I have a name, I have to take advantage of it.

The dress is a vase which the body follows. My clothes are like modules in which bodies move.

When I finish with one thing very well, I start some other thing. I don't like to stop. I like to continually prove myself.

My old vintage designs are so popular now. I must have been on to something.

The jean! The jean is the destructor. It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity! The jean must be stopped!

I can go all over the world with just three outfits: a blue blazer and gray flannel pants, a gray flannel suit, and black tie.

We undress men and women, we don't dress them any more.

They said pret-a-porter will kill your name, and it saved me

I wash with my own soap-wear my own perfume...got to bed on my own sheets... have my own food products. I live on me.

I do not believe there has ever been a name as important as Pierre Cardin in the general history of couture.

My name is more important than myself.

Our power lies in our small daily choices, one after another, to create eternal ripples of a life well lived.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.

There is a lot of silence in watching somebody trying to remember things.

I don't know if I believe in luck. I think I'm very fortunate.

My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out.

If I had a soul, I’d probably wind up in hell anyway.

Rights are either God-given or evolve out of the democratic process. Most rights are based on the ability of people to agree on a social contract, the ability to make and keep agreements.

He who flees will fight again.

How real is history? Is it just an enormous soup so full of disparate ingredients that it is uncharacterizable?