Shocking Life

She is unpredictable but, in reality, disarmingly simple. She is profoundly lazy but works furiously and rapidly. Her laughter and tears collide; on a job of work she is fun, soaring from despair to heavenly delight. She is generous and mean, for there are occasions when she would rather give away half her possessions than the handkerchief in her hand-bag.

If she is charming she can also be the most hateful person in the world. She is aware of this but cannot help it.

Flattery and small talk bore her, and she has never understood how anybody can consider life an achievement in itself.

I brought bad news to Joan Crawford when I told her to cut her shoulders down and stop wearing sequins.

clothes had to be architectural: that the body must never be forgotten and it must be used as a frame is used in a building. The vagaries of lines and details or any asymmetric effect must always have a close connection with this frame. The more the body is respected, the better the dress acquires vitality.

The way is open to everybody who has the will, the ambition, the respect for work, and the IT.

A dress has no life of its own unless it is worn, and as soon as this happens another personality takes over from you and animates it, or tries to, glorifies or destroys it, or makes it into a song of beauty. More often it becomes an indifferent object, or even a pitiful caricature of what you wanted it to be – a dream, an expression.

It was then that I met Paul Poiret, whom I greatly admired and considered the greatest artist of his time

She is unpredictable but, in reality, disarmingly simple. She is profoundly lazy but works furiously and rapidly. Her laughter and tears collide; on a job of work she is fun, soaring from despair to heavenly delight. She is generous and mean, for there are occasions when she would rather give away half her possessions than the handkerchief in her hand-bag.

Here are the houses of the hand-to-mouth people.