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No one cuts backs like he did. No one knows what a back is anymore.
You've got to have style, it helps you get out of bed in the morning.
Black is the hardest color in the world to get right-except for gray.
My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.
Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'
I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering.
I certainly didn't learn anything in school. My education was the world.
Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.
Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world.
In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room - no other woman existed.
If it isn't a passion, it isn't burning, it isn't on fire, you haven't lived.
How boring to copy the past -- with all the magnificence of today and tomorrow.
There’s only one thing in life, and that’s the continual renewal of inspiration.
It’s not about the dress you wear, but it’s about the life you lead in the dress.
Money has nothing to do with style at all, but naturally it helps every situation.
I went to work to make money, not because I was bored. It was money that I wanted.
Before even the technique, there is a dream. Chanel had it. The dream is everything.
Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.
Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.
I have a terrible time remembering exactly when my birthday is. Age is totally boring.
I mean, a new dress doesn't get you anywhere; it's the life you're living in the dress.
I've always remained totally myself, which is to say, without an idea... of what to do.
I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead
The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
I like to indulge myself by sitting up late without having to do anything in the morning.
Within every girl is the possibility of arousing emotion. Without emotion there is no beauty.
I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read.
I'm for everybody. There are no set rules. But if one's not a joiner. To hell with all of them!
There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.
What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.
I have always felt that the only great thing about an interview is the questions that are asked.
The future holds a golden world. It will be for beauty; it will be for intelligent productiveness.
Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring.
No one had a better sense of luxury than Coco Chanel, She really had the spirit of the 20th Century.
A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever.
The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally.
Don't look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there's a new idea waiting to be born.
I think allure is something around you, like a perfume or like a scent. It's like a memory ... it pervades.
Don't look left nor right and never compete. Never. Watching the other guy is what kills all forms of energy.
If you think all the time every day of your life, you might as well kill yourself today and be happier tomorrow.
Naturally, I’ve always been mad about clothes. You don’t get born in Paris to forget about clothes for a minute.
Still, my dream in life is to come home and think of absolutely nothing. After all, you can’t think all the time.
I sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself.
Power has got to be the most intoxicating thing in the world—and of all forms of power the most intoxicating is fame.
Most people haven't got a point of view; they need to have it given to them––and what's more, they expect it from you.
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.
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.
I think i always had a perfectly clear view of what was possible for the public. "Give'em what they never knew they wanted".
I've always had such wonderful opportunities, but I never made the effort, haven't put on the pressure. But I never took them.
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.