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"All my life I’ve pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It’s exactly as if I’d said, ‘I want rococo with a spot of Gothic in it and a bit of Buddhist temple’—they have no idea what I’m talking about. About the best red is to copy the color of a child’s cap in any Renaissance portrait."
"One thing I hold against Americans is that they have no flair for the rain. They seem unsettled by it; it's against them: they take it as an assault, an inconvenience! But rain is so wonderfully cleansing, so refreshing, so calming..."
"If it's not there in fashion, fantasize it."
"Balenciaga was incredibleI was madly infatuated with his clothes. His clothes were devastating. One fainted. One simply blew up and died."
"When I arrived in America, I had these very dark red nails which some people objected to, but then some people object to absolutely everything."
"I read everything! I would have read the phone book if you put it in front of me. I just read."
"Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'"
"The future holds a golden world. It will be for beauty; it will be for intelligent productiveness."
"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 body must stay fit. Fit people like themselves much better."
"A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One is not meant to laugh. One stays quiet and marvels. Spontaneously witty talk is without question the most fascinating entertainment there is."
"This world without a leopard…I mean, who would want to be here?!"
"Pink is the navy blue of India."
"Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table."
"I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering."
"Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring."
"Don't look left nor right and never compete. Never. Watching the other guy is what kills all forms of energy."
"God was fair to the Japanese. He gave them no oil, no coal, no diamonds, no gold, no natural resources — nothing! Nothing comes from the island that you can sustain a civilization on. What God gave the Japanese was a sense of style—maintained through the centuries through hard work and the disciplines of ambition."
"Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more."
"I wasn't a fashion editor. I was the one and only fashion editor."