"We must never confuse elegance with snobbery."
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"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."
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"Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?"
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"I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it's worth I did it."
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"I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside."
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"Fashions fade, style is eternal."
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"Fashions pass quickly, and nothing is more pathetic than those puppets of fashion outrageously made up one day, pale the next, pleated or ironed stiff, libertine or ascetic. Playing with fashion is an art. The first rule is don't burn your wings."
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"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."
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"My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees."
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"Moda je prolazna, dok stil traje, on je večan."
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"The street and me is a love story. 1971 is a great date because, finally, fashion took to the street."
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"Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society's struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful."
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"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."
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"A good model can advance fashion by ten years."
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"I always believed that style was more important than fashion. They are rare, those who imposed their style while fashion makers are so numerous."
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"Anyone who reaches for great expression has to be careful of the ridiculous."
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"A designer who is not also a couturier, who hasn't learned the most refined mysteries of physically creating his models, is like a sculptor who gives his drawings to another man, an artisan, to accomplish."
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"There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion."
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"No more rules, the freedom of dressing. The beauty of mixing vintage clothes with a pair of jeans that I love."
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"Elegance is no longer significant; clothes have to be fun."
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