Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked ‘female’

Red is the great clarifier – bright and revealing. I can’t imagine becoming bored with red – it would be like becoming bored with the person you love.

A little bad taste is like a nice splash of paprika. We all need a splash of bad taste-it’s hearty, it’s healthy, it’s physical. I think we could use more of it. No taste is what I’m against.

Don’t look back. Just go ahead. Give ideas away. Under every idea there’s a new idea waiting to be born.

I’ve never met a leopard print I didn’t like.

This is a weakness of the world. Someone thinks they’ve discovered something for the first time. They want to be authoritative about it.

You don’t have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.

You gotta have style to get up in the morning.

Where Chanel came from in France is anyone’s guess. She said one thing one day and another thing the next. She was a peasant – and a genius. Peasants and geniuses are the only people who count and she was both.

There was a time when it was considered vulgar and unnecessary to pursue money, but today anyone who doesn’t believe in money must be out of their minds!