"Saint-Laurent has excellent taste. The more he copies me, the better taste he displays."

"Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics."

"I freed women. I gave them back their bodies, which were shapeless from the corsetry and the padding. I gave them real waists, and I gave them back their legs."

"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening."

"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."