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"I find men's clothing fascinating because sometime between, say, 1930 and 1936 a handful of basic shapes were created and still prevail as a sort of scale of expression, with which every man can project his own personality and his own dignity."
"I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style."
"For me, perfume, must be adapted to fashion, not the other way around."
"Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!"
"[Fashion is] a kind of vitamin for style."
"I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something."
"I don't really like knees."
"I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance."
"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."
"I'm so secluded. Very alone."
"Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films."
"I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy."
"It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic by fashion."
"Fashion is defined by what later becomes out of fashion."
"I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country."
"I cannot pretend to do sculpture and make a woman the ridiculous pedestal of my pretensions. To render clothing poetic, yes--but one must preserve its dignity as clothing."
"I don't at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women."
"I like to watch the way a model moves in my clothes, the way she gives them life, or if they are wrong, stillborn, the way her life rejects them."
"Elegance and beauty have been banished."
"I don't like [to] make a woman ... an abstract concept of the fashion. I don't like [to] say, "You must wear that." ... I am not a dictator."