Elegance Is No Longer Significant; Clothes Have

I Am No Longer Concerned With Sensation And Innovation, But With The Perfection Of My Style.

Chanel Freed Women, And I Empowered Them.

Blue Jeans? They Should Be Worn By Farm Girls Milking Cows!

I Tried To Show That Fashion Is An Art. For That, I Followed The Counsel Of My Master Christian Dior And The Imperishable Lesson Of Mademoiselle Chanel. I Created For My Era And I Tried To Foresee What Tomorrow Would Be.

I Pass For A Hypersensitive, Reclusive Neurotic, Which I May Well Be, But I Hope The Year Won't Come When My Anxieties And Fatigue Will Destroy My Love Of This Life, Of All The Things That Inspire Me--a Line Of Music, A Face In A Vermeer Portrait, A Character In An Opera, Or A Model Born In Harlem.