Without Elegance Of The Heart, There Is

Without Elegance Of The Heart, There Is No Elegance.

A Designer Who Is Not Also A Couturier, Who Hasn't Learned The Most Refined Mysteries Of Physically Creating His Models, Is Like A Sculptor Who Gives His Drawings To Another Man, An Artisan, To Accomplish.

I Find Men's Clothing Fascinating Because Sometime Between, Say, 1930 And 1936 A Handful Of Basic Shapes Were Created And Still Prevail As A Sort Of Scale Of Expression, With Which Every Man Can Project His Own Personality And His Own Dignity.

I Don't At All Search For An Ideal Woman, But Several Ideal Women.

I Participated In The Transformation Of My Era. I Did It With Clothes, Which Is Surely Less Important Than Music, Architecture, Painting But Whatever It's Worth I Did It.