Elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care and simplicity. Outside this, believe me, there is no elegance. Only pretension.

Individuality will always be one of the conditions of real elegance

After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.

Simplicity, good taste and grooming are the three fundamentals of good dressing and these do not cost money.

Deep in every heart slumbers a dream and the couturier knows it: every woman is a princess

A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

Real elegance is everywhere, especially in the things that don't show.

By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.

My dream? To make women happier and more beautiful.

Real woman should be capricious.

It is not money that makes you well dressed: it is understanding.

The darkest part of the storm paints the brightest part of the rainbow.

We have all at one time been stranded on islands shouting lies across the seas of misunderstanding, hoping the fog will carry our mischief to the distant ports in people’s minds.

I get the feeling that sometimes the ideas work very well when you're doing them in the studio alone.

Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries.

This is all about a media war that continues to rage between the old and new media. Unfortunately for our soldiers, these brave Americans are caught in the crossfire

Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.

Touring can be tough; the crew and I travel everywhere by a big pink bus, and live in petrol stations.

I wanted to make sure to always stay current, try to find new material and stay with the modern techniques.

Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest.

[perfectionism leads to] a tendency to apologize preemptively for one's efforts, knowing from experience that there's sure to be something wrong with them.