As a slave [to fashion], I can be very dramatic and very demanding of myself and of the people I work with.

How can you live the high life if you do not wear the high heels?

Perfume follows you; it chases you and lingers behind you. It's a reference mark. Perfume makes silence talk.

You can create fashion everywhere in the world, but the place where you are crowned is Paris.

Perfume is like a parenthesis, a moment of freedom, peace, love and sensuality in between the disturbances of modern living.

It doesn't matter one damn bit whether fashion is art or not. You don't question whether an incredible chef is an artist or not-his cakes are delicious and that's all that matters.

I don't like women who are multiform, who wear many different shapes. Women who retain a unique shape are usually unique people.

The essence of seduction for me in a man, although it stems from his rough, almost rough-neck looks, still contains something of the woman: he must be seductive and intelligent.

I think in the darkest moments, we need a break.

Being one step ahead of a fashion trend is not so important to me. What matters is to always forge ahead.

I was rather free, and I always did what I wanted to do, sometimes without listening to the people who warned me not to do this or that.

To become a better you, secure your dreams from the jaws of people who discredit your ambitions.

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall

Man's will, sustained by an indominable conviction, is much more powerful than material forces that seem insurmountable.

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.

For all the women - especially the young women, who put your faith in me - I want you to know that nothing has made me prouder than to be your champion.

Even small cults are a serious cost on the world economy, to victims, their families, employers, friends, and credit-card companies.

If I hadn't become a photographer, I would have loved to become a doctor. I would have loved to have done something that actually helped people and changed their lives.

You can see all kinds of matchups within those teams, but I think it's going to come down to who plays best as a team and is patient.

Grace, not willpower, is what ultimately empowers us to live loving lives. Creativity, both in what spawns within the artist and the artifact, can be a vital source of that grace.

So, then, Oxford Street, stonyhearted stepmother, thou that listenest to the sighs of orphans, and drinkest the tears of children, at length I was dismissed from thee.