Elegance Is No Longer Significant; Clothes Have

A Woman's Wardrobe Shouldn't Change Every Six Months. You Should Be Able To Use The Pieces You Already Own And Add To Them. Because They Are Like Timeless Classics.

There Are Women Who Have Completely Transformed My View Of Fashion And If I Hadn't Shown Them I Would Never Have Arrived At This Point In Fashion, You See.

Decadence Attracts Me. It Suggests A New World, And, For Me, Society's Struggle Between Life And Death Is Absolutely Beautiful.

I Pass For A Hypersensitive, Reclusive Neurotic, Which I May Well Be, But I Hope The Year Won't Come When My Anxieties And Fatigue Will Destroy My Love Of This Life, Of All The Things That Inspire Me--a Line Of Music, A Face In A Vermeer Portrait, A Character In An Opera, Or A Model Born In Harlem.

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 Created For My Era And I Tried To Foresee What Tomorrow Would Be.