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"I'm a mild man, but I have violent tastes."

"I wanted to be considered a good craftsman. I wanted my dresses to be constructed like buildings, molded to the curves of the female form, stylizing its shape."

"Women, with their sure instincts, realized that my intention was to make them not just more beautiful but also happier."

"Bright reds – scarlet, pillar-box red, crimson or cherry – are very cheerful and youthful."

"I know very well the women. The short skirt was never a good fashion — very vulgar. The American women will accept the new fashions. You can never stop the fashions."

"My mother whom I adored, secretly wasted away and died of grief…; her death…marked me for life."

"Dior is that nimble genius unique to our age with the magical name - combining God and gold ."

"I used to have frequent arguments with my father which ended in doors slamming and the ultimate expletive ‘Filthy bougeois’"

"In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable."

"Come on, do it. You are good and I believe in you."

"The Dior display suddenly made me nostalgic for France. What was before me was so clearly more refined than the other displays. And it stood out in my memory. Later when I was given the chance to buy …"

"I think I would be more suited to the couture side of the business!"

"Christian, however, was fortunate having a paternal grandmother who realized very early that this child was very different from his brothers and sisters, if only physically. Raymond was a fighter, Jac…"

"In Shirley Miles O'Donnol American Costume 1915-1970: A Source Book for the Stage Costumer, Indiana University Press, 22 August 1989, p. 153"

"We went from losses to goods seized by creditors, while continuing to organize surrealist or abstract exhibitions…"

"We were emerging from the period of war, of uniforms, of women-soldiers built like boxers. I drew women-flowers, soft shoulders, fine waists like liana and wide skirts like corolla."

"With his rotund ecclesiastical side, Dior was like a cathedral, a repository of countless secrets no one else had access to."

"Magic...was what everyone wanted from Paris. Never has there been a moment more climatically right for a Napoleon, An Alexander the Great, a Caesar of Couture. Paris fashion was waiting to be seized a…"

"If my poor maman had still been alive, I would never have tried"

"He was very fond of his grandmother, who came to live not far from the family when she sold her home in Angers. She brought with her the handsome Napolean III drawing-room suite with empire chairs tha…"

"the most popular and the most convenient and the most elegant of all colors."

"My dream is to save women from nature."

"Colour is what gives jewels their worth. They light up and enhance the face. Nothing is more elegant than a black skirt and sweater worn with a sparkling multi-stoned necklace."

"We were witness to a revolution in fashion and a revolution in showing fashion as well."

"It is unforgivable to do what one doesn't love especially if one succeeds."

"This was certainly at the root of my intense dislike of machinery, and my firm determination never to work in an office or anything of that nature."

"Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40, after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely."

"Much has been written about fashion, in all its aspects, but i do not think any couturier has ever before attempted to compile a dictionary on the subject."

"It is quite a revolution, dear Christian. Your dresses have such a new look. They are quite wonderful you know."

"Dior is like a big adolescent with old- fashioned shyness of as schoolboy and most charming in his childish awkwardness."

"In 1957, he was consecrated on the cover of Times. The Consensus was that the House of Dior was in a class of its own."

"Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest."

"You can wear black at any time. You can wear it at any age. You may wear it for almost any occasion; a 'little black frock' is essential to a woman's wardrobe."

"We were given a polished theatrical performance such as we had never seen in a couture house before"

"His greatest delight was in dreaming up a new costume, a talent he displayed early on. .. One year he transformed his sister into King Neptune with a bodice made of shells and raffia skirt …Never with…"

"Many people dismiss haute couture as being something that is only for those who are very wealthy... simplicity, good taste, and grooming are the three fundamentals of good dressing and these do not co…"

"He gave no sign of any great desire to persevere with music or painting, despite his obvious eye for the latter. The idea of creativity obsessed but not to the point of renouncing his spectator status…"

"A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body."

"A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting."

"Every year Dior would present a new line – from Oval to Oblique to the Scissors look."

"Misfortune did not make him a poor man, and actually taught him a great deal."