People who eat white bread have no dreams.

Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born.

If it's not there in fashion, fantasize it,

I like to indulge myself by sitting up late without having to do anything in the morning.

Maintainence is elegance. Diana Vreeland. vogue magazine 1984.

The hottest thing in the world is to wear pants with stockings.

Without emotion there is no beauty

You've got to have style, it helps you get out of bed in the morning.

The only thing people are interested in is people.

You can see and feel everything in clothes.

I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read.

Balenciaga was incredibleI was madly infatuated with his clothes. His clothes were devastating. One fainted. One simply blew up and died.

Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring.

I adore artifice. I always have.

The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb.

To be contented - that's for the cows.

I think allure is something around you, like a perfume or like a scent. It's like a memory ... it pervades.

This is a weakness of the world. Someone thinks they've discovered something for the first time. They want to be authoritative about it.

Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation.

I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor.

I was always sort of a loner, I suppose. I always had to think out everything for myself ... I suppose that is what you call a loner.

Naturally, I've always been mad about clothes. You don't get born in Paris to forget about clothes for a minute.

I went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted.

What sells is hope.

Fragrances fill the senses with the mysterious.

In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room - no other woman existed.

We all need a splash of bad taste. No taste is what I am against.

All creations demand greenery of spirt.

The personality is a work of art.

The body must stay fit. Fit people like themselves much better.

For goodness sakes, beware of curls ... It is a great art to do them so that the girls not only look modern - but do not suddenly look very vulgar.

Parents, you know, can be terrible.

You're not supposed to give people what they want, you're supposed to give them what they don't know that they want yet.

A world without leopards, well, who would want to live in it?

Never worry about the facts. Just project an image to the public.

Truth is a hell of a big point with me. Now I exaggerate - always.

Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.

Photographers aren't artists, for goodness sake.

I have always felt that the only great thing about an interview is the questions that are asked.

I've always had such wonderful opportunities, but I never made the effort, haven't put on the pressure. But I never took them.

Unshined shoes are the end of civilization.

The best thing about London is Paris,

Lighting is everything in a color.

I've always remained totally myself, which is to say, without an idea ... of what to do.

I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering.

I sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself.

I've never met a leopard print I didn't like.

There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.

If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.

Too much good taste can be boring

You gotta have style. It helps you get down the stairs. It helps you get up in the morning. It's a way of life. Without it, you're nobody.

The first rule that a geisha is taught, at the age of nine, is to be charming to other women ... Every girl in the world should have geisha training.

Black is the hardest color in the world to get right-except for gray ...

I have a terrible time remembering exactly when my birthday is. Age is totally boring ...

Still, my dream in life is to come home and think of absolutely nothing. After all, you can't think all the time.

Exaggeration is my only reality.

I once heard someone say, I shall die very young. How young? I don't know. Maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.

I mean, a new dress doesn't get you anywhere; it's the life you're living in the dress.

I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.

Pink is the navy blue of India.

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.

When fashion turns over it brings in little tiny creaks and cracks. This is the fascination and that is where you have to watch every step.

This is a great shame, but of course there have to be some things in life that not everybody can have, and great perfume is one of them.

This world without a leopard ... I mean, who would want to be here?!

Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.

You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.

The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.

Where would fashion be without literature?

I'm for everybody. There are no set rules. But if one's not a joiner. To hell with all of them!

Don't look left nor right and never compete. Never. Watching the other guy is what kills all forms of energy.

Of course I was always mad about the ballet russe, mad about it!

Power has got to be the most intoxicating thing in the world - and of all forms of power the most intoxicating is fame.

I think your imagination is your reality

The way to judge a good hand is that the fingers are the same size at the tip as where they come out of the hand itself.

No one cuts backs like he did. No one knows what a back is anymore.

Water is God's tranquilizer,

It's only intelligent to wish to look after yourself properly.

The future holds a golden world. It will be for beauty; it will be for intelligent productiveness.

No one knows how hard one works.

How boring to copy the past
with all the magnificence of today and tomorrow.