Christian Dior Quotes

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

“Make me a fragrance that smells like love.”

“After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.”

“My dream? To make women happier and more beautiful.”

“Grooming is the secret of real elegance. The best clothes, the most wonderful jewels, the most glamorous beauty don't count without good grooming.”

“Simplicity, good taste and grooming are the three fundamentals of good dressing and these do not cost money.”

“I drew women-flowers, soft shoulders, fine waists like liana, and wide skirts like corolla.”

“Deep in every heart slumbers a dream and the couturier knows it: every woman is a princess.”

“Without proper foundations, there can be no fashion.”

“Real woman should be capricious.”

“Individuality will always be one of the conditions of real elegance.”

“Long after one has forgotten what a woman wore, the memory of her perfume lingers.”

“In an epoch as somber as ours, luxury must be defended inch by inch.”

“I turned them into flowers, with soft shoulders, blooming bosoms, waists slim as vine stems, and skirts opening up like blossoms.”

“What can I tell you of my house? How can one speak of the present and what one lives for? My firm is, in fact, the whole of my life.”

“Fashion designers offer one of the last refuges of the marvelous. They are, in a way, the masters of dreams.”

“I designed clothes for flower-like women, with rounded shoulders, full feminine busts, and hand-span waists above enormous spreading skirts.”

“I believe it was due to the fact that I brought back the neglected art of pleasing.”

“He taught me the essential. Then came other influences that, because he had taught me the essential, blended into this essential and found it to be a wonderful and prolific terrain, the necessary seeds that would allow me to assert myself, grow strong, blossom, and finally exude my own universe.”

“Dior doesn't dress women. He upholsters them.”