Fashions fade - style is eternal.
My favorite thing is a black sweater and skirt, which you can wear all the time by changing the accessories.
I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
When I was young in the 1960s, all the world watched the youth. Everywhere was the sensation of wanting to break the chains but to do something beautiful. It is my privilege to have beauty always near me.
Basic clothes are for all women, to last for decades and decades. They are the future and will never change. I am persuaded of that.
My classmates could see I was not similar. So they made me their scapegoat. They hit me or locked me in the toilets. During the break, I would take refuge in the chapel, or I would arrange to stay alone in the classroom.
I want to give haute couture a kind of wink, a sense of humour - to introduce the whole sense of freedom one sees in the street into high fashion; to give couture the same provocative and arrogant look as punk - but, of course, with luxury and dignity and style.
The big difference between couture and ready-to-wear is not design. It is the fabrics, the handwork, and the fittings. The act of creation is the same.
I wanted women to have the same basic wardrobe as a man. Blazer, trousers, and suit. They're so functional. I believed women wanted this and was right.
I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
Good clothing is a passport to happiness.
I had noticed men were much more confident in their clothes. So I sought through trouser suits, trench coats, tuxedos, and pea coats to give women the same confidence.
We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.
I tell myself that I created the wardrobe of the contemporary woman, that I participated in the transformation of my times.
I am very happy to design haute couture. It's a love story between couture and me.
Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and, also, old films.
I'm not deceived by people, because I don't pay attention to people.
I do not decide that skirts shall be short or long. The shape of the dress itself often dictates the length.
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.
