It gives you a good feeling. Each year, you rediscover in a garden the magic of life. A flower arrives, and it is a miracle. The leaves fall in the autumn, and it looks fantastic. There is a tenderness about a garden, and you can't help but be sensitive to that.
You must, if it's possible, be born with a kind of elegance. It's part of you, of yourself.
Life is like a book: one has to know when to turn the page.
If you want to express yourself, it is difficult to be by yourself. You must have people around you who understand the same music. It is like being the chef d'orchestra. They need you, but you need them desperately.
As time passes, we like to simplify our lives.
Encouragement helps you to go one step more, become better.
It's the most beautiful job in the world to give happiness to people.
To have lived your dream is very rare in life. I am a very happy man. I have been so fortunate.
To be a couture designer is not only to create dresses but to adapt your line to your private customers. It is why couture is expensive. You are like a doctor.
People say I am a classic designer. I don't try to be classic, but I do try to be simple and elegant.
When you see the best of the best - when you see a Matisse or a Picasso - what interests you is the creativity and harmony.
It is important to work. It is important for my mind.
Fabric is the most extraordinary thing; it has life. You must respect the fabric.
I had this creativity always with this will for perfection, and I always said to myself, 'Look for what's best.' 'That's your goal, your driving principle.'
Always I remember when I am young, I ask my mother, 'I really want to be a dress designer.' In that time, was quite difficult because, you know, my family always criticize me for it not to be a man's job.
Like in great painting and architecture, in couture, to make clothes you must eliminate, eliminate, eliminate to obtain the true sense of a line. You see, the more you add, the more you load on, the more it's mad. You must try to have just the silhouette, which is an intelligence in clothes.
A piece of material has a life. You must never upset it if you want the material to speak.
I love to dance, and I love to see people dance. It is good exercise. It gives you a kind of energy.
My mother was a beautiful lady, elegant, chic, and that was the biggest inspiration to me.
Balenciaga was my religion. Since I'm a believer, for me, there's Balenciaga, and the good Lord.
