“My reason for choosing diamonds is that, dense as they are, they represent the greatest worth in the smallest volume.”

 “Scheherazade is easy; a little black dress is difficult.”

 “A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion.”


 “I was the one who changed, it wasn’t fashion. I was the one who was in fashion.”

“A woman has the age she deserves.”

“I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.”

 “Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.”

 “Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.”

 “I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and innateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.”

 “There are people who have money and people who are rich.”

 “A woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed.”

 “The best color in the whole world; is the one that looks good on you.”

 “A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”

“Fashion passes, style remains.”


“Fashion is not simply a matter of clothes. Fashion is in the air, born upon the wind. One intuits it. It is in the sky and on the road.” 

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