Giorgio Armani Quotes

Paris is one of my favorite cities, but Paris during Fashion Week is everything!

It might shock you, but I haven't been to that many fashion shows, and I'd never done a commissioned piece for a fashion house.

I very much wanted to live in Paris when I was in the army, and I was quite determined to. I could have become a dress designer: Dior was willing to take me on as an assistant, but he did not have an immediate vacancy.

For me, haute couture is a necessity. I never would have done this job were it not for haute couture. It is a comfort, a security. I almost feel it is our duty to continue. Haute couture is France. We have to keep all the skills and craftmanship alive.

Karl Lagerfeld never touched a pair of scissors in his life.

One of my dreams is to walk down the runway during Fashion Week!

Yeah, that's what I'm working for. The couture house of the future.

Paris is one of the fashion capitals of the world and such an incredible breeding ground for designers. You can't help but find it an inspiring place.

I am still in love with couture because it is just two months from drawing pad to runway so everything on the catwalk is hot from the oven.

I have a really good relationship with a lot of designers. I like Gaultier, Billionaire and Cavalli.

I just want to make beautiful, glamorous clothes.

I'm not a typical couturier, although I really respect them.

I've never tried to do couture, because it's a whole different beast.

The first fashion show I ever attended was for Ritu Beri in 1997 or 1998. I think that was the first time Ritu had designed for one of my movies 'Yeh Raastein Hain Pyaar Ke.' She had done a show in Paris, and she had done the same show in Delhi. It was very eclectic, and I love the way she combines colours and makes them flamboyant.

In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.

I'm always fetishizing the French woman and French taste and style. My assistant will make fun of me because every time we're picking the direction of a collection, I say the same thing: 'I want it to be really French.'

Fashion is an illusion. It's a multibillion-pound industry that has to appear frivolous. Designers work and work and work, all night sometimes.

Paris is always a good idea.

My dream jobs would be Italian 'Vogue' and anything with Chanel!

I went to Brown to be a French professor, and I didn't know what I was doing except that I loved French. When I got to Paris and I could speak French, I know how much it helped me to establish relationships with Karl Lagerfeld, with the late Yves St. Laurent. French, it just helps you if you're in fashion. The French people started style.

I've never been in New York for the whole time of Fashion Week.

I enjoy seeing how my friends - Proenza Schouler, Zac Posen, Rodarte - use clothes to create their vision and art.

Living in Paris was a crash course in chic.

I began coming to Paris in the 1960s when I was told audiences here liked my work. More than 20 of my plays have been produced in Paris, and several have had long runs and have returned in revivals.

I never expected to be a model. I never expected to be a stylist. Or a designer.