People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey.

I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.

Elegance is a question of personality, more than one's clothing.

What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway? Why should men not show that they can be fragile or seductive? I am only happy when there is no discrimination.

Fashion is about what you look like, which translates to what you would like to be like.

It's always the badly dressed people who are the most interesting.

It is beautiful to be what you are.

There are many kinds of beauty, and you can find it where you least expect.

I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life.

Designers are to be in connection with what's happening with the movement of society.

I don't know exactly what is my impact, but I can say I am doing fashion my own way.

He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.

When you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say.

The greatest effects we have on the world are the ones we can never see.

Hope is a dangerous thing, Raisa thought. Once kindled, it's hard to put out. It makes wise people into fools.

It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format

People who know me well, call me Elizabeth. I dislike Liz.

Plans are things that change.

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

It is not permissible to lie merely to save one's face. But it is sometimes permissible to lie to save another person's face.

When we exhale, a tree breathes in.