“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.”
“Fashions fade, but style is eternal.”
“We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.”
“A good model can advance fashion by ten years.”
“It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.”
“I knew the youthfulness of the sixties: Talitha and Paul Getty lying on a starlit terrace in Marrakesh, beautiful and damned, and a whole generation assembled as if for eternity where the curtain of the past seemed to lift before an extraordinary future.”