I tell myself that I created the wardrobe of the contemporary woman, that I participated in the transformation of my times.
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I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
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