I adore that pink! It’s the navy blue of India!

Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren’t delicious any more.

No one cuts backs like he did. No one knows what a back is anymore.

Poor, darling fellow – he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

People who eat white bread have no dreams.

The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell- unquestionably. You just couldn’t take a bad picture of those two old girls.

Beauty is in all beings that love and are loved, animals and children, and if older women have it, it is because they feel completely free in this world and in their lives as they...

[Balenciaga] did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren’t delicious any more.

A funny person is funny only for so long, but a wit can sit down and go on being spellbinding forever. One is not meant to laugh. One stays quiet and marvels. Spontaneously witty talk...

What do I think about the way most people dress? Most people are not something one thinks about.

I adore fringe.

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you’ve got that, the rest really comes from it.

We are not looking for endless variety–we are looking for fashion.” February 10, 1967, Memo re HAIR ON SITTINGS

Poor, darling fellow-he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.

too much good taste can be boring.

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

He knows the secrets of the sea, of the woods and of the vineyard. They are simple and natural worlds, beautiful and varied. He prefers them to the concrete and hard worlds built by other...

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity

Pink is the navy blue of India.

I always wear my sweater back-to-front; it is so much more flattering.

In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room-no other woman existed.