"Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola."
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"The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it."
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"You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive."
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"The bikini is the most important thing since the atom bomb."
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"The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell - unquestionably. You just couldn't take a bad picture of those two old girls"
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"A world without leopards, well, who would want to live in it?"
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"There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself."
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"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."
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"Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal."
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"The first thing to do is to arrange to be born in Paris. After that, everything follows quite naturally."
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"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."
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"I sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself."
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"Too much good taste can be very boring. Independent style, on the other hand, can be very inspiring."
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"The best thing about London is Paris."
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"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."
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"Exaggeration is my only reality."
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"Without emotion there is no beauty"
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"A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste-it's hearty, it's healthy, it's physical. I think we could use more of it. No taste is what I'm against."
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"I think when you’re young you should be a lot with yourself and your sufferings. Then one day you get out where the sun shines and the rain rains and the snow snows and it all comes together."
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"I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity."
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