Designer Quotes

It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

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.

I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

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 am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

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.

I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.

A good model can advance fashion by ten years.

Dressing is a way of life.

We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.

Fashions fade, style is eternal.

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 don't think women should look like costumes. I don't think they should look like fashion victims. I think these (clothes) are for women that want to look sexy. They want to look smart.

It's the kind of clothes that mothers and daughters can wear, in terms of concept... It's not about age. It's about taste, and it's about lifestyle. I believe women of all ages can wear anything.

I think the accessories look very modern and very exciting. These big earrings, these big hoops. I think the girls are sort of falling in love with... collars, neck collars.

They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes. They shouldn't look like fashion victims.

People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.

I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

I never - you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

I love dogs, but dogs, you have to be in the country with dogs. I cannot walk a dog on the street.

I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

What I hate is nasty, ugly people.

There's something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.

T-shirts for ten dollars are even more fashion today than expensive fashion.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

Buy clothes the size you want to wear.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.