My name is more important than myself.

The dress is a vase which the body follows. My clothes are like modules in which bodies move.

When I finish with one thing very well, I start some other thing. I don't like to stop. I like to continually prove myself.

My old vintage designs are so popular now. I must have been on to something.

The jean! The jean is the destructor. It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity! The jean must be stopped!

I can go all over the world with just three outfits: a blue blazer and gray flannel pants, a gray flannel suit, and black tie.

We undress men and women, we don't dress them any more.

They said pret-a-porter will kill your name, and it saved me

I wash with my own soap-wear my own perfume...got to bed on my own sheets... have my own food products. I live on me.

I do not believe there has ever been a name as important as Pierre Cardin in the general history of couture.

I was very lucky, I was part of the post-war period when everything had to be redone.

General good is the plea of the scoundrel hypocite flatterer.

Indolence and stupidity are first cousins.

I have the feeling that I know who I am, only I'm not anymore.

The American system itself is incapable. It is as incapable of producing freedom for the Afro-American as the system of a chicken is of producing a duck egg.

Human material existence is limited by ideas, not stuff, people don't need copper wires they need ways to communicate, oil was a contaminant, then it became a fuel

All of our theology must eventually become biography.

I don't enjoy any kind of danger or volatility. I don't have that kind of 'I love the bad guys' thing. No, no thank you. I like nice people.

I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.

A mistaken thought may be corrected easily, but an errant affection is nearly unmanageable.

I am inclined to put the zenith of success-the time of most consideration and public labor -as somewhere in the sixties, say from sixty-five to seventy.