A good model can advance fashion by ten years.

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We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.

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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.

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I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

149

It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.

149

Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.

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Dressing is a way of life.

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I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

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