Chanel liberated women: Saint Laurent gave them power..

You flatter me shamelessly. I like it. Good..

To take part in the African revolution, it is not enough to write a revolutionary song. You must fashion the revolution with the people. And if you f….

On my own account I certainly wouldn't have become the director of a couture house. I didn't have sufficient admiration for fashion as such to have d….

I grill, therefore I am..

We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find..

The more you invest in your happiness, the more happiness will invest in you..

I have a family to feed..

Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more..

To do or not to do... that is the question..

I had a Vincent van Gogh, a small Provençal landscape. We sold it. If you're going to have a van Gogh it should be a really good van Gogh..

Good fashion is evolution, not revolution..

Whoever excommunicates me, excommunicates God..

Marriage is not comfortable and harmonious. Rather it is a place of individuation where a person rubs up against oneself and against the partner, bum….

But as you say in English, c'est la vie!.

The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent. [Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et for….

The public be damned..

Strength is for service, not status.

Get it right in your head - and you'll get it right in your life..

I'd much rather resign than be pushed..

I keep everything that's private private..